Newbie - CudaMiner not appearing to connect

[stuza]

Hi Guys,

I'm a newbie, let's be clear... i'm fumbling my way through this!

** I KNOW this is not the BEST way to do things, far from it in fact but it's just a bit of fun and curiosity.

So, I want to mine Dash.
I downloaded Dash Wallet, sync'd and generated a new "Receiving key".
I joined Suprnova.cc, added my Dash address to this, created an account and generated a worker (and also ticked "monitor" in my efforts to debug). Let's call the worker:

-u IHidUserName.1
-p IHidPassword

I then downloaded CudaMiner (I'm a GTX1080 user) and attempted to run it with the following command line (I don't believe it has a Config file?):


cudaminer -o stratum+tcp://dash80.suprnova.cc:443 -u IHidUserName.1 -p IHidPassword

This is the OUTPUT from it:

*** CudaMiner for nVidia GPUs by Christian Buchner ***
This is version 2014-02-28 (beta)
based on pooler-cpuminer 2.3.2 (c) 2010 Jeff Garzik, 2012 pooler
Cuda additions Copyright 2013,2014 Christian Buchner
LTC donation address: LKS1WDKGED647msBQfLBHV3Ls8sveGncnm
BTC donation address: 16hJF5mceSojnTD3ZTUDqdRhDyPJzoRakM
YAC donation address: Y87sptDEcpLkLeAuex6qZioDbvy1qXZEj4
[2017-06-21 16:56:09] 1 miner threads started, using 'scrypt' algorithm.
[2017-06-21 16:56:09] Starting Stratum on stratum+tcp://dash80.suprnova.cc:443
[2017-06-21 16:56:10] GPU #0: GeForce GTX 1080 with compute capability 6.1
[2017-06-21 16:56:10] GPU #0: interactive: 1, tex-cache: 0 , single-alloc: 0
[2017-06-21 16:56:10] GPU #0: 32 hashes / 4.0 MB per warp.
[2017-06-21 16:56:10] GPU #0: Performing auto-tuning (Patience...)
[2017-06-21 16:56:10] GPU #0: maximum total warps (BxW): 1499
[2017-06-21 16:59:02] Stratum detected new block
[2017-06-21 16:59:25] GPU #0: 715148.66 hash/s with configuration T11x16
[2017-06-21 16:59:25] GPU #0: using launch configuration T11x16
[2017-06-21 16:59:25] GPU #0: GeForce GTX 1080, 432.76 khash/s
[2017-06-21 16:59:25] GPU #0: GeForce GTX 1080, 333.47 khash/s
[2017-06-21 16:59:25] GPU #0: GeForce GTX 1080, 346.58 khash/s
[2017-06-21 16:59:25] GPU #0: GeForce GTX 1080, 346.65 khash/s
[2017-06-21 16:59:25] GPU #0: GeForce GTX 1080, 336.24 khash/s
[2017-06-21 16:59:25] GPU #0: GeForce GTX 1080, 342.73 khash/s
[2017-06-21 16:59:25] GPU #0: GeForce GTX 1080, 331.65 khash/s
[2017-06-21 16:59:25] GPU #0: GeForce GTX 1080, 332.11 khash/s
[2017-06-21 16:59:25] GPU #0: GeForce GTX 1080, 338.83 khash/s
[2017-06-21 16:59:25] GPU #0: GeForce GTX 1080, 324.42 khash/s
[2017-06-21 16:59:25] accepted: 0/1 (0.00%), 324.42 khash/s (booooo)
[2017-06-21 16:59:25] GPU #0: GeForce GTX 1080, 342.64 khash/s
[2017-06-21 16:59:25] GPU #0: GeForce GTX 1080, 327.23 khash/s
[2017-06-21 16:59:25] GPU #0: GeForce GTX 1080, 319.33 khash/s
[2017-06-21 16:59:25] GPU #0: GeForce GTX 1080, 321.98 khash/s
[2017-06-21 16:59:25] GPU #0: GeForce GTX 1080, 322.97 khash/s
[2017-06-21 16:59:25] GPU #0: GeForce GTX 1080, 321.06 khash/s
[2017-06-21 16:59:25] GPU #0: GeForce GTX 1080, 311.69 khash/s
[2017-06-21 16:59:25] GPU #0: GeForce GTX 1080, 329.26 khash/s
[2017-06-21 16:59:25] accepted: 0/2 (0.00%), 329.26 khash/s (booooo)
[2017-06-21 16:59:25] accepted: 0/3 (0.00%), 329.26 khash/s (booooo)
[2017-06-21 16:59:25] accepted: 0/4 (0.00%), 329.26 khash/s (booooo)
[2017-06-21 16:59:25] accepted: 0/5 (0.00%), 329.26 khash/s (booooo)
[2017-06-21 16:59:25] accepted: 0/6 (0.00%), 329.26 khash/s (booooo)

.......

