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Explanation of messages in the miner window

Explanation of messages in the miner window

Nov. 1, 2022, 5:48 p.m.

There are many different mining programs developed for cryptocurrencies mining. Each program has its own developer, features, pros and cons.

Some universal miners work with any type of graphics cards, and some miners work only with certain kinds of graphics cards.

Not every miner can mine any coin.
Not every miner can work with every graphics card.
You have to choose the miner according to the coin you will mine and your graphics card.

Kryptex automatically detects the most profitable miner for various coins and your graphics cards. Kryptex PRO — easy and intuitive two-click mining!

Among all the miners, we have chosen the four most popular ones to explain the information you will see in the miner's window.

We will look at Phoenix miner, NBMiner, T-rex miner and TeamRedMiner

After reading this article, you will be able to understand any data in any miner since the essential information for all miners is identical.

Phoenix miner

Phoenix miner is a popular and handy miner that fits both AMD and Nvidia cards.

Pros:

support -rxboost 1 setting for AMD RX 400\500 graphics cards, which allows squeezing another 1-2 megahashes out of these cards;
shows very detailed stats on rejected shares;
very good and finely tunable;
immediately writes logs;
supports -straps setting to optimize timings on Nvidia GTX 1000 series graphics cards and AMD Vega 56\64 cards.

Cons:

low compatibility with new AMD drivers;
does not unlock LHR on Nvidia RTX 3000 series graphics cards;
no WEB interface;
supports a few coins for mining.

What can you see in the miner window?

Information about the version of the installed GPU drivers on your PC.
List of installed graphics cards, which will be mining. Their manufacturers, models, PCIe bus number by OS definition, supported CUDA (Nvidia) and OpenCL (AMD) libraries, amount of VRAM, and the number of cu (computing units).
The list of pools is set for the miner, pool address, and port.
Brief information about driver initialization before mining. Error unable to set straps - unsupported GPU — means that the graphics card does not support argument straps.
It tells how to connect to the pool proto: EthProxy.
A summary of the state of the graphics cards. Their temperature, power consumption, fan speeds, total consumption, and mining efficiency.
Reports on successful connection to the pool. Pool address, port, IP address.
The process of launching the mining. The ID of the received work, pool address, and complexity of the shares on the pool (set by the pool). The process of DAG file generation, the amount of free memory of the graphics card, the time for which the DAG file is generated, and the epoch of the DAG file.
The total hash rate of all graphics cards, the ratio of all shares, and continuous running time were: 2666/22/18
- 2666 — total number of shares accepted by the pool of which;
- 22 — rejected shares, often due to Internet connection or just late shares — someone solved the problem earlier. There is no way to get rid of them completely, but it is believed that the "OK value" is 1-2% of the total number of all shares;
- 18 — damaged, incorrect — these shares appear in case of overclocking, graphics card error, or memory failure. The graphics card counts incorrectly (2+2=5).
Summary of the accepted shares for each graphics card. Here we see that the first graphics card (from point 2 — AMD RX 480 8Gb) processed 681/18. Of the 681 sent shares, 18 are wrong — it is worth paying attention to this graphics card. Need to reduce overclocking or check graphics cards for errors. Card counts 2+2=5.
Redline — always means wrong behavior or error. Pay attention to it. The miner reports that the GPU1 graphics card (from point 2 — AMD RX 480 8Gb) sent another invalid share. There is a problem with this graphics card.
A summary of the mining process:
- The ETC coin is being mined on the pool [etc.kryptex.network:7777](http://etc.kryptex.network:7777/) for 12 hours 18 minutes;
- DAG file epoch 268, DAG file size 3.09 GB;
- Summary of accepted, rejected, late, and incorrect shares;
- The share with the highest difficulty that was processed;
- Average hashrate for 5-minute measurement, effective hashrate, and hashrate on the pool. The hashrate on the pool is usually always lower because the pool does not look at the hashrate in the miner but calculates the hashrate relative to successfully accepted shares. Rejected, stales and incorrect ones are not counted or paid for.
NBMiner

NBMiner is a popular and versatile miner, suitable for both AMD and Nvidia cards.

