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Re: [OS] nvOC easy-to-use Linux Nvidia Mining v0019-1.4
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pzyxian
on 24/01/2018, 14:55:28 UTC
Today I added 2 gtx 1060s to my 2 gtx 1080 ti. Somehow the system got so slow and won't run properly.

With the original 2 gtx 1080 ti my system runs very smoothly.
With the 2 gtx 1060s, when  I typed "top" , All I see the CPU working on is nvidia-smi / and nvidia-settings.

http://take.ms/H5na0
Does the nvOC use a lot more resources when different NV cards are being used?

Here's my system config:

Mobo: MSI z270-SLI Plus
CPU: Celeron G3900
Ram: DDR4, 4GB
USB/HDD: 32GB USB thumb stick
GPUs: 2 x 1080 ti, 2 x 1060

I removed 1x 1060 and it runs fine. with 2 1080ti and 1 1060.

I insert the cards starting from by pcie16 (closest to the CPU first), then pcie1 (also starting from closest to the GPU).

However, when the 4th GPU is inserted into the pcie1x slot, the whole system just lags and won't work. I'll take a look again tomorrow. If you guys have any idea please drop some hints =)

Enable "Above 4G" in the bios of your motherboard. If you already had that set and still experience the problem, change the nvidia driver from 387 to 384. Drop a line if you need help about switching the driver.

Already enabled Above 4G. Will double check as sometimes changing cards or power supplies can mess up my bios.

Also I would need help about switching the driver. Many thanks!
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: [OS] nvOC easy-to-use Linux Nvidia Mining v0019-1.4
by
pzyxian
on 24/01/2018, 04:30:39 UTC
Cannot disable POWERLIMIT

When I set POWERLIMIT="NO" in 1bash, the global power limit and global overclock is still being applied.

I am not sure why as I return the 1bash by closing and starting the terminal. I also tried reboot and still won't work.

Does this happen to others here?



1bash files are located at 2 places, you are probably editing the wrong one.

The first one is located at small 9MB FAT32 partition. It is used to ease the preparation of nvoc for mining. Since this small partition is visible under windows you can edit 1bash while you are still under windows after imaging the nvoc to USB stick or SSD.
Once you boot into nvoc, this 1bash is converted to linux standard and saved into your /home directory under linux on the first boot. After this conversion the 1bash file on that small partition is no longer used.

The second 1bash file, as stated above is in your /home directory. All settings are read from this file. Should you want to make any changes you need to edit and save this file. To access it, just click on the icon with folder sign on the left side of your desktop, it will open your /home directory where you will find 1bash. Edit this file and save it on exit.

Thank you, but I already editing it from the /home directory. I know this because when I edit the WTM settings, they ran as I modified them.
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: [OS] nvOC easy-to-use Linux Nvidia Mining v0019-1.4
by
pzyxian
on 24/01/2018, 00:01:49 UTC
Today I added 2 gtx 1060s to my 2 gtx 1080 ti. Somehow the system got so slow and won't run properly.

With the original 2 gtx 1080 ti my system runs very smoothly.
With the 2 gtx 1060s, when  I typed "top" , All I see the CPU working on is nvidia-smi / and nvidia-settings.

http://take.ms/H5na0
Does the nvOC use a lot more resources when different NV cards are being used?

Here's my system config:

Mobo: MSI z270-SLI Plus
CPU: Celeron G3900
Ram: DDR4, 4GB
USB/HDD: 32GB USB thumb stick
GPUs: 2 x 1080 ti, 2 x 1060

I removed 1x 1060 and it runs fine. with 2 1080ti and 1 1060.

I insert the cards starting from by pcie16 (closest to the CPU first), then pcie1 (also starting from closest to the GPU).

However, when the 4th GPU is inserted into the pcie1x slot, the whole system just lags and won't work. I'll take a look again tomorrow. If you guys have any idea please drop some hints =)
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: [OS] nvOC easy-to-use Linux Nvidia Mining v0019-1.4
by
pzyxian
on 23/01/2018, 23:02:37 UTC
Today I added 2 gtx 1060s to my 2 gtx 1080 ti. Somehow the system got so slow and won't run properly.

With the original 2 gtx 1080 ti my system runs very smoothly.
With the 2 gtx 1060s, when  I typed "top" , All I see the CPU working on is nvidia-smi / and nvidia-settings.

http://take.ms/H5na0
Does the nvOC use a lot more resources when different NV cards are being used?

