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Re: [ANN] CROPCOIN [CROP] | Masternodes | Gpu | PoS | Decentralized Marketplace
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siforek
on 13/03/2018, 19:43:29 UTC
When is tiered MN update?
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Re: [ANN] dstm's ZCash / Equihash Nvidia Miner v0.5.8 (Linux / Windows)
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siforek
on 26/01/2018, 21:23:46 UTC
I tried switching from ewbf to dstm for the 2nd time yesterday. Initially it started out 5-10% faster than ewbf which is awesome, however after about 10-15 minutes it slowed more & more to the point where it was as much as 40% slower than ewbf, at which point I switched back.
I've talked to others that do not have the same problem, yet they were running less GPUs than I am. I have multiple rigs with 13x1070s & 1070tis.

I have the same problem with DSTM 0.5.6, 0.5.7 and 0.5.8. Stable and fast as hell, but after one hour it starts to make less and less sol/s.. in three hours I'm getting half rate (I start with 680-700 sol/s and after 4 hours I end with 230 sol/s)... so my only solution is restart the miner. All the time no more than 60ºC, fan speed at 60%. I have two rigs, same specs and the same problem: Asrock H110 PRO + 13 Nvidia 1080Ti (up five different brands, mixed). Every rig have 4 PSUs: 3 x 1000W + 1 x 1600W and just one cable to power every riser (4 pin molex version) so no problems about power or temperature. I use simplemining without overclock, just power at 200W, no extra mhz in gpu core or memory. Is it a configuration problem?

Yep same motherboard, never had this issue with any other miner but I'd love to get it working & get the extra sols. Anyone else have any ideas?

Are you all using SMOS?
Some SMOS user reported something similar recently.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2021765.msg27398311#msg27398311

If you take a look at the provided data: affected systems seems to have a lot 'nvidia-settings' processes running, this might be the reason for the performance drop after some time. So pls check if this is also the case on your system - It looks like SMOS is starting nvidia-setting (most likely for monitoring) without properly closing it.


Having this issue & yes, on SMOS. Would just replace SMOS with Ubuntu if I could but only have remote access to rigs. Might need to mod SMOS source to fix :/
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Re: [ANN] dstm's ZCash / Equihash Nvidia Miner v0.5.8 (Linux / Windows)
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siforek
on 24/01/2018, 08:21:27 UTC
I tried switching from ewbf to dstm for the 2nd time yesterday. Initially it started out 5-10% faster than ewbf which is awesome, however after about 10-15 minutes it slowed more & more to the point where it was as much as 40% slower than ewbf, at which point I switched back.
I've talked to others that do not have the same problem, yet they were running less GPUs than I am. I have multiple rigs with 13x1070s & 1070tis.

I have the same problem with DSTM 0.5.6, 0.5.7 and 0.5.8. Stable and fast as hell, but after one hour it starts to make less and less sol/s.. in three hours I'm getting half rate (I start with 680-700 sol/s and after 4 hours I end with 230 sol/s)... so my only solution is restart the miner. All the time no more than 60ºC, fan speed at 60%. I have two rigs, same specs and the same problem: Asrock H110 PRO + 13 Nvidia 1080Ti (up five different brands, mixed). Every rig have 4 PSUs: 3 x 1000W + 1 x 1600W and just one cable to power every riser (4 pin molex version) so no problems about power or temperature. I use simplemining without overclock, just power at 200W, no extra mhz in gpu core or memory. Is it a configuration problem?

Platinum or Gold Certified PSU? I noticed difference in performance when I compared my Gold EVGA with my Platinum EVGA's. Now I only go for Platinums as they are more stable and give better performance for me.

It's not the PSUs.
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Re: [ANN] dstm's ZCash / Equihash Nvidia Miner v0.5.8 (Linux / Windows)
by
siforek
on 24/01/2018, 01:03:25 UTC
I tried switching from ewbf to dstm for the 2nd time yesterday. Initially it started out 5-10% faster than ewbf which is awesome, however after about 10-15 minutes it slowed more & more to the point where it was as much as 40% slower than ewbf, at which point I switched back.
I've talked to others that do not have the same problem, yet they were running less GPUs than I am. I have multiple rigs with 13x1070s & 1070tis.

I have the same problem with DSTM 0.5.6, 0.5.7 and 0.5.8. Stable and fast as hell, but after one hour it starts to make less and less sol/s.. in three hours I'm getting half rate (I start with 680-700 sol/s and after 4 hours I end with 230 sol/s)... so my only solution is restart the miner. All the time no more than 60ºC, fan speed at 60%. I have two rigs, same specs and the same problem: Asrock H110 PRO + 13 Nvidia 1080Ti (up five different brands, mixed). Every rig have 4 PSUs: 3 x 1000W + 1 x 1600W and just one cable to power every riser (4 pin molex version) so no problems about power or temperature. I use simplemining without overclock, just power at 200W, no extra mhz in gpu core or memory. Is it a configuration problem?

