Topic: WinMiner v1.126a - auto switch windows app for multi miner optimization - page 60. (Read 101150 times)

I second that

Hi Team,

Recently installed Winminer in my Windows 2016 Data Centre with Xeon E7 8891 V4 in it. But in "available mining device" not detecting my CPU at all.

Just wondering this version of windows is supported or not?

Sorry if I missed any relevant post regrading the same.

-Dogger

Thats the only coins supported by the CPU miners provided

@ Winminer team

hi guys.
two questions for you.

1. I am doing CPU only mining, and even though "All Coins" is selected, the only coins mined are either XMR or KRB. Manually trying and selecting anything other tan the mentioned 2 results in "No Jobs From Server"
Is this a normal behaviour ?

2. Any chance you could add Windows server Core to supported OS list? At the moment the app doesn't see the CPU at all in server 2016 core.     

Thanks
 

WinMiner was originally built for managing the mining of our own mining farm. It continues to do so today and we keep making it better with our own insight together with the wisdom of our contributing users. This is to say that, our interests here are aligned, we are miners like you are and strive for best overall performance just like you do. We are the first to suffer from inefficiencies if such exist.

Specifically to your points:

(1) Hashrate - is it really constant?
The short answer is yes. The more accurate answer is divided into two: (a) Hashrate of a GPU generally has a certain max value, but it does sometimes fall beneath it. It could be for a shorter or longer periods of time and may be the results of overclocking, environmental conditions, operating system, drivers, CPU load (which may have a substantial impact on GPU performace) etc.; and (b) Coins having a DAG, e.g. Ethereum, mean that your hardware hashrate will change every few days (e.g. 5 days in the case of Ethereum).
To avoid a situations in which a system performance is based on the wrong hashrate reading, whether the result of a sudden drop or changing DAG, we decided to have the benchmarking run once every 24hrs.

(2) Can all coins based on the same algo be bechmarked by just one coin?
The short answer is yes. The more accurate answer is again divided into two: (a) Non ethash coins - bechmarking one coin is sufficient, and that is what we do; and (b) ethash coins (ETH, ETC, EXP, UBQ, MUSIC, DBIX etc.) - benchmarking needs to be done taking into account the DAG size - and that is what we do (here we minimize the need for benchmarking by categorising the coins into groups based on their DAG size and doing benchmarking once for the entire group).

Is there room for further optimization? - definitely
Are we working at it? - we sure do.



 

Why dou feel the need to rebenchmark my miners every day?  my hashrates haven't changed. 

While were at it, why do you feel the need to benchmark every coin permutation?  This is pure laziness on your side.  You can easily calculate profitability for all coins of the same algorithm by benchmarking one coin.  Don't make us pay for your laziness.

We need custom miner settings ASAP...

web live view is much more stable now and alows to delete non active host`s and yes delete realy works

the bad thing now it kills my own xmr-stak instances mining to hold xmr
i had always running one xmr-stak cpu or amd running beside winminer to mine xmr without looking at profits just to mine to hold coins

@ winminer team
great work and thank you for using xmr-stak cpu
xmr-stak cpu performs so much better on my cpu`s than claymore  ~100 h/s more


but winminer still counts profits wrong http://up.picr.de/30275472aq.jpg

http://up.picr.de/30275489qy.jpg

threads are bound to even cores over both cpu`s what is abosltly correct  but it counts the profit double on the web and software interface
the earned proft on the statistc page is correct
so it shows double the profit than i get

next goal xmr-stak amd for the r9 users brings much higher xmr to and is also much more stable than the claymore ones.
and less influences between  gpu and cpu miner working on xmr with claymore the  hash rate dropped hard
dual xeon e5645 and xfx R9 290 8 gb ~1100 h/s xmr-stak  vs 800-900 h/s
I will also test an old gtx760 with gpu-stak nvidia the next days to see differences in performance

WinMinerTeam,

PLEASE stop overwriting the miners if we make changes, particularly with the new xmr-stack-cpu, which requires editing the config file to tune.  You are only using 2 threads when it should be using 4 on my hardware (quad core CPU).  If I make changes to the config file, it overwrites them.

v1.76a is out to users who opted in to testing experimental versions -

We promised XMR-stak for CPU


and now its here... - we are waiting for your feedback

Many thanks to -

BTW i'm installed on my Windows comp. Awesome product

Are u think to develop Mac version ?

Indeed a very good idea 
It is part of the WinMiner master plan, though this is not on the short term list...

I suggest adding output to USDT

Thanks for sending the logs.

It seems you are using virtual machines for the mining. This is really not recommended.
When the WinMiner software does not find shares for some time it restarts the miner, if this persists, the system identifies the miner as bad and ceases to use this miner. Using a virtual machine significantly increases the likelihood of such a scenario due to the weaker performance of the VM. 

Performance from a host machine will be better than the performance of the VM running on it.

For privacy reasons, the balance is shown on the WinMiner window only after you enter your password.
Please enter password and let us know if you encounter any issues.

There could be a couple of reasons for such a situation - hardware differences (e.g. even GPUs of the same model probably differ on their ASIC quality), OS and drivers differences (no two installations are the same) computer state during the benchmarking could be different, and more.. its really hard to say without thoroughly examining the case.

If you would like to overwrite the WinMiner optimization logic you can simply force WinMiner to mine the coins you want it to - so in your case you can simply choose only KRB if you so wish, though this is not recommended as coins attractiveness and availability for mining changes rapidly (e.g. SIGT block size halved and will soon cease being POW, DMD in 10 days will cease to be POW, etc..)

Coming up really soon 

Thanks for your support!