Mining Monero with xmr-stak 2.4 in a machine with NVIDIA video card under Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Here are all the steps you need to begin mining Monero crypto coin with XMR-STAK 2.4. We can use our ASUS ROG POSEIDON GTX 1080Ti Platinum Edition to mine along with our processor AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X (16 cores with 32 threads with 3.4GHz base frequency and boost to 4GHz). As you’ll see our processor has better performance with cryptonight v7 than our GPU.

STEP 1) Install all the needed software

  1. Install linux distro – Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
  2. Install NVIDIA proprietary driver
  3. Install NVIDIA CURA Toolkit
  4. Build XMR-STAK

This step is a matter of another howto, you can check all the step and detail explanations here – Install xmr-stak 2.4 in a machine with NVIDIA video card under Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Skip it if you just followed the above howto and you want to see an example of how to mine the Monero coins with XMR-STAK using CPU and GPU power.

STEP 2) First run of XMR-STAK

If you followed our howto above you should have installed XMR-STAK in “~/xmr-stak/build/bin”, so all the examples will be run from this directory.

myuser@srv:~/xmr-stak/build/bin$ ./xmr-stak 
Please enter:
- Do you want to use the HTTP interface?
Unlike the screen display, the browser interface is not affected by the GPU lag.
If you don't want to use it, please enter 0, otherwise enter port number that the miner should listen on
0
Configuration stored in file 'config.txt'
Please enter:
- Please enter the currency that you want to mine: 
        - aeon7
        - bbscoin
        - bittube
        - cryptonight
        - cryptonight_bittube2
        - cryptonight_masari
        - cryptonight_haven
        - cryptonight_heavy
        - cryptonight_lite
        - cryptonight_lite_v7
        - cryptonight_lite_v7_xor
        - cryptonight_v7
        - cryptonight_v7_stellite
        - graft
        - haven
        - intense
        - masari
        - monero7
        - ryo
        - stellite
        - turtlecoin

cryptonight_v7
- Pool address: e.g. pool.example.com:3333
pool.monero.spacepools.org:3333
- Username (wallet address or pool login):
111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
- Password (mostly empty or x):
mining@example.com
- Rig identifier for pool-side statistics (needs pool support). Can be empty:

- Does this pool port support TLS/SSL? Use no if unknown. (y/N)
N
- Do you want to use nicehash on this pool? (y/n)
n
- Do you want to use multiple pools? (y/n)
n
Pool configuration stored in file 'pools.txt'
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xmr-stak 2.4.7 c5f0505

Brought to you by fireice_uk and psychocrypt under GPLv3.
Based on CPU mining code by wolf9466 (heavily optimized by fireice_uk).
Based on NVIDIA mining code by KlausT and psychocrypt.
Based on OpenCL mining code by wolf9466.