Yep same motherboard, never had this issue with any other miner but I'd love to get it working & get the extra sols. Anyone else have any ideas?
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Re: [ANN] dstm's ZCash / Equihash Nvidia Miner v0.5.8 (Linux / Windows)
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siforek
on 23/01/2018, 22:41:35 UTC
I tried switching from ewbf to dstm for the 2nd time yesterday. Initially it started out 5-10% faster than ewbf which is awesome, however after about 10-15 minutes it slowed more & more to the point where it was as much as 40% slower than ewbf, at which point I switched back.
I've talked to others that do not have the same problem, yet they were running less GPUs than I am. I have multiple rigs with 13x1070s & 1070tis.
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ASRock H110 PCI Slot Numbering
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siforek
on 17/01/2018, 20:05:29 UTC
I found this

PCIe Slot   PCIe address   Note   GPU Number
1_1                   09:00.0                   white   GPU0
1                   02:00.0                   black   GPU1
2_1                   0C:00.0.            white   GPU2
2                   01:00.0                black, 16x   GPU8
3_1                   0D:00.0                   white   GPU3
3                   03:00.0                   black   GPU4
4_1                   0E:00.0                   white   GPU7
4                   04:00.0                   black   GPU6
5_1.            0F:00.0                   white   GPU5
5                   05:00.0                   black   GPU9
6_1                   0A:00.0                   white   GPU10
6                   06:00.0                   black   GPU11
7_1                   0B:00.0                   white   GPU12

At: https://www.reddit.com/r/MoneroMining/comments/7eq9vv/postit_pcie_logical_and_physical_slot_numbering/

But no confirmation that's the numbering for Linux. I've used a few of these motherboards, was able to trial & error to replace risers to get them stable but on my new one if I could know for certain what port GPU7, 8 & 9 are it would make troubleshooting WAY easier!
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Mining business apps & tracking worker shares
by
siforek
on 12/01/2018, 18:20:58 UTC
1st, I've been using a combination of APIs(cryptocompare, MPH, etc) to track mining revenue & so far I'm able to track how much coin mined, the price when it was mined & thus pay income tax only on what's mined vs gains on the rest. I'm curious what/if any others are using to manage their businesses? Suggestions?

2nd, I have investors that so far are buying entire rigs & each rig has it's own wallet. As I scale it's becoming quite a bit of work managing everything. Ideally I'd just have all the workers mine to 1 wallet/account & then split the coin later based on each worker's shares which I could previously track with flypool's API but am not able to now that I'm using Mining Pool Hub(no worker share stats). I could setup a MPH account for each worker but again that's a lot to manage. I'm considering writing a simple script that tails the EWBF console & just counts the accepted shares & devfee shares(would be nice to see just how much that ends up being) but still am not sure this is the best/most accurate/reliable way.

I'm also hesitant to use hashrate to do anything more than estimate earning. I know that hashrate is ultimately determined by # of shares but counting shares would be a perfect way to split things. Any ideas/suggestions?

Thanks!
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Re: Still profitable?
by
siforek
on 12/01/2018, 17:44:42 UTC
if you don't want to lose your money in mining, then you have to understand it,you have to believe it.somebody told you that mining is not profitable in current situation and you stop mining. that is ridiculous. look around you keep continue to learn about altocoin.research it.I am sure you are here to make handsome amount.so be careful before investing.and the answer of your is,yes mining is still profitable.

Agreed. I've never made as much $ mining as I do right now. Anyone who tells you it's not profitable has absolutely no clue what they're talking about & the most important thing is to do your own research. Also HOW/what you mine, how much you pay for what hardware & your ability to squeeze every hash out of your cards while maintaining stability makes a big difference.
GPU mining rigs aren't always just plug in/go like ASIC & being tech savvy goes a long way. Lastly if you want to be successful you need to treat mining like a business & have an always evolving business plan. This is a very competitive industry & success long term depends on taking advantage of every edge you can get.

Good luck!
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Buying wholesale/bulk GPUs?
by
siforek
on 27/12/2017, 22:57:33 UTC
I managed to get 52x 1070 & 1070TIs going in the last couple months. Now I need 55 more & don't want to do what I had to last time to get so many cards. There are distributors that look to be about $10 per GPU but are there any best methods? I know the margins on GPUs isn't much.
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Re: Quantum Mining??
by
siforek
on 06/11/2017, 15:37:41 UTC
Quantum Mining isn't a thing yet. As far as I'm aware we're still a ways out from anyone even trying it. I can get a little time on a DWave in soCal but idk it it'd be enough to demonstrate anything significant.

As I understand it though 1 quantum computer with enough qbits could easily crack every lock we use on the net & out hash the entire bitcoin network, so.. Yeah, I'm just trying to connect to a billion other me's rigs & via quantum tunnling share solutions.

