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Re: Optiminer/Zcash v1.7 (GPU, Windows+Linux, AMD)
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tiennou
on 06/03/2017, 07:35:25 UTC
Can anyone with 470 share speed under Linux?
Based on 16 GPUs : between 260 and 270.
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Re: Optiminer/Zcash v1.6.1 (GPU, Windows+Linux, AMD)
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tiennou
on 11/02/2017, 01:07:47 UTC
FYI, Optiminer v1.6.2 was just released.

[1.6.2] Implement second pci mode (--pci-mode 1).

No idea what it is.
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Re: Optiminer/Zcash v1.6.1 (GPU, Windows+Linux, AMD)
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tiennou
on 09/02/2017, 09:51:12 UTC
is there a support for coinmine.pl ?
It does work, but when I was still mining on coinmine the SSL certificate wasn't recognized by optiminer, maybe feeleep75 changed/fixed that now.
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Re: Optiminer/Zcash v1.6.0 (GPU, Linux, AMD)
by
tiennou
on 02/02/2017, 14:31:49 UTC
Just upgraded my linux boxes to 1.6.0. Looks like a solid and reliable build so far. Getting an increase across the board. At -i 7 cards are doing:
RX470 8G - 288
Rx480 8G -301
Fury X - 452
Fury Pro - 470
R9 390 - 365

How long have you been using your -i 7 ? mostly out of curiosity, i'm wondering whether that's just as stable as -i 6 on stock cards.
But more importantly, have you also compared your Watt/Sol ratio between -i 6 and -i7 ?

I've been using -i 7 for about a week now.

Good question on Watt/Sol ratio. I had not thought of that! I have wattmeters and will be at the warehouse tomorrow so I will run a test.

Hey blackops! Just chatted with you on the other forum. I've looked at power vs intensity, and at least at the "auto" intensity and higher, there is virtually no difference in power consumption, at least on my Nanos. I see a small rate gain with higher intensity, but I favor stability over a couple sols/s. With 120+ GPUs, it doesn't take very many GPUs hanging to wipe out any hash rate gain, for me anyway.

Yes, that's a lot of GPU's, I see why you are set up for stability.

-i 7 is pretty stable so far, but you're right on the downside of a card hanging, especially if it is at night.  It's fun to chase a few extra solutions per sec, but I'm in it for making money, not for bragging rights.

I just counted, I'm only at 60 GPU's....it might be time to go shopping! But, I want to wait just a little longer until the Vega cards come out - either they will be much better, or the Nano's will come down in price.

Humble minds think alike! Smiley Been thinking along the same lines. However, from what I've seen from the AMD tease at CES, HBM2 does *not* have higher memory bandwidth - they doubled the memory clock, but cut the bus width in half. That means the global memory reads done in Equihash will probably not improve *at all*, although the higher mem clock should help the slot writes (relatively small writes) a good bit, but there are much fewer of those. Anyway, only a real mining run with them will tell.

So, I checked the difference between "-i 6" and "-i 7" on my rx 470 (xfx true oc). TL;DR : nothing changed (sols/s, watt, ..). So I reverted back to the default "-i 6".
This might have a better outcome with different GPUs but I guess optiminer did a pretty good choice at picking the intensity parameters.
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Re: Optiminer/Zcash v1.6.0 (GPU, Linux, AMD)
by
tiennou
on 02/02/2017, 07:57:24 UTC
I have switched to Linux ( ubuntu 16.04.1) but have been experiencing my screen not being recognized between switching rigs ( plug in hdmi in one rig and plugging back into same gpu I started with on another rig ) also on startup I have seen my screen not be recognized.
Here's what I did:
install ubuntu
Reboot
Sudo apt update
Sudo apt dist-upgrade
Reboot
Sudo install new amd 16.50
Reboot
Run miner, see gains  Cool
Move to next rig repeat
Came back to the first rig and screen isn't recognized.
Missing anything?

