Does anyone else have an issue with MiningDutch and the skein algorithm?
If I start Awesome Miner and I have all of my pools enabled in the profit switching menu, then Awesome Miner switches to Mining Dutch to mine the skein algo, it will instead start mining x11 (always the same, always x11).... and that is not profitable at all.... BUT, if I have only Mining Dutch selected in the profit switching menu, then start the miner, it mines skein normally with no problems.
The other problem that I have is that when I have all my pools enabled in the profit switching menu, AwesomeMiner will be mining the most profitable algo, and there will be no errors, no rejected shares, no hardware errors, but it will randomly just start mining the next most profitable algo in the list while the other algo is still the most profitable.
Also, when this happens, stopping the miner and restarting it will not make it start mining the top algo again... I have to completely close AwesomeMiner, and then it will start mining the most profitable algo again.
Does anyone else experience these issues, and what can I do to fix this?
1) Which of these pools are most profitable according to the View Details dialog (right click on the miner and select View Details)? The hashrates defined in the profit profile is what the profit switcher is looking atIf I start Awesome Miner and I have all of my pools enabled in the profit switching menu, then Awesome Miner switches to Mining Dutch to mine the skein algo, it will instead start mining x11 (always the same, always x11).... and that is not profitable at all.... BUT, if I have only Mining Dutch selected in the profit switching menu, then start the miner, it mines skein normally with no problems.
The other problem that I have is that when I have all my pools enabled in the profit switching menu, AwesomeMiner will be mining the most profitable algo, and there will be no errors, no rejected shares, no hardware errors, but it will randomly just start mining the next most profitable algo in the list while the other algo is still the most profitable.
Also, when this happens, stopping the miner and restarting it will not make it start mining the top algo again... I have to completely close AwesomeMiner, and then it will start mining the most profitable algo again.
Does anyone else experience these issues, and what can I do to fix this?
2) I think you may not get any accepted shares for a period of time, and then Awesome Miner will mark the pool as "Failed" for this reason. You can disable this behavior in the Options dialog, Profit Switching section where you can uncheck "Ignore pools with no accepted shares".
Please keep an eye on this miner to make sure that it eventually starts to produce accepted shares.
1) I am using the nvidia profile (fully benchmarked and saved to profile) in my online services tab. When skein algo on Mining Dutch is most profitable.... It's because your software is telling me it is the most profitable. Clicking view details to see the most profitable gives me the same information as the online services tab.
The issue is that it's not actually mining skein like I said. (Unless I uncheck all pools in profit switching menu and only allow Mining Dutch)
At the very least, if there is no fix for me... Is there at least a way to disable just 1 specific algo for 1 specific pool??? If that is not possible, could you please add that in an update? I believe the ability to disable specific algos for specific pools would help a lot of people. I looked around but never found any option to do this.
2) Again, like I said.... AwesomeMiner will be mining the most profitable algo, and there will be no errors, no rejected shares, no hardware errors, but it will randomly just start mining the next most profitable algo in the list while the other algo is still the most profitable.
Could the shares just be taking too long? I have ignore pools with no accepted shares set to 5 minutes.
EDIT: Yes I believe I had the setting "Ignore pools with no accepted shares (in minutes)" set too low. Setting this number higher or disabling it appears to keep miners mining when they are working harder for shares in certain cases. But this still does not explain why AwesomeMiner starts mining x11 on Mining Dutch when it is supposed to be mining skein.... and it is only with skein, like right now I have some rigs mining Nist5 on Mining Dutch, and none of them are having any issues and they are all mining the correct algo.
1) I assume you are using built-in Online Services, in this case, yes you can disable algo per pool just by Online Services -> Select one(s) you want to edit (multi select with shift/ctrl possible) and press Edit/Buik Edit -> Uncheck the Include in Managed Profit Switcher box, this part was pretty straight forward hence not easy to search for posts with similar issue
2) If you are having the problem of pools deactivated due to no accepted shares, check the port you are using, and read the getting started page @ Mining-Dutch on which port to use for your hardware. In fact, the default Online Services currently in AM v4.7 is probably using the wrong port for most hobby miners (9998 is High Diff on Skein Multiport at MD) hence you are not getting accepted shares fast enough. Just change the port to Vardiff and try again. since I believe you have quite capable HW, you might not need to use the Low Diff port.
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PS, if you have no ASICs or ASICs for certain ASIC algos, I suggest you disable most of the ASIC algos since no point mining them with GPUs/CPUs, disable via 1) ....above.
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PPS.
While you might be experienced miner, I guess you are relatively new to AM or Profit Switching. My suggestion is to test various online services and find out which one suits you and filter out the ones that doesn't. If you don't do Auto Exchange at all, I suggest you look away from the Built-In Yiimp pools and manually add only the ones you like to use via Pool Groups.
I appreciate the /r/ELI5 explanation of things, and yes you are correct, I am new to AM.
I have a mix of GPU rigs and ASIC units.
And yes I completely overlooked the actual online services menu part because I mainly thought it was for altering ports and such, not disabling the algos entirely... In hindsight it does make sense that I should have looked there to see if disabling specific algos was possible. (I mainly spend a lot of time looking at the online services tab not the menu part) So thanks for that bit of knowledge.
So for right now I am much happier with AM and because of your posts I am starting to look at AM issues as they are probably my lack of understanding of the finer points of the software itself...
But, I still believe that there is some unseen issue here for Mining Dutch with the skein algo.... Like I said, it is only Mining Dutch and only skein and only if I enable all my pools. If I simply disable all other pools then mining skein on Mining Dutch works just fine, but with all pools enabled, for some reason if skein on Mining Dutch becomes the most profitable, when the miner starts... it starts mining x11. And it's always x11, nothing else.
Anyway, thank you.