Configurable dev donation level is set to 2.0%

You can use following keys to display reports:
'h' - hashrate
'r' - results
'c' - connection
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[2018-07-20 03:13:52] : Mining coin: cryptonight_v7
[2018-07-20 03:13:52] : NVIDIA: GPU configuration stored in file 'nvidia.txt'
[2018-07-20 03:13:52] : Starting NVIDIA GPU thread 0, no affinity.
[2018-07-20 03:13:52] : WARNING: No AMD OpenCL platform found. Possible driver issues or wrong vendor driver.
[2018-07-20 03:13:52] : WARNING: backend AMD (OpenCL) disabled.
[2018-07-20 03:13:52] : CPU configuration stored in file 'cpu.txt'
[2018-07-20 03:13:52] : Starting 1x thread, affinity: 0.
[2018-07-20 03:13:52] : hwloc: memory pinned
[2018-07-20 03:13:52] : Starting 1x thread, affinity: 1.
[2018-07-20 03:13:52] : hwloc: memory pinned
[2018-07-20 03:13:52] : Starting 1x thread, affinity: 2.
[2018-07-20 03:13:52] : hwloc: memory pinned
[2018-07-20 03:13:52] : Starting 1x thread, affinity: 3.
[2018-07-20 03:13:52] : hwloc: memory pinned
[2018-07-20 03:13:52] : Starting 1x thread, affinity: 4.
[2018-07-20 03:13:52] : hwloc: memory pinned
[2018-07-20 03:13:52] : Starting 1x thread, affinity: 5.
[2018-07-20 03:13:52] : hwloc: memory pinned
[2018-07-20 03:13:52] : Starting 1x thread, affinity: 6.
[2018-07-20 03:13:52] : hwloc: memory pinned
[2018-07-20 03:13:52] : Starting 1x thread, affinity: 7.
[2018-07-20 03:13:52] : hwloc: memory pinned
[2018-07-20 03:13:52] : Starting 1x thread, affinity: 8.
[2018-07-20 03:13:52] : hwloc: memory pinned
[2018-07-20 03:13:52] : Starting 1x thread, affinity: 9.
[2018-07-20 03:13:52] : hwloc: memory pinned
[2018-07-20 03:13:52] : Starting 1x thread, affinity: 10.
[2018-07-20 03:13:52] : hwloc: memory pinned
[2018-07-20 03:13:52] : Starting 1x thread, affinity: 11.
[2018-07-20 03:13:52] : hwloc: memory pinned
[2018-07-20 03:13:52] : Starting 1x thread, affinity: 12.
[2018-07-20 03:13:52] : hwloc: memory pinned
[2018-07-20 03:13:52] : Starting 1x thread, affinity: 13.
[2018-07-20 03:13:52] : hwloc: memory pinned
[2018-07-20 03:13:52] : Starting 1x thread, affinity: 14.
[2018-07-20 03:13:52] : hwloc: memory pinned
[2018-07-20 03:13:52] : Starting 1x thread, affinity: 15.
[2018-07-20 03:13:52] : hwloc: memory pinned
[2018-07-20 03:13:52] : Fast-connecting to pool.monero.spacepools.org:3333 pool ...
[2018-07-20 03:13:52] : Pool pool.monero.spacepools.org:3333 connected. Logging in...
[2018-07-20 03:13:53] : Difficulty changed. Now: 50000.
[2018-07-20 03:13:53] : Pool logged in.
[2018-07-20 03:14:16] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:14:23] : Difficulty changed. Now: 35000.
[2018-07-20 03:14:23] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:14:24] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:14:27] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:14:38] : Difficulty changed. Now: 45500.
[2018-07-20 03:14:38] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:14:53] : Difficulty changed. Now: 31850.
[2018-07-20 03:14:53] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:14:59] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:15:06] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:15:08] : Difficulty changed. Now: 41405.
[2018-07-20 03:15:08] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:15:18] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:15:23] : Difficulty changed. Now: 51756.
[2018-07-20 03:15:23] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:15:38] : Difficulty changed. Now: 38817.
[2018-07-20 03:15:38] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:16:08] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:16:08] : Difficulty changed. Now: 27172.
[2018-07-20 03:16:08] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:16:08] : Result accepted by the pool.
HASHRATE REPORT - CPU
| ID |    10s |    60s |    15m | ID |    10s |    60s |    15m |
|  0 |   80.3 |   80.3 |   (na) |  1 |   80.7 |   80.7 |   (na) |
|  2 |   80.7 |   80.7 |   (na) |  3 |   80.7 |   80.7 |   (na) |
|  4 |   81.2 |   81.1 |   (na) |  5 |   81.2 |   81.1 |   (na) |
|  6 |   81.2 |   81.1 |   (na) |  7 |   81.2 |   81.1 |   (na) |
|  8 |   80.8 |   81.0 |   (na) |  9 |   80.5 |   81.0 |   (na) |
| 10 |   81.0 |   81.1 |   (na) | 11 |   81.0 |   81.0 |   (na) |
| 12 |   81.2 |   81.2 |   (na) | 13 |   81.2 |   81.2 |   (na) |
| 14 |   81.1 |   81.1 |   (na) | 15 |   81.2 |   81.2 |   (na) |
Totals (CPU):  1295.2 1295.8    0.0 H/s
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HASHRATE REPORT - NVIDIA
| ID |    10s |    60s |    15m |
|  0 |   (na) |  772.2 |   (na) |
Totals (NVIDIA):     0.0  772.2    0.0 H/s
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Totals (ALL):   1295.2 2068.0    0.0 H/s
Highest:  2069.8 H/s
-----------------------------------------------------------------
[2018-07-20 03:16:15] : Result accepted by the pool.
RESULT REPORT
Difficulty       : 27172
Good results     : 8 / 8 (100.0 %)
Avg result time  : 17.6 sec
Pool-side hashes : 279449