[2017-06-21 16:59:36] accepted: 0/497 (0.00%), 287.16 khash/s (booooo)
[2017-06-21 16:59:36] accepted: 0/498 (0.00%), 297.85 khash/s (booooo)
[2017-06-21 16:59:36] accepted: 0/499 (0.00%), 297.85 khash/s (booooo)
[2017-06-21 16:59:36] stratum_recv_line failed
[2017-06-21 16:59:36] GPU #0: GeForce GTX 1080, 297.85 khash/s
[2017-06-21 16:59:36] Stratum connection interrupted
[2017-06-21 16:59:36] submit_upstream_work stratum_send_line failed
[2017-06-21 16:59:36] ...retry after 15 seconds
[2017-06-21 16:59:36] GPU #0: GeForce GTX 1080, 323.40 khash/s
[2017-06-21 16:59:36] stratum_recv_line failed

SuprNova give the following Config information, not all of it means something to me so, maybe the error is because I don't understand fully?

This is a NGv2 Pool - you can use your Suprnova unified login here ! (All Suprnova Pools with this logo share the same login and worker information - no need to re-set everything !)

Suprnova's Dash Pool // Algo: X11 // LIVE !

Now also with Port 80 / 443 Mining!
You can also mine using Port 80 or 443 by pointing your miners to stratum+tcp://dash80.suprnova.cc:80 or stratum+tcp://dash80.suprnova.cc:443

and.....


Settings for Stratum (recommended):

STRATUM: stratum+tcp://dash.suprnova.cc
PORT: 9995
Username: Weblogin.Worker
Password: Worker Password

I've tried the default Stratum with port 9995, 80 and 443, all produce the same result.

I think, but could easily be wrong, that it is hashing correctly but unable to communicate back to SuprNova? Now, i'm 99.999% the user name and password are correct. Any other ideas?

Remember, this is my first attempt to it's likely to be something REALLY stupid on my part!

Thanks in advance!

 

[stuza]

Update - it seems i was using a very old version!

Updated and now I get the following:

ccminer 8.08-KlausT (64bit) for nVidia GPUs
Compiled with Visual Studio 2015 using Nvidia CUDA Toolkit 8.0

Based on pooler cpuminer 2.3.2 and the tpruvot@github fork
CUDA support by Christian Buchner, Christian H. and DJM34
Includes optimizations implemented by sp-hash, klaust, tpruvot and tsiv.

