Topic: [Awesome Miner] - Powerful Windows GUI to manage and monitor up to 200000 miners - page 432. (Read 703113 times)

@puwaha, @patrike

question for you if you don't mind. I understand your argument for using 24hr averages (and preferably even longer) vs instant and having running switching no more often than once an hour or so. I'm still to see the results - I used to run switching every 1-5 minutes with a high threshold for switching, like 30-40% (call it 1/1/30). I need to run it for the whole day or 2 to make a conclusion. But here's a problem that surfaced right away when using 24hr/1hr pattern (i'll call it 24/1/10) - bad pools. So if I run 1/1/30 and the pool is bad, which can be manifested in multiple ways, for instance AM keeps restarting a miner saying that the process is not running (though accepted # keeps ticking) or no accepted blocks are coming in, then the pool will potentially quickly drop off the top of the profitability table and AM will happily switch to (hopefully) a non-corrupted pool. Now if the same problem arises during my 24/1/10 configuration, I'm potentially screwed for hours - the best AM miner can do here (I wish it could be more intelligent dealing with multiple restarts, except just stop trying after X times and stopping the miner in the process) is to keep restarting the miner, which does no good, since it keeps going back to the same corrupted pool. Have you run into something like this before (btw, it seems that lots of pools are having problems in the last couple days)? How would you deal with it?

PS: I find it quite useful to monitor the # of accepted blocks in the last 3-5 minutes and if that number stalls force profit switching and restarting the rig. HOWEVER, and that might be another question, it seems that AM has a "miner not running, restarting" routine that's run outside of the rules framework and I can't figure out how to intercept it and, potentially, force it to run a profit switching before restarting the miner - have you ever dealt with that one?

Thanks!

Firstly, please stop calling AM misleading, lie, paiments, value totally wrong shown by AM ... etc. FYI, users should read
http://www.awesomeminer.com/help/coinstats.aspx

of course prediction could be polished, but that might not be a top priority, something like MPH's normalization formula and you still get tons of complaints as to the accuracy of so called "most profitable" all the time.

if one is so good at always mining the most profitable coin and at any instant of spike switch thinks they being scammed and conned, I don't know what to say, maybe that's the reason why we're still mining and not billionaires cause mining is the DUMB way to get rich quick?

You have full control, disable algos you think always spiking, change profit factors, mine at different pools...or like SP said, buy lots of hardwares until you are at full capacity THEN you go and pay 0.5 BTC for his mod, who cares he makes 18 Trillion selling his mod of ccMiner, some ppl simply are willing to pay for that price tag, and if you are jealous, maybe you can find some cheap labour somewhere from the country you mentioned, and team up with them and make a better mod and make 500 gazillion from it.

I suspect if you want to make switching smarter, you might be able to do so with C# scripting, why not go learn programming and try it out since Patrike dedicating 70hrs per week on AM is still getting no impressions, and if he do, maybe there will be outcry of jealousy that he might just rip everyone off selling AM...darn, why is it not free? OH WAIT? there is a free version available!

Lastly, maybe one'd not ever gonna learn scripting and optimizing already available settings cause everything must be done and handed to them on silver platter, which means not even reading the log files...yes, it's under Tools -> Log file button...double click on it and open with say the lamest editor, Notepad

press Ctrl-F and enter the search term "Profitability Information" (without quotes), check if that log entry matches the interval you set for the stats update...oh wow...it matches!....gosh....damn, gotta pay someone to do this too maybe?

Trying to set up a new mining software as in the managed software section of the AW help website. I can make it work by specifying the path to the mining software on any particular rig but that means making a separate template for each rig. How can I set things so that one template will work for all rigs? I tried putting the miner software in the same folder as all of AW's miners but that doesn't seem to help.

This happens for all of us. After changing the algo, it stays a few minutes and after that goes to a small amount, less than 50% the amount you was doing previously, before changing the algo. Spikes are taken and also during that spike, the issue is that the amount that you are actually being paid by the pool is also much less, so AM just changes and shows you that is making an amount that is even 4 times more the amount that you are actually being paid, and this is misleading, showing the user a values that is a lie, something 4 times higher it is something that should be fixed and users should check for real pool paiments, instead of values totally wrong shown by AM.

It must be a solution for problems like this one. If you put a minimum amount, AM should automatically change to next best algo different than current one with the amount higher than the limit you specified.  With this solution, you won't have to wait minutes until next statistics pull from the server and see the profitability go from $90/day/rig to just $5/day/rig in just a few seconds, it is disastrous to see this difference.