Here's my system config:

Mobo: MSI z270-SLI Plus
CPU: Celeron G3900
Ram: DDR4, 4GB
USB/HDD: 32GB USB thumb stick
GPUs: 2 x 1080 ti, 2 x 1060
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: [OS] nvOC easy-to-use Linux Nvidia Mining v0019-1.4
by
pzyxian
on 23/01/2018, 21:48:35 UTC
Cannot disable POWERLIMIT

When I set POWERLIMIT="NO" in 1bash, the global power limit and global overclock is still being applied.

I am not sure why as I return the 1bash by closing and starting the terminal. I also tried reboot and still won't work.

Does this happen to others here?

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Re: Zpool.ca: Does it take 20-22% fee?
by
pzyxian
on 17/01/2018, 15:25:23 UTC
So where do you see that MPH sell all of their coins on Poloniex, Bittrex and Yobit?

You have to create an account then you will see the auto exchange option like below:

http://take.ms/UzKcK
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Re: Zpool.ca: Does it take 20-22% fee?
by
pzyxian
on 15/01/2018, 05:19:22 UTC
If you only want to mine a single coin and want to get paid in that coin, go with yiimp.  If you want to try and ride the wave of multiple coins to increase your payout, zpool is the best I have found regardless of what is said here.  I am happy with the daily payouts I get with zpool and I don't have to manage it.  They at least match, but usually beat, estimated payouts for mining a single coin.  When I multi coin mine on yiimp I had to create 10+ wallets on various exchanges, then wait for enough coins to amass to be able to sell them.  Then transferring the BTC back incurred another cost.  All of this is handled in bulk by zpool which reduces cost and time.  To duplicate the number of coins available to mine and manage the exchanging of those coins to BTC, requires a significant amount of time without zpool, in order to get the same payout (in my experience).

But in the end, it's your choice what to do.  As my operation gets larger and I dedicate additional time to it, I may move to yiimp and hold coins longer to catch the rises in the market better.  But currently I don't have the time, so zpool provides a very consistent income that I don't have to manage.

Did anyone do any testing of this or is still testing?  
 

I hear you on the convenience, but I just don't like shady shit.  Be upfront with the fees/costs.  Mining Pool Hub has auto-exchange and can mine multiple coins. They are upfront on exchange fees.

I like the stats and PPS on zpool better since I only have limited mining time each day.  If their info is correct, their profitability seems higher than other pools without much of a reason as to why they are higher that I can tell.

I don't want to mine there for a few days expecting X and getting Y because they are not upfront about exchange fees and I am suckered in with the higher profitability numbers that is why I wanted to see if anyone had given it a try.  

Have you tried the auto exchange on mining pool hub? they say the tx fee is 0.2% but never really mentioned about the exchange fee. They exchange on 3 exchanges (bittrex, yobit, and poloniex). I know on bittrex if you trade it's 0.25% each way. If you mine ZEC and want to exchange for ZCL you will end up getting 0.5% exchange fee. I'm not sure if MPH has any deals with these exchanges such that they can shrink the fees to 0.2% no mater what coin you want to auto exchange for. Or is this 0.2% merely a fee for transferring to and from the exchange, plus whatever exchange fees on top of that.
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: [OS] nvOC easy-to-use Linux Nvidia Mining v0019-1.4
by
pzyxian
on 12/01/2018, 15:13:49 UTC
I tried to mine SIBcoin. However, I see the "Stratum authentication failed" in the screen.

I used all defaults and the pool by default is sib.suprnova.cc:3458, intensity is set to 21.
I didn't modify worker name or anything else.
Suprnova seems to support anonymous mining on some coins (a few equihash ones) However, I'm not sure about SIB coin.  I might need to create an account.

Anyone wanna comment?

nvOC version community 2.0
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: [OS] nvOC easy-to-use Linux Nvidia Mining v0019-1.4
by
pzyxian
on 11/01/2018, 17:05:42 UTC
Awesome support from @damNmad on the discord channel. Should you have any problems, give it a try Smiley

do you have the invite link?
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: nvOC v0019-2.0 Community Release
by
pzyxian
on 10/01/2018, 20:08:33 UTC
nvOC 19-2.0 Community Release Notes:


Code:
Miner Updates/Additions:
  DSTM's Zcash/Equihash Miner v. 0.5.6
  tpruvot/ccminer v. 2.2.3
  krnlx/ccminer-xevan latest
  KlausT/ccminer v. 0.8.15
  Claymore 10.02
  Nanashi ccminer
  Vertminer
  
