Topic: Two stage performance tuning for S9 / S9i (include version for immersion cooling (Read 2730 times)

Yep the Russian firmware is awesome, it seems to work just out of box really, I wonder how long it took them to test it, but how do you know it is 7％? How to find out about this I am curious? If we know the hidden pool it uses, perhaps we can block it by firewall?

Thanks for the response.

You are right, but if you could combine the power saving from ASIC boost and the settings within this firmware would save even more energy.

The latest version from bitmain solved the issues with the pools, specifically slushpool.

Fix Fan

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asic boost reduces power consumption, similar or better results can be achieved simply by reducing the voltage on the boards in manual or automatic mode. Besides, not all pools support the asic boost function.

Are you planning on implementing ASIC boost into this firmware? I was using this firmware before but i switched back to Bitmains version with ASIC boost. I would love to switch back if ASIC boost was put into this firmware.

Thanks!

IS there a version 8 with autofan ?

Yep 

Downloading now. Does this version use the new asic boost that bitmain just came out with? Or does it fix the sawtooth?

Hello!
Have you checked on the latest version - 8a?

Hello developer. I like the firmware except for the “saw tooth” hash rate. It seems the miner stops hashing for about 5 minutes every 60 minutes or so. Can you explain why it does this as it’s resulting in probably a 10% decrease in hash rate negating the benefit. If you could mak it where it does do this and takes advantage of the new asic boost it would be greatly appreciated

thanks, I was on vacation )

Welcome back developer0

Hello!
Long testing has shown that the tuning of the chips is redundant, and therefore turned off. To avoid interruptions

Please test it

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1g_0-465olHNm2AkVvuVMAorY9vTSlnRJ

There is no Dev Fee,just I checked in "Awesome Miner" and I didn't see any extra hidden dev fee pools.. But the firmware is reducing hashrate after some minutes,I think it's happening because of voltage issue. Unfortunately this firmware useless for me..

I'm using a Russian firmware "xilinx-antminer-s9-s9i-1.0.7" for S9 13.5 th and I have got result 16.5 th without any issues with 1600w apw3++ psu. But unfortunately having %7 dev fee,damn this russian guy really made a masterpiece firmware..  if anybody can disable dev fee just pm me.. I can pay for it really..

hey is there really a hiden dev fee? let me see the screenshot am not seeing it on the link below

confirmed. there is a hidden dev fee. Tested it for fun on 120 s9s. see the saw in the image https://drive.google.com/a/wisdek.com/file/d/1fqepQQMsHyJ6P6d0kCZ0qebfgbDzx4oA/view?usp=drivesdk

I would not mind buying it without dev fee.

ok so i did some research and testing of the obove firmware and below is what i concluded and found out

* The firmware is awesome,however there is hidden dev fees, yes thats when the machine constantly reboot or restart. This person program his firmware to restart every 5 or so minutes to set his mining wallet then after few minutes the system come back to normal.

Other than that good firmware but i would definitely stay away from this firmware.

Another thing is that there is a script that get run on the kernellog thats routing and unknown ip to a 40 something port, never seen that with antminer log before

s9 13.5th am getting stable 16 th currently but am wondering if the temp reading are correct

One of fellow had problems with S9 13.5T model.
What type/model/speed of S9 have you used?

working really awesome on my s9. hope there is no dev fee or hidden dev fee. this firmware is one of the best i have come across so far, temp is very low on it. again really nice work

hey and how do i change the freq from 687 to higher? do you have any firmware that has freq higher than 687? miner advanced wont let me change freq because its fixed

another thing the miner gui vanishes every 5 or so minutes then come back up. am thinking this is your way of implimenting your dev fee. if not please fix it

Hi,

Its possible to put some mining fee for some pool with your software?

A couple of Questions
with psu rated at 1600W what would be the best settings to ensure that all running smooth and avoid psu blow up?
should I limit frequency to 725? would it be ok to use 1650W as measured on S9?

Fix Fan: Device does not provides control of fans,so the fans working with 100% rpm, all kinds of situation (if you don't have cooling room then you should choose this)
Auto Fan: Device provides control of the fans,so the fans behave according to the temperature of the environment (if you have cooling room system you should choose this)

Can someone explain the difference between the fix fan and auto fan version?