[2017-06-21 17:34:44] Starting Stratum on stratum+tcp://dash80.suprnova.cc:443
[2017-06-21 17:34:44] NVML GPU monitoring enabled.
[2017-06-21 17:34:44] 1 miner thread started, using 'bitcoin' algorithm.
[2017-06-21 17:34:44] Stratum difficulty set to 0.05
[2017-06-21 17:34:50] GPU #0: Zotac GTX 1080, 1334.78 MH/s
[2017-06-21 17:34:53] GPU #0: Zotac GTX 1080, 1335.05 MH/s
[2017-06-21 17:34:53] GPU #0: Zotac GTX 1080, 1332.76 MH/s
[2017-06-21 17:34:53] GPU #0: Zotac GTX 1080, 1332.76 MH/s
[2017-06-21 17:34:56] GPU #0: Zotac GTX 1080, 1334.66 MH/s
[2017-06-21 17:34:58] GPU #0: Zotac GTX 1080, 1334.69 MH/s
[2017-06-21 17:35:01] GPU #0: Zotac GTX 1080, 1333.71 MH/s
[2017-06-21 17:35:01] GPU #0: Zotac GTX 1080, 1331.12 MH/s
[2017-06-21 17:35:01] GPU #0: Zotac GTX 1080, 1331.12 MH/s
[2017-06-21 17:35:03] GPU #0: Zotac GTX 1080, 1331.56 MH/s
[2017-06-21 17:35:06] GPU #0: Zotac GTX 1080, 1325.27 MH/s
[2017-06-21 17:35:07] GPU #0: Zotac GTX 1080, 1332.53 MH/s
[2017-06-21 17:35:07] accepted: 0/1 (0.00%), 1332.61 MH/s booooo
[2017-06-21 17:35:07] reject reason: low difficulty share of 1.2307487062648068e-9
[2017-06-21 17:35:08] GPU #0: Zotac GTX 1080, 1331.70 MH/s
[2017-06-21 17:35:08] accepted: 0/2 (0.00%), 1332.53 MH/s booooo
[2017-06-21 17:35:08] reject reason: low difficulty share of 2.662510855212628e-10
[2017-06-21 17:35:09] GPU #0: Zotac GTX 1080, 1330.65 MH/s
[2017-06-21 17:35:09] accepted: 0/3 (0.00%), 1332.37 MH/s booooo
[2017-06-21 17:35:09] reject reason: low difficulty share of 7.584434463601033e-10
[2017-06-21 17:35:09] GPU #0: Zotac GTX 1080, 1327.97 MH/s
[2017-06-21 17:35:09] GPU #0: Zotac GTX 1080, 1327.97 MH/s
[2017-06-21 17:35:11] GPU #0: Zotac GTX 1080, 1333.35 MH/s
[2017-06-21 17:35:13] GPU #0: Zotac GTX 1080, 1329.24 MH/s
[2017-06-21 17:35:14] GPU #0: Zotac GTX 1080, 1324.35 MH/s
[2017-06-21 17:35:15] GPU #0: Zotac GTX 1080, 1311.36 MH/s
[2017-06-21 17:35:15] accepted: 0/4 (0.00%), 1330.28 MH/s booooo
[2017-06-21 17:35:15] reject reason: low difficulty share of 2.75846258629454e-10
[2017-06-21 17:35:15] GPU #0: Zotac GTX 1080, 1324.96 MH/s
[2017-06-21 17:35:15] accepted: 0/5 (0.00%), 1329.98 MH/s booooo
[2017-06-21 17:35:15] reject reason: low difficulty share of 3.0847474005869145e-10
[2017-06-21 17:35:16] GPU #0: Zotac GTX 1080, 1331.45 MH/s
[2017-06-21 17:35:17] accepted: 0/6 (0.00%), 1330.06 MH/s booooo
[2017-06-21 17:35:17] reject reason: low difficulty share of 4.0811938084222073e-10
[2017-06-21 17:35:17] GPU #0: Zotac GTX 1080, 1331.16 MH/s
[2017-06-21 17:35:17] accepted: 0/7 (0.00%), 1330.12 MH/s booooo
[2017-06-21 17:35:17] reject reason: low difficulty share of 2.363983658589706e-10
[2017-06-21 17:35:17] GPU #0: Zotac GTX 1080, 1330.58 MH/s
[2017-06-21 17:35:17] GPU #0: Zotac GTX 1080, 1330.58 MH/s
[2017-06-21 17:35:18] Stratum difficulty set to 0.3
[2017-06-21 17:35:18] dash80.suprnova.cc:443 bitcoin block 690497
[2017-06-21 17:35:18] GPU #0: Zotac GTX 1080, 1332.07 MH/s

Tried CGMiner and got a similar error message:

cgminer version 3.7.3 - Started: [2017-06-21 17:50:41] - [0 days 00:00:22]
[P]ool management [G]PU management ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
(5s):140.1K (avg):160.4Kh/s | A:0 R:21 HW:982 WU:0.0/m WUE:0.0%
ST: 2 SS: 0 NB: 2 LW: 29 GF: 0 RF: 0
Connected to dash80.suprnova.cc diff 1 with stratum as user Stuartfarr1974.1
Pool 0 Diff: 366K Started: [17:50:50] Best share: 476
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
GPU 0: | 154.9K/169.1Kh/s | R:100.0% HW:1036 WU:0.0/m T:2 I:13
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[17:50:57] Rejected 80e6274c Diff 2/0 GPU 0 (low difficulty share of 3.93
[17:50:57] Rejected 26c6eb27 Diff 7/0 GPU 0 (low difficulty share of 8.18
[17:50:58] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 1.333333
[17:50:59] Rejected 268b3a50 Diff 7/1 GPU 0 (low difficulty share of 6.70
[17:50:59] Rejected b887d64d Diff 1/1 GPU 0 (low difficulty share of 2.34
[17:51:00] Rejected b9770f2d Diff 1/1 GPU 0 (low difficulty share of 5.45
[17:51:00] Rejected 17598fdf Diff 11/1 GPU 0 (low difficulty share of 6.65
[17:51:01] Rejected 5102a6b4 Diff 3/1 GPU 0 (low difficulty share of 2.45
[17:51:01] Rejected 5bde3b00 Diff 3/1 GPU 0 (low difficulty share of 2.64
[17:51:02] Rejected 9a4c3bc5 Diff 2/1 GPU 0 (low difficulty share of 1.12
[17:51:03] Rejected 3396485e Diff 5/1 GPU 0 (low difficulty share of 5.62
[17:51:03] Rejected 468a7082 Diff 4/1 GPU 0 (low difficulty share of 1.27

 

[JeremyCT]

ccminer is what's current. It supports CUDA/OpenCL. That last screen looks like you might need to set your difficulty manually, but I've never mined Dash so I couldn't say for sure.