3main edits :
  Removed the infinite loops and put one at the end to cover all mining blocks (stubo)
  Bug fix for 1050 Ti where pstate3 was not OC'ed (stubo)
  Removed repetitive if LOCAL then "screen -r miner" from each mining block and put one at the end to cover all mining blocks (stubo)
  Added support for BTG
  Added telemetry/api to EWBF and ZM miner launches so that you can hit :42000 to see this miner output (stubo)
  Added the ability to pass in a miner password for all miners that have the "--pass" arg. (stubo)
  Changed instances of "--pass x" and "--pass x"  and "-p x" to "--pass $MINER_PWD" (stubo)
  Changed dstm zm location to "~/zec/zm/latest/" for easier future updates (papampi)
  Changed all miner start scripts to use separate pool and port from 1bash so watchdog can check the pool connection easier (papampi)
  Added log rotate settings (papampi)
  Moved miner start from 3main to 0miner, to make 3main lighter and better handle of miner start (papampi)
  Added auto start miner yes or no ( in case you need to edit or debug the rig) (papampi)
  Bug fix - $pwr_lim_daggerhashimoto5 corrected to $pwr_lim_daggerhashimoto (leenoox)
  Bug fix - INDIVIDUAL settings were applied to GPU's 0-13 only. Fixed to work with 0-18 (leenoox)
  Partial code cleanup (leenoox)

1bash edits:
  Added EWBF_OPTS and ZM_OPTS for telemetry/api to EWBF and ZM miner (stubo)
  Added MINER_PWD for miner passwords (stubo)
  Unified and separated all pool address and pool ports so wdog can check if pool is up or no if needed (papampi)
  Updated contributors list and release name (leenoox)

wdog edits:
  Added check if miner is running or not when utilization dropped to restart miner faster (stubo)
  Added check for internet and wait if its down (stubo)
  Added check mining pool:port if internet is up and wait before restart miner and reboot system (papampi)
  Added "Warning" to log output of alerts to catch them easier (papampi)
  Changed logfile location to tmpfs (papampi)
  Fixed a bug in logging system to limit logs to 500 lines
  Added checking number of gpus installed vs system reported gpus at start of wdog, so you know if a gpu is not working (papampi)
  Changed sleep time before wdog goin on watch to be based on gpu counts (papampi)
  Set higher process and disk I/O priorities - watchdog is essential service
  Code optimization (leenoox)

temp control (by leenoox):
  Set higher process and disk I/O priorities - Temp control is essential service
  Auto detection of number of GPU's
  Only set, adjust and display available GPU's, dynamic variables creation
  Numeric check of the return values from nvidia-smi (looking for numbers only, anything else = error)
  Reboot if GPU error detected and watchdog didn't react for 60 seconds (act as a backup watchdog)
  Added query delay to nvidia API (no burst spamming, added 0.5 sec delay, prevent overload), helps reduce stale shares
  New (improved) display output including colors and bold text
  Fixed the log file handling (Bug fix: Previous implemantation was not limiting the file size)
  Removed repetitive GPUFanControlState setting, it only needs to be set once, not every cycle (prevent API overload)

nvOC utility (by stubo):
  New function based utility that has many features including gpuinfo, stop, start, clearlogs, restart, etc.
  

Others:
  Added log rotation (papampi)
  Changed minerinfo and papampi-telegram for new log locations (papampi)
  Create tmpfs partition to change logfile location to tmpfs to lower read/writes to HDD/USB (papampi)
  Changed minerinfo web so those who dont use wtm dont see empty or no wtm entries (papampi)


Black screen while on riser:

Recently tried out the community build. It works well with at least 1 GPU that's mounted on the mobo. However, as soon as I have all GPU units connected to the mobo through risers, I couldn't see any video signal out of my HDMI cable that's connected to one of the GPUs.

This situation is reproduced even with 1 GPU connected through a riser. Is this a known issue or is it my setup ?

Motherboard: MSI Z270 SLI PLUS
GPU: zotac 1080 ti

Please advise.

Thx!


Thank you! the monitor worked with cards off the mobo through risers. step 1 worked: attach risers to mobo in order of 16x pcie first, and from to to bottom in order.

