Topic: [ANN] dstm's ZCash / Equihash Nvidia Miner v0.6.2 (Linux / Windows) - page 49. (Read 224961 times)

Good one

Hi, just switched 9 rigs to DSTM 0.5.8, using ethos 1.2.9.  I have a question regarding CPU Usage and was wondering if anyone has found and solution for this, here's the details

Rigs 6/7/8/9- Biostar TB250-BTCPRO/i3 7100 3.9ghz/120GB SSD/8GB RAM/12GPUs x Gigabyte 1070 Windforce OC
Rigs 10/11/12/13- ASROCK H110 Pro BTC/i3 7100 3.9ghz/120GB SSD/8GB RAM/13GPUs x Palit 1070 Super Jetstream
Rigs 14- Biostar TB250-BTCPRO/i3 7100 3.9ghz/120GB SSD/8GB RAM/12GPUs X Palit 1070ti Super Jetstream

DSTM miner program CPU load
Rigs 6/8/9 - 60% to 70%
Rig 7 - 30% to 35%
Rigs 10/11/12/13 - 65% to 75%
Rig 14 - 60% to 70%

All of the run of similar OC's and Power settings, I have been trying to figure out why the CPU usage Load on all these rigs are high except for Rig 7.  Has anyone have similar issues?

very true lol ... Ppl are paying for "no support".  With this kind of money he should be working on that program 24/7 

lul thats stupid man.
ewbf = 3049
dstm = 3099 - 2% = 3037

Why use DSTM if earning less ? Makes no sense. And yes, --fee 0 works in EWBF.


yes EWBF works better with GDD5X(1080, 1080Ti).

The demand on memory performance degrades with lower difficulty tests.
I would not trust anything running for short amount of time. EWBF for me died when he cannot even provide a binary over Google Drive (Trojan detection.)
DTSM became the miner of my choice thanks to a benchmark posted on http://www.zcashbenchmarks.info/

I still stand with my first assessment that the main downfall of this client is the ability to communicate and state things clearly...
 - Difficulty is not a float, but hex
 - Log is just an extension of the command line output
 - Command line output is just a status message
 - Telemetry replaces command line output (Good thing)
 - Current log makes little sense without further tools. (I would appreciate more details)

I think the log should contain:
 - TCP communication details (Hostname, IP, Port)
 - Share details (More than just + or *)
 - no performance ticks (Could be replaced by TXT file for benchmarking.)

Anyway I am looking forward to new versions, but I am sticking with 0.5.7. Performance on 0.5.8 is worse for me CPU wise.

DSTM stated that he will look into GDDR5X optimisation, and someone advocated EFBW to be better on GDDR5X cards here.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.28416751

Why do you say "GDDR5X cards witch presumably should have worked better on EWBF"? Based on what? I have 2 x MSI gtx1080 gaming which are GDDR5X and they do slightly better than my 1070's in DSTM, but much better in EWBF - but still very similar (low 500's sol when at powerlimit 70, core +100, memory +50) in both.

When I mine neoscrypt my 1070s actually do better (!) which is crazy but I realize there is some kind of memory latency issue with GDDR5X. Has anyone worked out any way around this? Is there any way we can set or modify memory timings or anything else to mitigate this? According to CUDA processing power the 1080 should really do around 600 sol but the stupid memory is getting in the way. Maybe I will start a thread to ask about any possible solutions.

I actually advocated EWBF earlyer, but sticking with DSTM now Test ended with average 3049 EWBF vs 3099 DSTM. 50 free hashes? Sounds good for me... --fee 0 didn't helped EWBF. And at least in my case i still see 2% less shares then reported by miner. And even some say they see 1% reduce it still does not save EFBW.

And this is GDDR5X cards witch presumably should have worked better on EFBW.

P.S. I am not related to DSTM or EFBW in any way, long time used both but recent discussion in DSTM thread pushed me to do a test myself. Believe me or not, this was exactly same machiene of 6x1080 (non ti) not tweaked in any way for one or another miner, and it was not even restarted during test period.

https://imageking.eu/images/dstmcompar.png large image



So for us miners it is actually bad, DSTM does not have competition and would get out even with 3% fee....

The miner does not care which coin you mine. It calculates shares based on minimum difficulty and provides them back.
Coin switching on NiceHash should just as easy as on MPH:

Information provided for EU and Equihash:
stratum+tcp://equihash.eu.nicehash.com:3357
stratum+ssl://equihash.eu.nicehash.com:33357
username: YourBitcoinAddress
password: x
You can check your results on: http://localhost:8080/

Hey, I was wrong!! The 0.5.7 version keep a stable sol/s ratio! So, the problem is: dstm 0.5.6 and 0.5.8 get slower. Use the 0.5.7 instead.

Wait till 0.6.0 release, we will se what is added, is there any performance upgrade or so.

No need to hurry when making 300k a month.

Any improvement, been a while since a good upgrade?

example configs please

Thanks for the program!

So it works on my card MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 1607Mhz PCI-E 3.0 11264Mb 11124Mhz 352 bit DVI HDMI HDCP LIGHTNING Z (GTX 1080 TI LIGHTNING Z)



Screen: https://image.prntscr.com/image/RrVNO9MvTB6GPzbyPBZzaw.png

I will still test with the same settings EWBF''s CUDA miner Z cash issued 790-820 sol.
I think to tune A/B under your miner.

Afterburner screen: https://image.prntscr.com/image/7Rvby2IESL2GN45rLpPHkg.png

CUDA miner Z cash: https://image.prntscr.com/image/BulLm8OuTPWzHXnK4e7UgQ.png

Or I something not so do?

https://www.nicehash.com/cpu-gpu-mining

Under "Select closest location for more efficient mining" you can generate the configs

got error with cudamemcpy 2 failed what that mean? please

also interested to know how to do that

Hay guys any way to connect DSTM with Nicehash? Or mining equahash on DSTM @ nicehash pool?

Hi all:
I am prototyping a Mining Rig Monitor for this miner.

Its purpose is 3 fold.
1) Good mining operations (Bright Green LED) at a glance from a distance (30')
2) More detailed mining data on text screen.
3) Alert conditions (Bright RED flashing LED) at a glance (30') plus email alerts AND optional isolated relay DPDT triggering for custom alarms or PSU reboots etc.

It is meant to be hot glued onto whatever rig housing you use at whatever viewing angle you prefer.

It will use a 16x2 or 16x4 LCD display (backlit, 3" wide approx) to display the GPU temps and total Sol/s rate.
Also it will track the average max. Sols/S and if that average Sols/S rate drops by > 10%  or if the miner ceases to mine and report the Sols/S it will:
Send an alert email & display a flashing RED LED.
I am doing the email script in AutoIT3 for Windows but I will open source the script for anyone who wishes to convert to linux use.

If mining is proceeding 'normally' a solid green LED will light.

I am looking at a unit retail price of perhaps $25 or less based on volume. It will connect via USB to the PC.

Optional DPDT miniature 2A isolated Relay to trigger upon an alert for those who wish to tie in a remote alarm or force a  PSU reboot etc.
Anyone interested in a group buy of the first batch can contact me via [email protected]. PAYPAL.

I am open to requests as to what mining data summary is preferable.
cheers
Ancel

Actually I just noticed this the other day where I switched to this miner it was considerably faster.
Now I figured out why the EWBF was running slower than this is because the clock speed and frame buffer isn't utilized as well.  About a 25-50Mhz on core and 4-6% lower frame buffer made it slower than dstm's miner.  Enjoy the additional performance!