I know i'm not answering exactly what you expect, but how does that matter ?
Can't you use ssh to admin your rigs ?
Or the issue isn't about administration but rather about the miner not working because the screen is not recognized ?
=> My setup is 100% headless, no fake hdmi or anything and it works like a charm.
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Re: Optiminer/Zcash v1.6.0 (GPU, Linux, AMD)
by
tiennou
on 02/02/2017, 01:46:23 UTC
Just upgraded my linux boxes to 1.6.0. Looks like a solid and reliable build so far. Getting an increase across the board. At -i 7 cards are doing:
RX470 8G - 288
Rx480 8G -301
Fury X - 452
Fury Pro - 470
R9 390 - 365

How long have you been using your -i 7 ? mostly out of curiosity, i'm wondering whether that's just as stable as -i 6 on stock cards.
But more importantly, have you also compared your Watt/Sol ratio between -i 6 and -i7 ?
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Re: Optiminer/Zcash v1.6.0 (GPU, Linux, AMD)
by
tiennou
on 02/02/2017, 00:53:50 UTC
how much is dev fees at these miner???
optiminer just updated the changelog on his github repo saying it's 2.5%

Version 1.6.0 released!  Grin

[1.6.0] Asm support for GCN 1 devices.
[1.6.0] Reduced CPU utilization.
[1.6.0] Fix segfault on reconnect.
[1.6.0] Version and Os exported in monitoring.

Speed increase about 3% for newer cards, the GCN 1 cards should see a much higher increase with the asm kernel now.

5% increase on my stock rx 470 (xfx true oc) on ubuntu 14.04 with amdgpu-pro 16.50 (netting me roughly ~262.5sols/s now, compared to ~250sols/s with 1.5.0)
Just as a side-note, i setup 1.5.0 when it got released and never had to reboot/restart any rig (hardware or software).
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Re: Optiminer/Zcash v1.4.0 (GPU, Linux, AMD)
by
tiennou
on 23/01/2017, 02:10:22 UTC
Version 1.5.0 released!

[1.5.0] Support for more pools.
[1.5.0] Allow again extranonces up to 28 bytes (fixed mining problems with nicehash).
[1.5.0] 1-2% increase in hash speed for device specific kernels.


RX470 virtually unchanged compared to 1.4.0. A couple tenth of a percent at most. (i.e. still ~250sols/s on stock with ubuntu 14.04 and amdgpu-pro 16.50).
Edit : 1.5.0 is not faster per se, but the speed (according to the 60s average) is *much* more constant.

Edit2 : some graph for a 4 rigs 4 gpus cluster.
http://tof.canardpc.com/view/ac0be9e0-a4d9-4d0a-9a5b-cb85532e9ef4.jpg
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Re: Optiminer/Zcash v1.3.0 (GPU, Linux, AMD)
by
tiennou
on 17/01/2017, 12:59:45 UTC
it would be nice to know what kind of difference in hashrate is there before spending all that time and effort. Smiley
It substantial. Like ~15% based on what I've read for GCN 4th gen.
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Re: Optiminer/Zcash v1.3.0 (GPU, Linux, AMD)
by
tiennou
on 17/01/2017, 11:31:31 UTC
Version 1.4.0 Released!

https://github.com/Optiminer/OptiminerZcash#optiminerzzcash

[1.4.0] Experimental asm support for GCN 1 devices. Enable with '--experimental-kernel'
[1.4.0] 1-2% increase in hash speed.
[1.4.0] Fix race condition that could lead to invalid solutions.
I can confirm the speed increase.
By the way, when it comes to stability, I just wanted to point out that I ran version 1.3.0 from the moment it's been released until 30min ago when I switched to version 1.4.0 without a single crash on my rigs. That's what I would call pretty stable. Let's hope version 1.4.0 is just as good !
Thanks opti.
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Re: Optiminer/Zcash v1.3.0 (GPU, Linux, AMD)
by
tiennou
on 12/01/2017, 08:43:58 UTC
Also i had to remove that line zstratum+tls:// in start bat because miner refused to make secure connection complaining something about security certificate... On same rig Claymore SSL connection work without problems.Strange.
That's because the admins of that pool are sloppy and they installed a certificate which name is not coherent with the dns address.
Like for zec.coinmine.pl : the ssl certificate is actually for www2.coinmine.pl
=> Claymore added it just for the sake of the implementation and it adds little more security. Optiminer did the real work and checks that the certificate is actually the intended one (which is also why we can't hijack the fee channel anymore).

Code:
echo | openssl s_client -showcerts -connect zec.coinmine.pl:7017 2>/dev/null | openssl x509 -inform pem -noout -text
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Re: Optiminer/Zcash v1.2.0 (GPU, Linux, AMD)
by
tiennou
on 07/01/2017, 03:08:40 UTC
Version 1.3.0 released!