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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: nvOC v0019-2.0 Community Release
by
pzyxian
on 09/01/2018, 19:30:57 UTC
nvOC 19-2.0 Community Release Notes:


Code:
Miner Updates/Additions:
  DSTM's Zcash/Equihash Miner v. 0.5.6
  tpruvot/ccminer v. 2.2.3
  krnlx/ccminer-xevan latest
  KlausT/ccminer v. 0.8.15
  Claymore 10.02
  Nanashi ccminer
  Vertminer
  
3main edits :
  Removed the infinite loops and put one at the end to cover all mining blocks (stubo)
  Bug fix for 1050 Ti where pstate3 was not OC'ed (stubo)
  Removed repetitive if LOCAL then "screen -r miner" from each mining block and put one at the end to cover all mining blocks (stubo)
  Added support for BTG
  Added telemetry/api to EWBF and ZM miner launches so that you can hit :42000 to see this miner output (stubo)
  Added the ability to pass in a miner password for all miners that have the "--pass" arg. (stubo)
  Changed instances of "--pass x" and "--pass x"  and "-p x" to "--pass $MINER_PWD" (stubo)
  Changed dstm zm location to "~/zec/zm/latest/" for easier future updates (papampi)
  Changed all miner start scripts to use separate pool and port from 1bash so watchdog can check the pool connection easier (papampi)
  Added log rotate settings (papampi)
  Moved miner start from 3main to 0miner, to make 3main lighter and better handle of miner start (papampi)
  Added auto start miner yes or no ( in case you need to edit or debug the rig) (papampi)
  Bug fix - $pwr_lim_daggerhashimoto5 corrected to $pwr_lim_daggerhashimoto (leenoox)
  Bug fix - INDIVIDUAL settings were applied to GPU's 0-13 only. Fixed to work with 0-18 (leenoox)
  Partial code cleanup (leenoox)

1bash edits:
  Added EWBF_OPTS and ZM_OPTS for telemetry/api to EWBF and ZM miner (stubo)
  Added MINER_PWD for miner passwords (stubo)
  Unified and separated all pool address and pool ports so wdog can check if pool is up or no if needed (papampi)
  Updated contributors list and release name (leenoox)

wdog edits:
  Added check if miner is running or not when utilization dropped to restart miner faster (stubo)
  Added check for internet and wait if its down (stubo)
  Added check mining pool:port if internet is up and wait before restart miner and reboot system (papampi)
  Added "Warning" to log output of alerts to catch them easier (papampi)
  Changed logfile location to tmpfs (papampi)
  Fixed a bug in logging system to limit logs to 500 lines
  Added checking number of gpus installed vs system reported gpus at start of wdog, so you know if a gpu is not working (papampi)
  Changed sleep time before wdog goin on watch to be based on gpu counts (papampi)
  Set higher process and disk I/O priorities - watchdog is essential service
  Code optimization (leenoox)

temp control (by leenoox):
  Set higher process and disk I/O priorities - Temp control is essential service
  Auto detection of number of GPU's
  Only set, adjust and display available GPU's, dynamic variables creation
  Numeric check of the return values from nvidia-smi (looking for numbers only, anything else = error)
  Reboot if GPU error detected and watchdog didn't react for 60 seconds (act as a backup watchdog)
  Added query delay to nvidia API (no burst spamming, added 0.5 sec delay, prevent overload), helps reduce stale shares
  New (improved) display output including colors and bold text
  Fixed the log file handling (Bug fix: Previous implemantation was not limiting the file size)
  Removed repetitive GPUFanControlState setting, it only needs to be set once, not every cycle (prevent API overload)

nvOC utility (by stubo):
  New function based utility that has many features including gpuinfo, stop, start, clearlogs, restart, etc.
  

Others:
  Added log rotation (papampi)
  Changed minerinfo and papampi-telegram for new log locations (papampi)
  Create tmpfs partition to change logfile location to tmpfs to lower read/writes to HDD/USB (papampi)
  Changed minerinfo web so those who dont use wtm dont see empty or no wtm entries (papampi)


Black screen while on riser:

Recently tried out the community build. It works well with at least 1 GPU that's mounted on the mobo. However, as soon as I have all GPU units connected to the mobo through risers, I couldn't see any video signal out of my HDMI cable that's connected to one of the GPUs.

This situation is reproduced even with 1 GPU connected through a riser. Is this a known issue or is it my setup ?

Motherboard: MSI Z270 SLI PLUS
GPU: zotac 1080 ti

Please advise.

Thx!