Honestly, unless you enjoy all the futzing, the simplest way to get started is to join a multipool like NiceHash.

 

[stuza]

ccminer is what's current. It supports CUDA/OpenCL. That last screen looks like you might need to set your difficulty manually, but I've never mined Dash so I couldn't say for sure.

Honestly, unless you enjoy all the futzing, the simplest way to get started is to join a multipool like NiceHash.

Thank you for the tip!

I found a couple of settings for the Command Line and played with them. So far my guesswork, based on your tip, has worked - thank you!:

ccminer 8.08-KlausT (64bit) for nVidia GPUs
Compiled with Visual Studio 2015 using Nvidia CUDA Toolkit 8.0

Based on pooler cpuminer 2.3.2 and the tpruvot@github fork
CUDA support by Christian Buchner, Christian H. and DJM34
Includes optimizations implemented by sp-hash, klaust, tpruvot and tsiv.

[2017-06-21 20:02:02] Starting Stratum on stratum+tcp://dash80.suprnova.cc:443
[2017-06-21 20:02:02] NVML GPU monitoring enabled.
[2017-06-21 20:02:02] 1 miner thread started, using 'x11' algorithm.
[2017-06-21 20:02:03] Stratum difficulty set to 0.05
[2017-06-21 20:02:13] dash80.suprnova.cc:443 x11 block 690555
[2017-06-21 20:02:13] GPU #0: Zotac GTX 1080, 16.35 MH/s
[2017-06-21 20:02:13] GPU #0: Zotac GTX 1080, 16.77 MH/s
[2017-06-21 20:02:13] accepted: 1/1 (100.00%), 16.56 MH/s yay!!!
[2017-06-21 20:02:39] GPU #0: Zotac GTX 1080, 16.41 MH/s
[2017-06-21 20:02:39] dash80.suprnova.cc:443 x11 block 690556
[2017-06-21 20:02:39] GPU #0: Zotac GTX 1080, 16.53 MH/s
[2017-06-21 20:02:54] GPU #0: Zotac GTX 1080, 16.42 MH/s
[2017-06-21 20:02:54] accepted: 2/2 (100.00%), 16.49 MH/s yay!!!
[2017-06-21 20:02:55] Stratum difficulty set to 0.0121951
[2017-06-21 20:03:19] GPU #0: Zotac GTX 1080, 16.36 MH/s
[2017-06-21 20:03:23] GPU #0: Zotac GTX 1080, 16.28 MH/s
[2017-06-21 20:03:24] accepted: 3/3 (100.00%), 16.44 MH/s yay!!!
[2017-06-21 20:03:26] GPU #0: Zotac GTX 1080, 16.42 MH/s
[2017-06-21 20:03:26] accepted: 4/4 (100.00%), 16.44 MH/s yay!!!
[2017-06-21 20:03:27] Stratum difficulty set to 0.00420521
[2017-06-21 20:03:27] GPU #0: Zotac GTX 1080, 16.23 MH/s
[2017-06-21 20:03:27] accepted: 5/5 (100.00%), 16.42 MH/s yay!!!
[2017-06-21 20:03:36] GPU #0: Zotac GTX 1080, 16.27 MH/s
[2017-06-21 20:03:36] accepted: 6/6 (100.00%), 16.40 MH/s yay!!!
[2017-06-21 20:03:36] GPU #0: Zotac GTX 1080, 16.25 MH/s
[2017-06-21 20:03:36] accepted: 7/7 (100.00%), 16.39 MH/s yay!!!
[2017-06-21 20:03:37] GPU #0: Zotac GTX 1080, 16.24 MH/s
[2017-06-21 20:03:38] accepted: 8/8 (100.00%), 16.38 MH/s yay!!!

The command line I played with is as follows:

ccminer -a x11 -f 0.5 -o stratum+tcp://dash80.suprnova.cc:443 -u UserID.1 -p Password


Now, in all honest i have no idea how dividing a number by 0.5 (making it less!) creates a more difficult calculation but, it seems to be working. Again, I know i'm not going to become a millionaire overnight (or ever!) using this rig but, just out of curiosity i tried feed the numbers i guessed at in to Coinwars Calculator - Dash and i guess I got something wrong as it reckoned I would be about $4million up by the end of the month! .... I don't need to worry about electricity costs but still, that's pushing it a bit!

SuprNova says i'm currently running at a hash of 6.45 MH/s with a difficulty of 3.5 - these are rapidly changing up and down though. How can i work out my return? And this really is a "interest" thing, i'm not doing it with any hopes.


Thanks!

edit: Playing with the F parameter to 0.9 and my Suprnova dashboard is now reporting Hashrate of 14.27 MH/s at 8.9 ..... I assume this is better!?