We are using s9, the advertised hash-rate for that batch of miner is 11.85th/s.
It looks like the reset issue in 7a is not solved.
Miner constantly restarting over and over again even after it ran through the config process. hw errors are low to non existent at all so im not really sure why the firmware is set to reboot the miner over and over again. its so bad that the pool i use shows my hashrate is only 400gh/s out of the reported 13.2th/s on the status page and thats because it spends almost as much time restarting than it does actually mining.
Using the latest v7a.
Any ideas

after i go back to the stock firmware the miner runs at 11.7xxth/s all day non stop.

hi.

i have 13.5th old s9. freq 637,637,612mhz per board and 0,9v. i have trouble. then i use 650fix freq or youre firmware in my s9
in second board one chip have 8900th speed and in panel my speed showing incorectly.
in autofreq firmware  bitmain use some autofix for incorrect chips and my total th is showing rightly.
can you add this bitmain fix in youre firmware?

I have two APW3++ 1600W and one 1800w PSU so I want to combine with two 13.5 th S9's,how can I pin with six hashboards? and what should I setting the voltage and freq? I want above 16 th.. Can you help me please?

I have only 7a If you need help, please write: devpool001 at gmail.com

here you are:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1uS08sRIuDlEZlR7D_7ulK5IVWp18PGTB

Right, some software, awesome for example can add more pool, than 3

"The web interface does not display all the pools that are in the configuration file, but only first 3"

But you see the 4th pool on the screen short. Right?

Well, a feedback about 7b from other miner: "i let it auto tune the miner to the most efficient setting but the miner (which chose the voltage and freq itself) stopped mining again and just sat there after a few minutes. this chip checking feature that was added just wont work and keeps stopping the miner from actually mining."

thank you.

you need to connect to the device (via ssh default login: root, password: password) and execute the command:

cat /config/bmminer.conf

(save and post result)

The web interface does not display all the pools that are in the configuration file, but only first 3

Sorry, but I think this procedure is dangerous - someone can put fans at 20% (for example) and at night it will be enough, and in the afternoon the ash will overheat. I have built-in protection against overheating, but I do not want to test it

Full screenshot and logs added: https://1drv.ms/f/s!ArNwsEYWIidwgeJKlXAsdIIygiltqQ

can you send full screen?

Hi developer

It looks like v7a creates 4th pool by self and it is not point to right one. Hope it is not added dev. pool.
Could you fix it.
Pool status screenshot is here:https://1drv.ms/f/s!ArNwsEYWIidwgeJKlXAsdIIygiltqQ

To make it more perfect, could you also add a possibility for manual % fan speed control?

Could you also add the NO_FAN version, as usually

The chips were checked every 10 minutes, and if they were faulty, they were corrected and rebooted. Now I changed the algorithm, there will be fewer reboots, if I can not correct all the chips, then there will be no more reboots.

in Kernel Log you can see which chips are corrected and to what value

Sorry for delay, new version here (with auto fan and fix fan):
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YQavbX5RV7zqco4KKJAqPLmv1-N-CQgr

10 minute resets confirmed by other testers too.

Feedback (does not mean 100% right):
1) "S9 works, but every 10 minutes it climbs to check the devfee pools. Pools are disabled, so every 10 minutes the ASIC is rebooted with this firmware."
2) "Loaded into S9, worked 10 minutes and fell off the pool, connected again to the pool worked again 10 minutes and again fell off.
Happens and works on the pool for 30 minutes, then did not check."
3) "One of the S9 with firmware 6b goes into reboot every 10 minutes."

Hi developer

Tested on 3 different versions of S9
Results:
1)S9 13.5T resets (every 10 minutes)
2)S9i resets (every 10 minutes)
3)But one old S9 is OK

Kernel logs are here: https://1drv.ms/f/s!ArNwsEYWIidwgeJDG3-vG0ZqYYbX5A

Thank you for your work

I can return the auto fan, but the temperature will be higher. This is how the standard firmware behaves by default, constantly changing the speed of the fans, after the asic warms up.

Hello!
Please send the results of the Kernel Log page. it seems like a reduction in the frequency for individual chips, tomorrow I will make a new version

Hi developer,

Could you please explain is it Ok when S9 miner is reset about every 10mins when auto-tune is disabled?
How to avoid it? Any suggestions?

Thank you.

I have problem with your firmware.
My antminer constantly restarting, even on default settings. (650 mhz frequency, 880 voltage).
I have turned off auto tuning.
With original firmware - no restarts. Could you explain what is wrong?