New speeds (stock card, linux):
R9 Nano: 390 S/s
R9 290X: 285 S/s
RX 480: 260 S/s
RX 470 : 245 S/s
Well done. Running 4 ubuntu 16.04 rigs with each 4 rx470.
Stable so far, I'll keep you posted.
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Re: SILENTARMY v5: Zcash miner, 115 sol/s on R9 Nano, 70 sol/s on GTX 1070
by
tiennou
on 16/12/2016, 07:36:13 UTC
@zawawa, compiling on ubuntu 14.04 and getting some errors here mate. (to many to list to be honest :p)

Edit: just checked your thread, i see you're on it Smiley
Compiled without any hassle here, with the latest commits.
Getting 115sols/s with a stock rx 470 (for reference, that same card would do ~175sols/s with optiminer - including the fee).
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Re: Optiminer/Zcash v1.0.1 (GPU, Linux, AMD)
by
tiennou
on 13/12/2016, 01:55:41 UTC
Public version 1.0.1 just released:
https://github.com/Optiminer/OptiminerZcash

Seems no faster than 0.6 on Pitcairn and Tahiti.


PS : my rx470 is hashing at (not counting fee hash)
~170sols/s with 1.0.1
~160sols/s with 0.6.0

so, you hacked the fee, but getting less on Rx 470 than with fee or i did not get your post.
I got 168mh/s long term average on MSI RX 470 on 0.6.0
I second stability of 0.6.0 on RX 470 rig(s). No impetus for unstable 1.0.1
Stability is of utmost importance for me. I don't have time to check them every hour.
I'm getting more with 0.6.0 as I get own hash + fee hash than with 1.0.1 as I'd only get my own hash (which has barely changed).
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Re: Optiminer/Zcash v1.0.1 (GPU, Linux, AMD)
by
tiennou
on 12/12/2016, 15:24:41 UTC
Optiminer works very stable.
I've been running optiminer 0.6.0 on 3 rigs 24/7 since the day it's been released without a single crash (each rig has 4 rx470).
Indeed all ethernet connected, stable connection, stock GPUs, default options.
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Re: Optiminer/Zcash v1.0.1 (GPU, Linux, AMD)
by
tiennou
on 12/12/2016, 01:28:42 UTC
Public version 1.0.1 just released:
https://github.com/Optiminer/OptiminerZcash

Seems no faster than 0.6 on Pitcairn and Tahiti.

I honestly don't see the point of using 1.0.1. It's rather easy to circumvent the crazy fee in 0.6.0 and base hash + fee hash in 0.6.0 is above the base hash on 1.0.1 (with or without fee).
Plus optiminer now has implemented an ssl connection for his fee, connecting to his own (solo ?) mine (proxy.optiminer.pl:4041) which checks the certificate so impossible to hijack the connection now.
Trying to strace/dbg the process is crashing it so hard to say now how much fee he's pumping out of our rigs.

Long story short : I'll be sticking to 0.6.0 until there's another linux miner with a decent fee or until optiminer get his act together and adjust his with more transparency.

PS : my rx470 is hashing at (not counting fee hash)
~170sols/s with 1.0.1
~160sols/s with 0.6.0
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Re: Optiminer/Zcash v0.6.0 (GPU, Linux + Windows, AMD)
by
tiennou
on 01/12/2016, 01:44:09 UTC
Very bad.. optiminer was almost as good as claymore.. only few sols less Sad
Maybe someone can tell how to get private subscription?


THE CODER CODED FOR 10% DEV FEE WITHOUT TELLING USERS--

And that is after the dev fee reduction.  I am mining WITH the dev fee.  This is the best miner for AMD/Linux.  The crackers say the code is based on SilentArmy.

You add it up.       --scryptr

It was clearly stated on the web page that the miner had a fee. And the shown rates were with fee deducted, so no user was tricked into anything. Code is not based on anything other, I wrote it myself from scratch.
That's one of the reasons why we (generally speaking) have laws for "abusive license agreement" for example.
The problem is there is asymmetric information : YOU know how much you're making, because you code it, and you chose it that way. But we don't. And that creates a completely untrustworthy context which makes people more willing to cheat you, because essentially, what you are doing is cheating us by not saying anything and parading behind a "what you see is what you get, nothing else matters".

If you're too afraid of clearly stating the fee, maybe it's because you know yourself that's its too high. And that's not how you get much support.