Problematic miner

painting · October 14, 2022, 2:14am

Think one of the miners is misbehaving. I don’t have any card dual mining with 2 different miners. The result of nvidia-smi should only show 1 miner on each card

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+                                                                               
| Processes:                                                                  |                                                                               
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                  GPU Memory |                                                                               
|        ID   ID                                                   Usage      |                                                                               
|=============================================================================|                                                                               
|    0   N/A  N/A      3225      G   /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg                  6MiB |                                                                               
|    0   N/A  N/A      3393      C   ...rs/bzminer/12.0.2/bzminer      100MiB |                                                                               
|    0   N/A  N/A      3575      C   ...miners/gminer/3.08/gminer     5036MiB |                                                                               
|    1   N/A  N/A      3225      G   /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg                  6MiB |                                                                               
|    1   N/A  N/A      3393      C   ...rs/bzminer/12.0.2/bzminer      100MiB |                                                                               
|    1   N/A  N/A      3435      C   lolMiner                         3360MiB |                                                                               
|    2   N/A  N/A      3225      G   /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg                  6MiB |                                                                               
|    2   N/A  N/A      3393      C   ...rs/bzminer/12.0.2/bzminer      102MiB |                                                                               
|    3   N/A  N/A      3225      G   /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg                  6MiB |                                                                               
|    3   N/A  N/A      3393      C   ...rs/bzminer/12.0.2/bzminer      150MiB |                                                                               
|    3   N/A  N/A      4012      C   ./miniZ                          2308MiB |                                                                               
|    4   N/A  N/A      3225      G   /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg                  6MiB |                                                                               
|    4   N/A  N/A      3393      C   ...rs/bzminer/12.0.2/bzminer      128MiB |                                                                               
|    4   N/A  N/A      4012      C   ./miniZ                          2286MiB |                                                                               
|    5   N/A  N/A      3225      G   /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg                  6MiB |                                                                               
|    5   N/A  N/A      3393      C   ...rs/bzminer/12.0.2/bzminer      128MiB |                                                                               
|    5   N/A  N/A      4012      C   ./miniZ                          2286MiB |                                                                               
|    6   N/A  N/A      3225      G   /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg                  6MiB |                                                                               
|    6   N/A  N/A      3393      C   ...rs/bzminer/12.0.2/bzminer      128MiB |                                                                               
|    6   N/A  N/A      4012      C   ./miniZ                          2286MiB |                                                                               
|    7   N/A  N/A      3225      G   /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg                  6MiB |                                                                               
|    7   N/A  N/A      3393      C   ...rs/bzminer/12.0.2/bzminer      128MiB |                                                                               
|    7   N/A  N/A      4012      C   ./miniZ                          2286MiB |                                                                               
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

painting · November 27, 2022, 2:19am

Is there a way to get bzminer not populate every card, even when not mining on that card?

Grea · November 27, 2022, 6:54am

You should be able to specify specific GPUs using the command in the miner config in the flight sheet. Should read the options for the miner you are using:

github.com

bzminer/bzminer/blob/main/README.md

## Why use BzMiner (v12.1.1)?
- Stable 100% LHR Unlock v1! (Tested on windows/linux drivers 465-511, see below)
- Supported Algos (default 0.5% dev fee):
    - Ethw (AMD, Nvidia)
    - Etchash (AMD, Nvidia) 
    - Ergo (AMD, Nvidia) 
    - Rvn (AMD, Nvidia)
    - Neoxa (AMD, Nvidia)
    - Olhash (AMD, Nvidia, 1% dev fee)
    - Alephium (AMD, Nvidia)
    - Kaspa (AMD, Nvidia, 1% dev fee)
    - Radiant (AMD, Nvidia, 1% dev fee)
    - Ixian (AMD, Nvidia, 1% dev fee, Not optimized for ubuntu 16.04)
    - Woodcoin (AMD, Nvidia, 1% dev fee, use config "algo_opt" to move some processing to cpu)
    - Zil (AMD, Nvidia, 0% dev fee)
    - Meowcoin (AMD, Nvidia)
- Optimized dual mining for specific coins:
    - Ethw + Alph (Nvidia only, experimental)
    - Ethw + Kaspa (Nvidia only, experimental)
    - Ethw + Radiant (Nvidia only, experimental)

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painting · November 27, 2022, 7:40am

@Grea
bz is a bit different. You don’t specify the gpus you want to use, but rather those you don’t want to use with the option disable

bz isn’t really running on all the cards, but has a process spawned in each card. In the listing above, bz is only running on card 2

Grea · November 27, 2022, 3:21pm

Sounds like a bz dev question. Guess I am getting spoiled seeing a few of the other devs daily in discord.

Hope your hunt is fruitful!

painting · November 27, 2022, 9:43pm

thanks. I posted in hive, since I wasn’t sure if the issue was in the way that bz is launched?

Besides already added too many miner discords lol

painting · December 7, 2022, 8:05am

seems that 12.2 fixes this

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+                                                
| Processes:                                                                  |                                                
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                  GPU Memory |                                                
|        ID   ID                                                   Usage      |                                                
|=============================================================================|                                                
|    0   N/A  N/A      3165      G   /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg                  6MiB |                                                
|    0   N/A  N/A      5956      C   ...miners/gminer/3.15/gminer     3870MiB |                                                
|    1   N/A  N/A      3165      G   /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg                  6MiB |                                                
|    1   N/A  N/A      5956      C   ...miners/gminer/3.15/gminer     3870MiB |                                                
|    2   N/A  N/A      3165      G   /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg                  6MiB |                                                
|    2   N/A  N/A      5956      C   ...miners/gminer/3.15/gminer     3870MiB |                                                
|    3   N/A  N/A      3165      G   /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg                  6MiB |                                                
|    3   N/A  N/A      6595      C   lolMiner                         3418MiB |                                                
|    4   N/A  N/A      3165      G   /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg                  6MiB |                                                
|    4   N/A  N/A      6809      C   ...rs/bzminer/12.1.1/bzminer      134MiB |                                                
|    5   N/A  N/A      3165      G   /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg                  6MiB |                                                
|    5   N/A  N/A      6809      C   ...rs/bzminer/12.1.1/bzminer      134MiB |                                                
|    6   N/A  N/A      3165      G   /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg                  6MiB |                                                
|    6   N/A  N/A      6595      C   lolMiner                         3394MiB |                                                
|    7   N/A  N/A      3165      G   /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg                  6MiB |                                                
|    7   N/A  N/A      6595      C   lolMiner                         3394MiB |                                                
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

aminer · December 7, 2022, 8:58am

With BzMiner you can use:
“disable”: “0 1 2”
to disable gpus 0 to 2 for example.

Then you can also add:
“hide_disabled_devices”: true

so that Bz doesnt list them.

painting · December 7, 2022, 10:12am

@miner

this was from nvidia-smi. The previous versions of bz would populate all the gpus with a process. Seems the new beta fixes that, and bz only runs on the cards which you want

On bz to use the disable command you need to give the actuall address, and not the gpu number. Hive offers an easier option to use the gpu number

"disable": "[5:0 7:0 8:0 9:0 11:0 17:0]"'

system · January 28, 2024, 1:13am

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