I tested and result is good, except without "Auto Fan" - "Auto Reload Page" - "Auto Reboot when Hashrate if Low" features.. Can you add this features? it would be the best S9 firmware ever I quess

Confirm.
It will be good to have the option to choose fan % or Auto.

since the main purpose of the firmware is overclocking, to reduce the risk of overheating, the fans are forcibly set to 100%

I have tried the v6b..........the fans remain on 100% and dont auto increase or decrease.

Is there any way to enable autofan or fixed to a specific speed.

FAN PWM: 0
read_temp_func Done!

Thanks..

They are used.... cpu temp in miner stats is the average of all individual chips on each hasboard.

Actually you are the incorrect one here. There are many temperature sensors not used on the board because they are part of each hashing chip. Speaking on technical things you dont understand just makes you look a bit silly.

ready:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1lLeA3DCAOpyJUBi1zIBe2fslFto7_ckt

But remember that this version is only for immersion cooling! 

Could you also add v6b with no check fan?

Thanks for testing, a rare error was fixed - the pool was not activated

new version (6b) here:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YQavbX5RV7zqco4KKJAqPLmv1-N-CQgr

I left the autotune alone for over 8 hours.
Then I disabled autotune and rebooted the miners. It took less than a minute to get back on.
However, the two pools still appear to be dead. Only ViaBTC pool is alive.

Thank you for testing! To understand what is the matter, specify: 1) did you try to restart, after the completion of auto-tuning 2) how long did it take after rebooting?

I did not check this combination of pools, until it is clear what the problem may be

Currently testing the firmware and it seems to do what it's supposed to do after a few PSU trips during autotuning.
However, 2 pools does not seem to get registered and always show as "dead". On default bitmain firmware, they all work fine.
Are you able to figure out what could be the issue?

stratum+tcp://prohashing.com:3333- Dead
stratum+tcp://sha256.hk.nicehash.com:3334- Dead

This is thread is funny, why are you trolling this guy in his own thread? have you even tried his firmware? I wanna try this firmware just hoping someone else would first... lol

You realize the GPL license is what requires the blissz firmware for the L3 and D3 to have their thread closed.

I understand you're just jealous liar, I will not answer you
Goodbye  

Go to the russian forums hell they can even be found on youtube lol.

Anyways... Please release the source code as you are violating the GPL license of cgminer/bmminer.

No, I wrote my code, much better.

If you stopped flooding and discussed the firmware that did not install and did not test, then maybe you could also develop something useful  

You did not install my firmware, did not check its capabilities, why do you continue to discuss it? What is your problem?

And please send a link to the source code, where for each board the optimal frequency and voltage is selected. And then the frequencies for the chips are selected.

If you do not send, I'll start to think that you're just an envious liar  

You mean you uncommented it since from bitmaintools git they have it commented out....

What the heck is flooding?

You realize many people have done that check the russian subforums.

Does your version of bmminer show temperatures on all types of sensors? No? Go work, stop flooding in other people's topics

Or try to make auto tuning on the boards, and then on the chips, choosing the optimal frequency for everyone.

Where did I say that in your thread?

You just stated I compiled cgminer... No... hahahaha. bmminer is the thing your tweaking which you should know since all the modifications you did are done in bmminer. Honestly it looks like you just cloned a repo and compiled as a firmware after adding a dev fee.

Also since you clearly don't know what your doing you said...


You know how dumb that is. There are not unused sensors. You think you can just program a sensor and it magically appears on the hashboards this is just funny...


Thermal Throttling still works if you actually read over the stock source code as there is still the pcb temp and the chip temp of surrounding boards.

The reason sometimes it doesn't report temp is because the pic is controlled over a serial bus rather than an interrupt driver being polled. If the thread reading is busy it misses the data and doesn't read the temp. or if too many threads they overwrite. The same interface is used to control frequency and voltage.

I do not have and will not have a firmware version for T9 for one reason: I do not have my T9 to test it, and without testing I will not post. Although the technical firmware for T9 and S9 is one and the same.

"Hashboard do not report temps but will still mine. Possible good and bad. If you have a hashboard with no temp reading it may work just fine with this mod. The miner will still stop mining if it overheats."

Instead of wasting time writing stupid messages in my topic, it's best to figure out how to do the firmware (and not just compile cgminer) and how to read the temperature on new devices. And yes, if you do not know how to read the temperature on new sensors, how will the process stop if the chips overheat   ?