Pros:
- High stability and good compatibility miner, works with any drivers and graphics cards.
- shows very detailed stats on rejected shares and graphics card status;
- very well and finely tunable;
- has a built-in WEB interface;
- can unlock Nvidia RTX 3000 series graphics cards with drivers not higher than 512.77;
- supports a wide range of coins.
Cons:
- Shows mediocre performance values for older AMD RX 400\500 cards
What can you see in the miner window?
1. Miner name and version.
2. Information about the system: operating system version, processor model, amount of installed and used RAM, amount of configured and used virtual memory (page file), graphics card libraries, and driver version.
3. Information about what is being mined. The algorithm, pool address, wallet address, worker name, and temperature limits for stopping and starting the miner.
4. Data about the state and overclocking (if available) of the graphics card: ID number, PCIe number in the system, supported CUDA version for Nvidia, the amount of VRAM, number of CU (computing unit), VRAM type, VRAM manufacturer, graphics card model.
5. Trying to connect to the pool, its address, port, and IP.
6. The message of a successful connection.
7. Address for the WEB API to control the miner.
8. The amount of free VRAM for the DAG file for mining.
9. The ID of the work received from the pool and the complexity of the shares on the pool (set by the pool).
10. Information on the generation of the DAG file, the epoch of the DAG file, writing time, and verification. If on stage DAG - Verification, you get the status not OK, but Error — check your overclocking or graphics card. The DAG file was written with an error.
11. A complete summary of mining on a graphics card, more details below:
- ID — serial number of the card in the miner. Note that the count goes from 0. There are eight cards installed.
- Device — a model of the graphics card.
- Hashrate — average value of the graphics card hashrate.
- Accepted — number of accepted shares from the graphics card.
- Reject — rejected shares. Most often as stale — late. There is no way to get rid of them, but it is believed that the "OK value" is 1-2% of the total number of all shares.
- Inv (Invalid) — the number of bad shares due to memory errors or overclocking when the card counts 2+2=5.
- Powr (Power) — graphics card consumption in watts.
- CTmp (Core Temperature) — core temperature, in degrees Celsius.
- MTmp (Memory Temperature) — memory temperature, in degrees Celsius (if there is a sensor).
- Fan — fan speed, in percentages.
- CCClk (Core Clock) — core frequency, in megahertz.
- GMClk (Graphics Memory Clock) — memory frequency, in megahertz.
- RV (Vendor) — manufacturer of the memory. Hy — Hynix, Sa — Samsung, Mic — Micron.
- MUtl (Memory Utilization) — memory controller load. During mining, usually 99-100%.
- Eff/watt — mining efficiency. The higher it is, the more efficient the card is mining. It is calculated by the formula: *megahashes*1000\watts=efficiency*.
T-rex miner

T-rex miner — miner for Nvidia graphics cards only. This miner will not work with AMD cards.

Pros:
- has a convenient built-in WEB interface;
- well and finely tunable;
- can unlock Nvidia RTX 3000 series graphics cards with drivers not higher than 512.77;
- can set up a handy watchdog;
- supports a wide selection of coins.
Cons:
- does not work with AMD graphics cards;
- low-informative and overloaded interface;
- does not separate rejected (stale) and invalid shares.
What can you see in the miner's window?
1. Miner's version and operating system.
2. The version of the graphics card driver.
3. The serial number of the graphics card, its ID, PCIe number, model, and VRAM.
4. Message about the developer's commission on the particular algorithm.
5. Pool connection parameters, pool address, ports, wallet address, worker name, and password (if required).
6. Data for connecting the WEB API interface.
7. The message refers to a specific ERGO algorithm and tells what part of the block the miner is processing.
8. A message about the successful connection to the pool.
9. The number of blocks mined on the pool and the complexity of the shares on the pool (set by the pool).
10. The intensity of using the graphics card by the miner. It can be set either manually or automatically. It does not affect the hash rate but the miner's stability. It is often not adjusted but left to the miner's choice.
11. Information on DAG file (for ETHW, ETC, RVN) or table (in case of ERGO). The volume of free memory after writing the DAG file or table.
12. The message is that the miner cannot control the fan speed on this card.
13. The time the DAG file was written, or the table was built into the graphics card memory.
14. The data about what pool is mining on and what is the complexity of the shares on the pool.
15. Data on the graphics card. Serial number, model, current hash rate. In braces — the temperature in Celsius, power consumption in watts, fan speed in percentage, and mining efficiency. The higher it is, the more efficient the card is mining. It is calculated by the formula: megahesh*1000\watts=efficiency. The ratio of 915/917, where 917 is the total number of shares sent by the graphics card, and 915 is the number of shares accepted by the pool. That is two shares rejected. R: — the percentage of rejected shares. It is calculated from the ratio of shares received and rejected by the pool. It is impossible to get rid of them completely, but it is assumed that the "OK value" is 1-2% of the total number of all shares.
16. The number of shares processed per minute. The current and average value for the current mining period.
17. Mining summary: Uptime — the time of the current session of uninterrupted mining from its start. What algorithm is being mined, the driver version and the miner version.
18. The miner reports that the share is accepted. Shows the ratio of the new shares, which the graphics card found the shares, what is the graphics card's hash rate, and the shares' confirmation time.
19. Summary of the table generation for the new coin block. In this case, it concerns only ERGO.
TeamRedMiner

TeamRedMiner — miner exclusively for AMD graphics cards. This miner will not work with Nvidia cards.