Top 10 best results found:
|  0 |           179318 |  1 |            98494 |
|  2 |            65145 |  3 |            59550 |
|  4 |            58982 |  5 |            50332 |
|  6 |            42050 |  7 |            34703 |
|  8 |                0 |  9 |                0 |

Error details:
Yay! No errors.
[2018-07-20 03:16:23] : Difficulty changed. Now: 35324.
[2018-07-20 03:16:23] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:16:38] : Difficulty changed. Now: 24727.
[2018-07-20 03:16:38] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:16:42] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:16:49] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:16:53] : Difficulty changed. Now: 32145.
[2018-07-20 03:16:53] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:16:55] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:17:08] : Difficulty changed. Now: 41789.
[2018-07-20 03:17:08] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:17:23] : Difficulty changed. Now: 29252.
[2018-07-20 03:17:23] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:17:47] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:17:53] : Difficulty changed. Now: 20476.
[2018-07-20 03:17:53] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:17:54] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:18:00] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:18:08] : Difficulty changed. Now: 26619.
[2018-07-20 03:18:08] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:18:15] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:18:21] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:18:23] : Difficulty changed. Now: 34605.
[2018-07-20 03:18:23] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:18:30] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:18:30] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:18:36] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:18:38] : Difficulty changed. Now: 44987.
[2018-07-20 03:18:38] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:18:53] : Difficulty changed. Now: 39694.
[2018-07-20 03:18:53] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:18:55] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:18:56] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:19:08] : Difficulty changed. Now: 51602.
[2018-07-20 03:19:08] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:19:23] : Difficulty changed. Now: 36121.
[2018-07-20 03:19:23] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:19:28] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:19:37] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:20:01] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:20:08] : Difficulty changed. Now: 28517.
[2018-07-20 03:20:08] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:20:08] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:20:23] : Difficulty changed. Now: 19962.
[2018-07-20 03:20:23] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:20:23] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:20:30] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:20:31] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:20:38] : Difficulty changed. Now: 25951.
[2018-07-20 03:20:38] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:20:45] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:21:08] : Difficulty changed. Now: 21041.
[2018-07-20 03:21:08] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:21:18] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:21:23] : Difficulty changed. Now: 27353.
[2018-07-20 03:21:23] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:21:26] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:21:32] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:21:35] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:21:38] : Difficulty changed. Now: 35559.
[2018-07-20 03:21:38] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:21:53] : Difficulty changed. Now: 29633.
[2018-07-20 03:21:53] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:21:55] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:22:08] : Difficulty changed. Now: 38523.
[2018-07-20 03:22:08] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:22:23] : Difficulty changed. Now: 26966.
[2018-07-20 03:22:23] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:22:28] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:22:38] : Difficulty changed. Now: 35056.
[2018-07-20 03:22:38] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:22:49] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:22:52] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:22:53] : Difficulty changed. Now: 43820.
[2018-07-20 03:22:53] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:23:00] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:23:08] : Difficulty changed. Now: 56966.
[2018-07-20 03:23:08] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:23:13] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:23:23] : Difficulty changed. Now: 65730.
[2018-07-20 03:23:23] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:23:23] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:23:30] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:23:38] : Difficulty changed. Now: 85449.
[2018-07-20 03:23:38] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:23:53] : Difficulty changed. Now: 59814.
