Topic: [Awesome Miner] - Powerful Windows GUI to manage and monitor up to 200000 miners - page 376. (Read 703471 times)

There seems to be a real problem with X16r.

Every morning I wake up and my most profitable rig is not mining anything at all, because it was mining X16r and then it just stopped overnight and did not start mining anything else.

I am losing a lot of profit because of this.

PLEASE FIX...

They are at 6k miners from below 1k miners just because of us, AM miners that selected zergpool from AM settings.
ZergPool should be aware that as easy it was to skyrocket to 6k they can go back to below 1k if zergpool is removed from AM.
Miners simply had no option because X17 is one of the most popular algos from all pools.
AM's performance and credibility relies on pool's statistics that if they send for 6 hours statistics for X17 that are 10 times higher than any other pool, than AM did nothing to prevent it and is the one that could be blamed also.
Mining works  as a synergy between Awesome Miner and and pools like zergpool. If the pools send statistics that are 10 times higher for 6 hours, than AM's credibility is affected because its lack of protection and users will try to use any other mining software that offers them stability and reliability. For 6 hours, 4500 miners had no protection from AM and mined on a fork and pool administrators did nothing for 6 hours as you can see from everybody's graphs.

Bug v4.6.5 (perhaps in the previous 2 releases ase well
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Most of the remote miners will show interface offline error (some green text, some with red text) when you have option window/profile editor opened for a little while (leave it for 3 minutes and it surely kicks in)

The miners are actually still online and API are accessible and so on, just AM not seem to probe, reading them properly while the Options Window is opened so might be an issue with Remote Agent in the latest builds

Also, an unrelated feature request - and I hope this is something simple to implement. Please make the columns customizable for the compact list. I dont particularly care about accept/reject stats, but there's a lot of other information in the summary tab that I'd like constantly displayed near each miner - such as the windows uptime, miner uptime, software being used, the worker/pool, number of GPUs active, individual GPU temps/fan/hash, etc. When I maximize the window the majority of the main window is whitespace, and I have to constantly click each miner to find out simple information like windows uptime. I just want to be able to tell at a glance which machines have low uptime so I can identify the unstable ones. Or I want to know which wallet its mining to at a glance, or which rigs/profiles I didnt configure to use a new software, etc.

And you really, really need to be able to make it possible to ctrl-click miners in different groups. I manage multiple mining farms and I have to keep them in groups so each client can only see information pertaining to their own miners. But when I want to upload new software, apply templates, start/stop miners etc - I have to literally do everything 5 times. Especially when stuff like uploading custom software locks the UI, when you have 50+ miners to update but you can only do 10 at once, I have to constantly babysit it. Something that I could have clicked once, walked away and came back a few minutes later when its all done instead takes a very long time because I have to wait for one to finish to start the next. If I didnt have them in groups I could do this with ease, so I'm between a rock and a hard place. To a lesser extent this is also a problem with the benchmarking - you've been good about adding new software, but in order for me to know whether this software is worth using I need to bench it. We have profit profiles because every software gives different results on every hardware - so obviously I need to bench it separately for each profile. That wouldnt be a big deal if I could bench all 8 of my profiles simultaneously on 8 different rigs, but instead its another thing that takes over an hour of work to do correctly because it locks up the entire UI and I have to go one by one.

Both of these related issues can be incredibly frustrating because kind of the whole point of AM to me is that it makes managing large farms far more practical - but actually using AM with large farms is an exercise in frustration because of UI/UX decisions that result in SO MUCH manual busywork! It may make managing the farms possible but it also makes it so aggravatingly time consuming that I'll be honest, I'm still constantly looking for alternatives to AM that offer a similar level of configurability but require less time and have more informative/flexible UIs. Like AM has great features, but the UI actively makes me not want to use those features because it takes so long to accomplish simple things.

I understand your frustration, but you should just deselect Zergpool yourself from your list if they have crossed a line for you. I don't think it should just be removed from Awesome miner. Some people may only be using it for a couple algorithms, (and they may be ones you don't even use) but those people may really want it as an option. I'd like to see MORE pools added (Blazepool, and Yiimp pool for starters) Even if you hate a pool and never want to use it, it will help you to have it in the list because other people who do have it selected will switch to that pool, leaving less miners at the pool that you DO prefer, and also, everybodys miners won't all go to the same place at the same time if there are more pools available.

Patrike,
I have a question for you and anyone else who can help.

Yesterday night 4500 miners lost 6 hours of mining on all rigs on ZERGPOOL that was added last month by Patrike in default configuration. see: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2759935.new#new

The issue we all have is that Awesome Miner does not have any protection against this type of problem, when X17 algo, an algo that has almost NO VOLATILITY, suddenly increased profitability by 10 times, from 1 to 15k.

I think that Awesome Miner can implement an option to protect miners from forks by saving average volatility for a coin/algo by storing the min & max values for profitability and computing volatility. If the algo exceeds double of previous maximum  profitability AM can send a warning message of a possible FORK and if it exceeds 3 times the maximum previous profitability it can disable that algo for a number of minutes (all parameters can be configurable). Something similar to the functionality we have in AM to disable pools without accepted shares for a number of minutes.

When users told ZERGPOOL moderators on Discord channel about the issue that they had for 6 hours and about their loss, the moderators from zergpool Discord channel started swearing and said that it is only miner's fault that miners did not disable X17 / XVG, but miners said that it was pool's administrator responsibility to disable the coins with problems, because miners can't monitor 180 coins all the time, that's why miners pay the pool fee, right ?

Patrike, I do think that zergpool went from 1k miners to 6k miners only thanks to you, it happened when you was kind and added their pool to default AM configuration. We, the miners and users who selected zergpool from AM's configuration feel that the pool does not respect us when they are talking with a lot of bad words to us ans swearing us when we told them that they did nothing for 6 hours the Discord channel moderator answered on their Discord channel (please check) this "phear - Today at 11:19 AM : you just spreading sh*t on ventilator" .  I do think it's not fair to be treated with such lack of respect from their end after we informed them that they should disable XVG from their pool. We, the 4500 miners from zergpool at that time on x17, lost 6 hours of mining and we deserve some apologies at least, because we had thousands of rigs loosing money, not them.

Patrike, can you please send them a message, because you added that pool on AM's default configuration, and you can remove them from AM, and you helped them to have so many miners, miners that are AM's miners, miners that deserve respect from their end,  maybe they will understand that at least we deserve some respect and we do not deserve to be sweated like that.

Thank you very much, I hope you understand us, we spent a lot of money to buy the RIGs.