Also another important thing is the frequency AM reloads pool statistics. Is it the same amount of minutes that is used to load statistics form whattomine, or is it more often ?  Where can we configure pools statistics reload frequency ?

What do you think ?

I'll have to look at that a bit. I have my doubts that would do exactly what i'm talking about as most of the time, they are well above 15% more.  Even 50% I think you would still be grabbing the spikes.  Multipoolminer checks these and basically determines how likely they are to stay at the level they are at rather than having you mine something that supposedly is doing very high for a minute only to get exchanged for next to nothing.

Is there a way to set a threshold for profit mining? Lets say if there is no auto-switching-profit that gives me over 8 usd with my 1080ti cards per day, then I want them all to mine some specific coin/algo that I believe in?

As puwaha told, in "profit switching" setup you can set the profit switch threshold and the switching interval in minutes.
You can also choose between "current" and "24 hour average" (Options -> Statistics -> Statistics settings).

why can't I use the zpool multialgorithmic, MPH for extraction in the present or 24 hours on these pools?

you can give a link where you can download X17SPmod?

Yes, go to the Options, Profit switching tab... then enable the Profit switching threshold.  Set a percentage that you are comfortable with.  If you set it to 15% for example, then the spiking algo/coin has to be 15% more profitable than what you are mining now.

Thank you,  I didn't know you could do this, I thought it was only specific to the miner itself.  I created another miner for the specific algo that I needed to lower the intensity.  This way would have been easier.

Does this have any type of switching prevention or other formula like multipoolminer does to stop you from mining every single spike on a coin?   As it is now, my choice is current stats which means I'm typically mining a coin for one or two minutes that by the time it gets exchanged is nowhere near as profitable or I'm using 24hr stats which means I'm basically just mining bitcore.

I am really sorry if this is already reported.
In Options -> Managed software -> Algo, if I enter an "user defined command line argument" (for instance, "-i 25" for setting wanted intensity for that algo), miner startup fails.
Using "diagnostics", I can see it reads wrong command line parameter.
This is useful in profit switching, since each algo could perform better with a different intensity parameter.
Tested with ccminer 2.2.4, autodownload.

[edited]
Fixed, if I enter "algo -i 15" it works correctly: this command line replaces the default one, I thought it was an additiona parameter.
Thank you.

Suggestion:  I run AMD rigs and I run Nvidia rigs.  There are pools that I will never use with AMD and there are ones I will never use for Nvidia.  It would be nice if the pool list could filter out the pools I don't want so I don't even have to look at them (I have a LOT of pools defined).  I'm thinking you could add a selector on the miner setup where you select AMD or NVidia and also on the pool setup.  It's a minor thing but would be helpful.  I suppose you could even take this concept to ASICs as well.

Thnx a bunch...

Claymore's Cryptonight, Ethereum and ZCash miners all work, SGMiner works. Mostly it lives on Ethereum, sometimes I manually switch to Cast XMR when I notice the Cryptonight prices go up on my CPU miners since Cast is so much faster than Claymore.

In terms of Algos from my benchmark list:

Blake 2b
CryptoNight
Equihash
Ethereum
Groestl
Lyra2REv2
Myriad-Groestl
Qubit
Scrypt
SHA-3
Skein
X11

I believe there is a bug with Claymore dual mining etherium and dcr/pasc possibly when using nicehash.

With nicehash configured for to check for current profitability, when the miner runs Eth + DCR despite under the miner view details that Eth + Pasc profitability ($2.71) > Eth ($2.65) > Eth + DCR ($2.46).

Under process information it shows AM will continue to load DCR by selecting -dcoin dcr instead of pasc.

Is there a setting that I am missing to set? It seems like AM keeps defaulting to DCR but I can't figure out what I need to change.

Hi everyone can someone tell me which algos and miners work with profit swiching while mining with vega...

Has anyone been able to mine LUX using AMD and sgMiner? I cannot get it working for the life of me. It just gpu not detected every single time.

The past days came with a lot of errors when miner tries to connect to mining pools like zpool, hashrefinery and last 12 hours also ahashpool.
It seems all few pools that are preconfigured in AM are overloaded and refuse new connections.

Is it possible to add also some more pools in AM default installations to allow users to dissipate load, because too many miners on the same place is affecting all of us .

It is a problem because for pools it is like a ddos attack.

Can you add some more pools that have  statistics api for integration ? Or anyone has a list of reliable pools to use besides default ones that are promoted by AM default installation ?