[2018-07-20 03:23:53] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:24:07] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:24:35] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:24:38] : Difficulty changed. Now: 41870.
[2018-07-20 03:24:38] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:25:08] : Difficulty changed. Now: 29309.
[2018-07-20 03:25:08] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:25:38] : Difficulty changed. Now: 20516.
[2018-07-20 03:25:38] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:25:49] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:25:53] : Difficulty changed. Now: 26671.
[2018-07-20 03:25:53] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:26:08] : Difficulty changed. Now: 21056.
[2018-07-20 03:26:08] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:26:15] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:26:22] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:26:23] : Difficulty changed. Now: 27373.
[2018-07-20 03:26:23] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:26:52] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:26:53] : Difficulty changed. Now: 19161.
[2018-07-20 03:26:53] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:26:56] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:27:08] : Difficulty changed. Now: 24909.
[2018-07-20 03:27:08] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:27:19] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:27:23] : Difficulty changed. Now: 17436.
[2018-07-20 03:27:23] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:27:26] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:27:36] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:27:38] : Difficulty changed. Now: 22667.
[2018-07-20 03:27:38] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:27:43] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:27:43] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:27:49] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:27:53] : Difficulty changed. Now: 29467.
[2018-07-20 03:27:53] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:27:57] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:28:00] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:28:03] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:28:08] : Difficulty changed. Now: 38307.
[2018-07-20 03:28:08] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:28:23] : Difficulty changed. Now: 28730.
[2018-07-20 03:28:23] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:28:30] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:28:30] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:28:35] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:28:37] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:28:37] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:28:38] : Difficulty changed. Now: 37349.
[2018-07-20 03:28:38] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:29:07] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:29:08] : Difficulty changed. Now: 26144.
[2018-07-20 03:29:08] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:29:36] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:29:38] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:29:38] : Difficulty changed. Now: 18301.
[2018-07-20 03:29:38] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:29:41] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:29:45] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:29:50] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:29:53] : Difficulty changed. Now: 23791.
[2018-07-20 03:29:53] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:29:58] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:29:58] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:30:08] : Difficulty changed. Now: 30928.
[2018-07-20 03:30:08] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:30:12] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:30:13] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:30:23] : Difficulty changed. Now: 40206.
[2018-07-20 03:30:23] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:30:24] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:30:38] : Difficulty changed. Now: 52268.
[2018-07-20 03:30:38] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:30:53] : Difficulty changed. Now: 36588.
[2018-07-20 03:30:53] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:31:23] : Difficulty changed. Now: 25612.
[2018-07-20 03:31:23] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:31:53] : Difficulty changed. Now: 17928.
[2018-07-20 03:31:53] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:31:53] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:32:08] : Difficulty changed. Now: 23306.
[2018-07-20 03:32:08] : New block detected.
[2018-07-20 03:32:14] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:32:20] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:32:53] : Difficulty changed. Now: 17480.
[2018-07-20 03:32:53] : New block detected.
RESULT REPORT
Difficulty       : 17480
Good results     : 71 / 71 (100.0 %)
Avg result time  : 16.2 sec
Pool-side hashes : 2085841

Top 10 best results found:
|  0 |          4672722 |  1 |           993908 |
|  2 |           991887 |  3 |           271993 |
|  4 |           210975 |  5 |           208951 |
|  6 |           207738 |  7 |           179318 |
|  8 |           144045 |  9 |           118699 |