There are of course some more technical limitations here & realistically if such a device were created it would be implemented with a new type of coin.
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Re: Energy Based Projects
by
siforek
on 06/11/2017, 02:34:11 UTC
In effect solar companies are already doing 1 element of this. Mass adoption is the hard part, but if you can feasibly get a useable & affordable service to consumers. I like the idea that anyone could say, throw some panels on their roof & in effect mine.
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Dynamically shifting coin to mine?
by
siforek
on 05/11/2017, 23:24:49 UTC
I used to mine Ethereum but switched to Zcash a few months ago. It seems to be the most consistent in profitability. I've often wondered if a simple program that you'd set a threshold that once reached(aka coin is X more profitable to mine) it would switch your rig(s). I know there's a lot more factors at play & when/what you sell your coin for determines your actual profitability, it's just a thought/idea that if made any sense wouldn't be that hard to throw together.

Not worth it? Better to just use NiceHash? Ideas?
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Re: Best USB WatchDog Mining Rig Resetter?
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siforek
on 05/11/2017, 20:54:59 UTC
I personally went this route too: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5-HND9HJkXWSTQtYlFTZ3VyODA/edit

<$50 to control 8 rigs(could control more with another relay) & a simple script to ping the rigs. BTW a few days ago someone added a PR to integrate pushover: https://github.com/Kasmetski/auto-hard-reset/pull/5 which is really handy I think Smiley

My rigs don't hang/go down often but when they do I don't notice a difference anymore Smiley
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Re: Quantum Mining??
by
siforek
on 31/10/2017, 14:53:35 UTC
A multi dimensional crypto currency.. QCs will eventually be affordable, especially once they can work around the interference the required near absolute zero tempetures to operate even a few qbits.
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Re: Quantum Mining??
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siforek
on 30/10/2017, 14:59:38 UTC
Sounds nice, the thing is - QC costs around 1 million dollars...

Yeah not feasible now but the way I see it mining is just the sort of problems that QCs are very good at solving.
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Quantum Mining??
by
siforek
on 30/10/2017, 14:15:56 UTC
Kind of crazy idea but with enough versions of myself in other dimensions trying to solve problems 1 is bound to solve it much quicker(even on the 1st attempt) & then relay that solution to all the others..

Thoughts? Ideas?
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Re: [Mining OS] SimpleMining.net - Easy to use GPU MINING Operating System
by
siforek
on 29/10/2017, 20:10:28 UTC
I have 3 rigs running SMOS, all identical with 13x 1070s on ASRock H110 Pro BTC+. While 2 of my rigs have been running solid without issues, one has been having issues I'm having a hard time troubleshooting. For example, it was running fine last night before I went to sleep but I woke to it "off" in SM(red), still on, just not mining & the only way to get it back up was to manually reboot it.

I've tried lowering OC settings all the way to 0 with no effect. It actually seems to run better/longer while being OC'd higher. Anyway I've even considered buying a SSRv2 but would rather not is I can get it working like it's 2 siblings.

Is there any way I can better troubleshoot this? Maybe certain logs I could look through or perhaps a way to better determine differences between these rigs?
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Re: Very odd networking issue. Rigs take down internet??
by
siforek
on 26/10/2017, 23:06:45 UTC
I used to get internet problem while mining too. I was using ethOS at that time. The tx/rx were very high, the whole internet of my home went down, froze. I was hacked. The only solution then is to reimage my ethos ssd, restart modem, router, switch. Then the internet is back to normal. You seem having the same problem. Try to clear virus on your ssd or reimage it.


Lol It's not a virus. I started having this problem with 3 rigs on SimpleMining. Last night I switched them to PiMP, same issue. I'm really hoping it's the switch & it seems to make sense that the high # of packets would cause this regardless of OS as each rig has 13 GPUs so I am submitting a larger number of shares.
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Re: Good Network Switch?
by
siforek
on 26/10/2017, 23:00:44 UTC
Honestly just use some old routers you got laying around. Connect them to each other and each router will give you at least 3 ( or 4 if last one) connections.

Then there's a double NAT & higher latency right?
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Re: Good Network Switch?
by
siforek
on 26/10/2017, 14:10:47 UTC
I could probably buy 2 or 3 of the most expensive managed switches with the coin I would have made without these issues in the last 2 months.. I have narrowed it down to this same thing: https://www.reddit.com/r/EtherMining/comments/6xkau1/simplemining_os_with_5_or_6_gtx_1070s_makes/

Network storms!? Tried different OSs, 4 different routers & 3 (albeit netgear) switches. I'm bypassing the switch completely to see if that is in fact the issue & if so after praising the Lord I'll get a Cisco.

Someone said a managed switch with spanning tree functionality could prevent network storms?