My firmware reads the temperature from different sensors, and not only from those that were in the source code from bitmain

Because someone wrote about it in your topic in reference to yours so I responded to him... Just read the thread no reason to ask how x came up when it's right infront of you.

it's all interesting, but why write this in my topic? The first version I developed in May, and here I published it in late July, because I tested and corrected it. I think the moderator will remove this off topi

Someone flashed a firmware meant for s9 and t9 on their t9 and it bricked their t9. the dev then said they never tested it and used it for marketing since they took a dev fee which is retarded.

I speak only for my version, since I personally updated more than 200 s9 and there were no problems that can not be solved. How do other firmware I do not know

Yeah we are trying to help that fella in my thread.


No you can't If it gets bricked on a firmware version it's a bitch to flash the pic on the hashboard.

You can always go back to the factory settings, if you have questions, i will help 

I have heard about one guy who installed a S9 custom firmware, and after that was not able to return to original one. But, may be it was his fail or wrong settings.

Oh, it's too big a risk - to install the firmware for one s9 and if you do not like it, then remove it  

Do we have the brave man?
 Who will check this firmware and share with us if everything is OK.

autotune results:
https://imgur.com/a/TkE7Lc2
https://imgur.com/GwruZGu
https://imgur.com/Y0JTLvd

1) After the first stage of the tuning, the frequencies of 762 were selected for boards with different voltages from 0.88 to 0.9

2) At the second stage for three chips was the frequency decrease from 762 to 756 and 731

As a result, the performance 16.4 TH on a standard power supply

Ok, in the evening I will do

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1A2yvnT9zHzTLTUN8tTrFUZOIP_ssthi1
https://drive.google.com/open?id=18qnilC7m_9xLEeEVmyAuK9iNg1J25WPF

OK. Could you just provide screen shorts of your miner setting and log tabs.
Thanks.

Screen from the pool, where some of the devices on this firmware are running

I'm a developer, not a marketer, I'm currently working on firmware for D3, and there's no time to come up with names

My internal version number 6a.

main feature: the maximum hash rate with minimum consumption and the number of hardware errors

without dev fee, but if you need any special improvements, it is for the payment

How to add a screenshot on the forum?

Hello,

Could your provide screen-shorts? Images?
Do you have a "name" for your firmware?
Version number?
The list of features?
Any dev. fee?

Thank you

This is my first topic here. Why do you think this is a scam? Do you have any arguments, or it is just a guess?

I've been doing this firmware for myself, has been running for almost three months on 200+ devices

I wait for denials that this is a scam, or I will inform the moderator of your incorrect behavior

Let me guess, after failing at this thread: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/dollemizer-firmware-asicboost-comming-custom-s9-s9i-t9-firmware-upgrade-2832499
You have made a new account to scam more people?

Two stage performance tuning for S9 / S9i (include version for immersion cooling)

I present the firmware with two-step optimization of performance (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1YQavbX5RV7zqco4KKJAqPLmv1-N-CQgr?usp=sharing):

1) At the first stage, the optimal frequency and voltage parameters are auto selected for each board depending on the profile. For example, to achieve maximum performance, different frequencies are set
(600, 612, 625, 637, 650, 656, 662, 668, 675, 681, 687, 693, 700, 706, 712, 718, 725, 731, 737, 750, 756, 762, 768, 775, 781, 787, 793, 800)
 at a voltage of 0.88, the analysis is performed for 150 seconds, the amount of hardware error (HW), hash rate is analyzed. The measurements are repeated for the voltage of 0.89 and 0.9 (0.9 nominal voltage for 13.5 Th). Thus, the optimal frequency and voltage parameters for each board are obtained and recorded in the configuration file

2) To further improve performance, the hash rate of each chip is analyzed every 10 minutes. If the performance of the chip is lower by 15% or too high, then the frequency is individually selected for this chip in automatic mode.

With a standard power supply (1.8kW), a performance of 16.5-17 Th is achieved with a minimum amount of HW and no increase in power consumption.

After installing the firmware, the chip setup and correction mode starts at 750 frequency.
Autotuning profile changes and manual setup for each board are performed on the MinerConfigaration web page. The results of optimization work can be seen on the System -> Kernel Log page

Version for immersion cooling (does not check for fans!) (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lLeA3DCAOpyJUBi1zIBe2fslFto7_ckt?usp=sharing)