Error details:
Yay! No errors.
HASHRATE REPORT - CPU
| ID |    10s |    60s |    15m | ID |    10s |    60s |    15m |
|  0 |   80.3 |   80.3 |   80.3 |  1 |   80.7 |   80.7 |   80.7 |
|  2 |   80.7 |   80.7 |   80.7 |  3 |   80.7 |   80.7 |   80.7 |
|  4 |   81.2 |   81.2 |   81.2 |  5 |   81.2 |   81.2 |   81.2 |
|  6 |   81.2 |   81.2 |   81.1 |  7 |   81.2 |   81.2 |   81.2 |
|  8 |   80.7 |   81.1 |   81.0 |  9 |   80.9 |   81.1 |   81.1 |
| 10 |   80.9 |   81.0 |   81.0 | 11 |   80.9 |   81.1 |   81.1 |
| 12 |   81.0 |   81.1 |   81.1 | 13 |   81.1 |   81.1 |   81.2 |
| 14 |   81.1 |   81.1 |   81.1 | 15 |   81.1 |   81.1 |   81.2 |
Totals (CPU):  1295.1 1296.0 1295.9 H/s
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HASHRATE REPORT - NVIDIA
| ID |    10s |    60s |    15m |
|  0 |   (na) |  771.7 |  771.5 |
Totals (NVIDIA):     0.0  771.7  771.5 H/s
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Totals (ALL):   1295.1 2067.7 2067.4 H/s
Highest:  2069.9 H/s
-----------------------------------------------------------------
[2018-07-20 03:33:07] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 03:33:09] : Result accepted by the pool.

You could use monero7 or cryptonight_v7to mine Monero. The pool we use is under “Pool address:” – pool.monero.spacepools.org:3333 You cannot mine crypto without to be part of a pool of other mining “people”, because the difficulty is too big for solo mining! So choose your mining pool carefully – by the “Total Pool Fee”, which for the Spacepools is 0.1% and the stability of the pool.
The username is your MONERO wallet address (we changed our to invalid 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111, DO NOT USE THIS ADDRESS) – check this to see how you can generate monero wallet address – Generate a new Monero address (wallet). The password in most cases is your email address, with which you could change some account information in the pool web page.

It is good to see

Result accepted by the pool.

it means your discovered a hash and you are going to be awarded by the pool for your mining share! As many as “accepted results” as good as for you!

As you can see our ASUS ROG POSEIDON GTX 1080Ti Platinum Edition without any overclocking has 771.5 H/s of Cryptonight v7 algorithm!
Our AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X (16 cores with 32 threads with 3.4GHz base frequency and boost to 4GHz) without any overclocking has 1295.1 of Cryptonight v7 algorithm! The performance of the CPU is almost double the performance of the GPU.
Our motherboard is ASUS ROG ZENITH EXTREME with 4x8Gbytes (G.Skill Trident Z RGB DIMM Kit 32GB F4-3200C14Q-32GTZR) of RAM running in fourth channel mode.

There are three control keys to display additional information of your XMR-STAK. Press one of the key during the program execution. In the above first run we used “h” and “r”.

'h' - hashrate
'r' - results
'c' - connection

And here is the stat after 5 hours:

[2018-07-20 08:42:32] : Result accepted by the pool.
RESULT REPORT
Difficulty       : 27881
Good results     : 1266 / 1266 (100.0 %)
Avg result time  : 15.6 sec
Pool-side hashes : 41195382

Top 10 best results found:
|  0 |         86854459 |  1 |         47586423 |
|  2 |         35768342 |  3 |         25208619 |
|  4 |          8208523 |  5 |          7828657 |
|  6 |          6669723 |  7 |          6490827 |
|  8 |          6448233 |  9 |          5964065 |