Pros:
- well and finely tunable;
- supports a wide range of coins;
- automatic graphics card tuning for extra performance, stability, and reduced consumption;
- reliable built-in watchdog;
- high compatibility with a large number of AMD graphics cards.
Cons:
- does not work with Nvidia graphics cards;
- overloaded interface;
- the developer refuses to support old cards in favor of new cards;
- No support for -rxboost 1 setting for AMD RX 400\500 cards, which allows squeezing another 1-2 megahashes out of these cards.
What can you see in the miner window?
1. Miner's version.
2. Process of detecting graphics cards in the system.
3. The miner has detected that the graphics card has compute mode enabled.
4. The miner supports automatic tuning and reports that the tuning has started. It will do it automatically and optimize the card consumption and its hash rate.
5. The miner informs that it has selected the optimal power consumption plan for the graphics card.
6. Starts the built-in watchdog.
7. The list of commands for quick configuration of the miner. They can be executed by pressing the appropriate key on the keyboard: h — help, s — stats, e — enable GPU, d — disable GPU, and q (quit) — stop and close the miner.
8. Successful initialization of the graphics card, its serial number, model range (Polaris — RX 400\500 graphics cards), number of CU (computing unit), and serial number of PCIe in the system.
9. Information about the connection to the pool, its address, port, IP address, and the message about successful connection.
10. Message about the complexity of the share (set by the pool), the current epoch of the DAG file, the coin being mined, in this case, etchash.
11. The message that the miner has connected to the developer's pool to mine the developer's commission.
12. A message that the cache for the DAG file has been successfully downloaded.
13. A message about the size of the DAG file, the process of writing to the VRAM, and the time it took to write it.
14. The miner gets work from the pool.
15. The pool successfully accepts the share. In brackets, graphics card number GPU0, the number of accepted and rejected shares a:1 accepted r:0 rejected. It is impossible to get rid of rejected shares completely, but it is accepted that the "OK value" is 1-2% of the total number of all shares. Share processing time in milliseconds 80 ms. The complexity of a particular share diff 2.09 GH (difficulty)
16. The number of graphics cards that mine on the current algorithm.
17. Graphics card status data:
  - GPU — serial number of the card in the miner. Note that the count goes from 0.
  - PCIe — PCIe number in the system.
  - CU (computing unit) — number of computing units.
  - CoreMHz — Core frequency, in megahertz.
  - SoCMHz (System-on-a-Chip) — Single-chip circuit frequency, in megahertz. Not shown for RX 400\500 cards.
  - TEdge — enclosure temperature, degrees Celsius.
  - TJct (junction) — temperature of the card's silicon chip, degrees Celsius.
  - TMem (memory) — temperature of memory, degrees Celsius. If there is no sensor — the miner takes the maximum temperature.
  - FanRpm (percent) — fan speed in percent.
  - FanRpm (Rotations Per Minute) — fan speed in revolutions per minute.
  - VDDC — Core voltage, in millivolts.
  - Power — graphics card power consumption in watts. AMD cards cannot show whole card consumption but only core consumption, so you can safely add +30 watts to know the total card consumption.
  - ETH Cfg — mining intensity configuration code, which the miner picked up for the graphics card in automatic mode.
18. Uptime — the time the miner has worked without stopping.
19. Information on the current graphics card hashrate, total farm hashrate, average hashrate, and pool hashrate. The hashrate on the pool is usually consistently lower because the pool does not look at the hashrate but calculates the hashrate relative to successfully accepted shares. Therefore, rejected, stale, and incorrect — are not counted and not paid. Also, the number of accepted and rejected shares a:6 accepted r:0 rejected, hw:0 (hardware error) number of bad shares due to memory mistakes or overclocking, when the graphics card counts 2+2=5.
20. The same information, but solely by hash rate on the pool.
Decided to start mining on your own? These articles will help you:
- How to Start Mining on Pools;
- How to create a bat file to start a miner;
- How to collect miner logs to understand all events;
- How to set up a watchdog so that mining works flawlessly;
- How to overclock or fine-tune the miner.
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