lolMiner 1.20

[2021-01-23]

github.com/Lolliedieb/lolMiner-releases/releases/tag/1.20

Release lolMiner 1.20 · Lolliedieb/lolMiner-releases

 

 

Changes (over 1.19)

• Significantly improved Ethash mining speed on R9 390 (+6 mh/s on stock settings compared to 1.19) and Etchash speed on R9 290.

• Added new split & dual mining options. This allows more freedom or better latency and stability on ETH+ZIL dual mining as well as split mining, i.e. let some cards mine ETH while other (3 and 4G) cards mine ETC. Read instructions on usage here:

  https://github.com/Lolliedieb/lolMiner-releases/blob/master/dual_and_split_mining.md

• The archives for ZIL example files now contain examples how to bypass the ZIL pools. Also an example configuration for ETH / ETC card split is provided.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug with 4G cards crash on mining ETC when trying to falsely enter zombie-tune.

• Fixed R9 380 cards not start mining Beam

• Fixed "Address already in use" API bug in Linux (that incidentally got introduced in 1.19)

About the split mining

There are two new splitting modes. Read here for configuration:
https://github.com/Lolliedieb/lolMiner-releases/blob/master/dual_and_split_mining.md

a) For ETH+ZIL or ETC+ZIL:
Usually when mining ZIL you need to mine ETH on the same pool or you need to rely on a pool proxy forwarding mechanism implemented by the pool. The first case restricts restricts your mining to a single pool while the latter might have the disadvantage of a worse ETH mining latency or pool forwarding instabilities. lolMiner 1.20 and up allow to bypass the situation by adding a second stratum connection that will pick up your ETH (or ETC) shares and bring them directly to the pool you like, while the ZIL shares will be send during the ZIL shard epochs to the ZIL pool.

b) For mining an other algorithm with your 4G cards:
Usually miners allow using only one algorithm at a time. With lolMiner 1.20 the miner starts supporting to create two connections to your favorite pools and mine two algorithms within the same miner instance. Concretely this mode was build to mine ETCHASH on some GPUS while others stay on ETH.