Topic: lolMiner 1.64: Fastest Kaspa miner in market - page 140. (Read 155964 times)

brilliant work!
Thanks so much, finally a proper 192,7 zero miner for windows/amd.
Runs perfect on my old r9 290x soldiers ~15 Sol/s

So, I did some more coding last week and so there is an update: lolMiner 0.43

Download Links:
[Lin 64]: Click me (0.43 for Linux)
[Win 64]: Click me (0.43 for Windows)

here are the virustotal reports for the two executables:
Linux: https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/dc2efb304b84ab92d1f085ecf61d1e470ce366f3801233072bead2809b0b3c9b
Windows: https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/1325784f9a9ff11bb077cc66937b66c28422d4e71dd46ae959ccad87d7799065

Hint: As you can see the Microsoft Windows defender detects the mining software as "PUA:Win32/CoinMiner " (Surprise ... its mining coins   ). So if you have trouble with it better replace the defender by any other anti virus (e.g. I use Avira AntiVir, which is also free) and you are fine.  


Detailed Changelog:

Added 192.7 Algorithm with coins Zero (ZER) and SafeCash (SCASH)

lolMiner now supports the Equihash 192.7 algorithm. The two coins supported are Zero (ZER) and SafeCash (SCASH). At the moment the miner requires 3.7 GB GPU memory, so 3G cards are not supported. Nvidia 4G cards can mine with new “DISABLE_MEMCHECK” switch (see below).

There should not be a performance difference between 4G and 8G GPUs!

Expected performance:

AMD:
RX 550 (4 G): 3 sol/s      (to be confirmed)
RX 560 (4 G): 5-6 sol/s
RX 570:   11-12 sol/s
RX 580:   12-13.5 sol/s
Vega 56:   18-20 sol/s

Nvidia:

GTX 1080 (stock FE): 20 sol/s+
GTX 1080ti: 30 sol/s+


Added support for zergpool Equihash 144.5 auto profit switching

You can now connect to equihash144.mine.zergpool.com to use its auto coin switching / auto exchanging capacities. The needed setting is “COIN” : “AUTO144” or -coin=AUTO144


Added switch to disable memory check

Use “DISABLE_MEMCHECK” : 1 or -disable_memcheck=1 to turn of the miners compatility memory checking. This fixes a problem with the Nvidia driver not reporting enough memory for Equihash 144.5 (3G & 4G cards) and 192.7 (4G cards)

Note: Disabling the memory check also implies the miner can no longer check how large the workbatch is allowed to be, so DO NOT USE THIS WITH EQUIHASH 96.5 (MinexCoin) . It will kill your performance.


Fixed support for open source Linux drivers

lolMiner should now be able to start on the open source Linux drivers but the performance is very much untested. Also for 144.5 and 192.7 the memory check may need to be disabled.

Fixed a bug with miner not starting without config file

As said, you now can delete the user_config.json and run completely without it by using the command line only. Note that the config file still has the advantage of storing your settings for multiple coins in one file as well as fail-over pool support. The filename and the used profile of config file can be changed by parameters (see manual).

Fixed a bug with miner not starting (hanging in setup)

It now can take a minute or two for the fail-over routine to kick in, but this should fix the problem.

Shortened the target printing to the first 16 characters

Previously printing 64, making the lines unnecessary long.

Added some colors (very subdued )

Stratum messages of new job, new target and submitted / accepted shares are now print in a green tone and the long statistics in some not too bright cyan. If you see a red message thats a stratum error message or a case where the server responded  {"id": 4, "result": false, "error": null}, which means a share got not accepted.

Know issues:
Sometimes the 144.5 and 192.7 codes run into the 0 sol/s bug even without OC. I hope to get rid of that in the next code iteration.

For some Nvidia GPUs specifying “WORKBATCH” : “HIGH” in config file leads to 0 sol/s from start. From command line it works fine. Investigating why.



Question is now: What am I coding next for 0.5?

Here I would like to have your feedback!

There is one thing I will do any ways: I tried a new code variant with the 192.7 miner that is there applied in the first two rounds of code. It turns out that this works quite well and so I would like to bring this for 96.5, 144.5 and 192.7 for both vendors next. This also will likely reduce the memory consumption of 144.5 to 2.4 G and of 192.7 slightly below 3G, so the 3G cards are back on board for 192.7.

But after that? You may decide!

Here is a list about the potential list of what I could do for 0.5:

- 210.9 (Aion) mining code
- 200.9 (Zcash, …) mining code
- A memory saving 144.5 variant (sub 2G, approx 10 – 15% slower then the large memory one)
- A memory saving 192.7 variant (sub 2G, approx 25 – 30% slower then the large memory one)
- An HTML version of the API (viewing)
- Coupling of multiple miners, so  API of one rig can show stats of whole farm
- Re-Design of stats module & API, e.g. logfile output and so on … need some more ideas here, comments welcome!

Regarding the last point in list: I definitely will never change fan speed or clocks in the miner, because this is responsibility of the driver or external OC tools. But what I could try is temp readings and an emergency switch off at high temps or so … do not know.

As said the main priority lies in the updated mining codes. That will take a while. Therefore I would say everyone commenting here or sending me a message in either telegram or discord is allowed to state two things from the optional list. I will evaluate in two weeks (Sept 12) and then work the list from top to bottom

Have a nice day all

Me...dummy

As stated above in this thread: you can not through the miner since I won't take the responsability for such a function. If your card gets so hot either part of cooling or fan setting is broken or you run far too much oc. Pls set fans and clocks with driver or afterburner.


Well a simple stat reading API is there. What functionality else would you like to see?

A simple API would be nice...since its propietary miner...

Hi all! Please private message me, how can I set the temperature control at mining?! My card gone up to 98 degree on hot days.. Its killing my card!
Please gelp and PM me! Thx!

rx480 13000s on MEDIUM , on high on the settings there is not enough memory, since there are only 2gb memory in the system. On the upcoming version, 2gb memory was enough for mining.

My miner does, its all OpenCL here ^^
Well your card has 4G, so the driver reports max usable memory in total is 4G, but max that may be in one region is 1G (1/4 th of it) ... but 144.5 needs one region with 1.2G currently.
For the next release I plan to introduce a switch bypassing the check (on own risk) but then your 3G and 4G cards will work

I've yet to see a miner that uses OpenCL with NVidia cards. Everyone uses CUDA with them greens. ))
I just wanted to try it out just to find out if it's worth using this miner with 1060s for eqhash144.

Why is it not running on GTX 980 4gb, still?

Depends a bit ... it closes the gap between 4G and 8G cards. Atm my code uses 3.6G and does on average 12.7 sol/s on a RX 580 4G (headless) - the 8G model will only be barely faster, maybe 13 sol/s. I think this is not so bad compared to optiminer ^^



Well we have to distinguish here between memory available and the memory that the driver allows us to use in a single buffer. For some reason the Nvidia OpenCL driver limits OpenCL that a single memory region may be at most 1/4th of the total memory in size. That said: the 144.5 miner code uses 2.8G, but requires that two buffers of 1.1G are created (and a 3rd with the missing 600 mb) ... so what happens here:
The check for enough total memory passes, but unfortunately the one for maximal single allocation fails.

Interestingly I just found out that CUDA has no such limitation and also sometimes it seems possible to allocate more then "CL_DEVICE_MAX_MEM_ALLOC_SIZE" tells on Nvidia (but not on AMD ... there it is a hard limit, but its often much higher then on Nvidia) ... so maybe I can do an option to ignore memory check on own risk ... hmm

It's not working on GTX980 4GB cards either. Same error msg.

Also note, equihash 144 is using less than 2GB RAM. It's the 192 that uses 2+ GBs.

3GB radeons (7950+) do work with 144.5

as far as i know, you cant use 3gb cards on that specific algo on this specific miner   (4gb+)
so its working as intended technically

For me only equihash96 is working on NVidia cards under Linux.

For equihash144 I get this msg:

lolMiner is configured to mine Bitcoin Gold(BTG), Equihash 144.5
Setup Miner...
Using device with id 0 (GeForce GTX 1060 3GB)
Using device with id 1 (GeForce GTX 1060 3GB)
Using device with id 2 (GeForce GTX 1060 3GB)
Using device with id 3 (GeForce GTX 1060 3GB)
Using device with id 4 (GeForce GTX 1060 3GB)
Using device with id 5 (GeForce GTX 1060 3GB)
Warning: Your device with id 0 is currently not supported by lolMiner or by the specific algorithm you selected.
Warning: Your device with id 1 is currently not supported by lolMiner or by the specific algorithm you selected.
Warning: Your device with id 2 is currently not supported by lolMiner or by the specific algorithm you selected.
Warning: Your device with id 3 is currently not supported by lolMiner or by the specific algorithm you selected.
Warning: Your device with id 4 is currently not supported by lolMiner or by the specific algorithm you selected.
Warning: Your device with id 5 is currently not supported by lolMiner or by the specific algorithm you selected.

Awesome news!
I hope its gonna be faster than old optiminer

yeah , 13000 sols with rx 580 , at mining pool shws  13 mega/sols,
and with 144.5 shows 22 mega/sols..

Wtf... thats strange. The miner never writes ti the file. You unziped and then opend in text edit? When you save tten it should be saved and modified, everything else would surprise me!


Comming within next 4 days Code just entered testing
I think you mean scaled by 1000 ^^ RX 580 does 20 to 22 sol/s on 144/5 but 11000 to 12000 on 96/5 ^^
Expected is 96/5 to be approx 400 to 500x faster then 144/5 from theory. That fits pretty well

how about 192/7 zero support?

your miner won't allow me to edit the config file. I had it running once and now it will not restart. If I DL a new copy it runs fine but it won't allow me to edit the config file. when I try to cut your sample config and try to paste mine in it's place it always pastes in your sample again. any answers?