Error details:
Yay! No errors.
HASHRATE REPORT - CPU
| ID |    10s |    60s |    15m | ID |    10s |    60s |    15m |
|  0 |   80.3 |   80.3 |   80.3 |  1 |   80.8 |   80.8 |   80.8 |
|  2 |   80.8 |   80.8 |   80.8 |  3 |   80.8 |   80.8 |   80.8 |
|  4 |   81.2 |   81.1 |   81.1 |  5 |   81.2 |   81.1 |   81.1 |
|  6 |   81.2 |   81.1 |   81.1 |  7 |   81.2 |   81.1 |   81.1 |
|  8 |   81.0 |   80.9 |   81.0 |  9 |   81.0 |   81.0 |   81.0 |
| 10 |   81.0 |   81.0 |   80.9 | 11 |   80.5 |   80.8 |   81.0 |
| 12 |   81.2 |   81.1 |   81.1 | 13 |   81.2 |   81.2 |   81.2 |
| 14 |   81.2 |   81.2 |   81.1 | 15 |   81.2 |   81.2 |   81.1 |
Totals (CPU):  1295.7 1295.5 1295.7 H/s
-----------------------------------------------------------------
HASHRATE REPORT - NVIDIA
| ID |    10s |    60s |    15m |
|  0 |  773.0 |  769.9 |  771.6 |
Totals (NVIDIA):   773.0  769.9  771.6 H/s
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Totals (ALL):   2068.8 2065.4 2067.3 H/s
Highest:  2069.9 H/s
-----------------------------------------------------------------
[2018-07-20 08:42:42] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-20 08:42:43] : Difficulty changed. Now: 36245.
[2018-07-20 08:42:43] : New block detected.

Here we use https://dwarfpool.com/ and after 14 hours of mining:

[2018-07-21 02:21:05] : New block detected.
[2018-07-21 02:21:24] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-21 02:21:31] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-21 02:21:55] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-21 02:22:09] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-21 02:22:32] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-21 02:23:03] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-21 02:23:05] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-21 02:23:19] : Result accepted by the pool.
HASHRATE REPORT - CPU
| ID |    10s |    60s |    15m | ID |    10s |    60s |    15m |
|  0 |   80.3 |   80.3 |   80.3 |  1 |   80.8 |   80.8 |   80.8 |
|  2 |   80.8 |   80.8 |   80.8 |  3 |   80.8 |   80.8 |   80.8 |
|  4 |   81.2 |   81.1 |   81.2 |  5 |   81.2 |   81.1 |   81.2 |
|  6 |   81.2 |   81.1 |   81.1 |  7 |   81.2 |   81.1 |   81.2 |
|  8 |   81.0 |   80.9 |   81.0 |  9 |   81.0 |   81.0 |   81.0 |
| 10 |   81.0 |   81.0 |   81.0 | 11 |   81.0 |   80.8 |   81.0 |
| 12 |   81.1 |   81.2 |   81.2 | 13 |   81.1 |   81.2 |   81.2 |
| 14 |   81.1 |   81.1 |   81.1 | 15 |   81.0 |   81.2 |   81.2 |
Totals (CPU):  1295.8 1295.5 1295.8 H/s
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HASHRATE REPORT - NVIDIA
| ID |    10s |    60s |    15m |
|  0 |   (na) |  769.5 |  771.1 |
Totals (NVIDIA):     0.0  769.5  771.1 H/s
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Totals (ALL):   1295.8 2065.0 2066.9 H/s
Highest:  2069.8 H/s
-----------------------------------------------------------------
RESULT REPORT
Difficulty       : 50000
Good results     : 2592 / 2595 (99.9 %)
Avg result time  : 23.1 sec
Pool-side hashes : 3300000

Top 10 best results found:
|  0 |       1257001197 |  1 |         62229932 |
|  2 |         58697077 |  3 |         13938510 |
|  4 |         13393176 |  5 |         12264166 |
|  6 |         10357917 |  7 |          8800621 |
|  8 |          8669175 |  9 |          8547001 |

Error details:
| Count | Error text                       | Last seen           |
|     3 | [NETWORK ERROR]                  | 2018-07-20 19:26:18 |
[2018-07-21 02:45:48] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-21 02:45:50] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-21 02:46:11] : New block detected.
[2018-07-21 02:46:13] : New block detected.
[2018-07-21 02:46:44] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-21 02:46:53] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-21 02:47:21] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-21 02:47:33] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-21 02:47:48] : Result accepted by the pool.
RESULT REPORT
Difficulty       : 50000
Good results     : 2657 / 2660 (99.9 %)
Avg result time  : 20.8 sec
Pool-side hashes : 1000000

Top 10 best results found:
|  0 |       1257001197 |  1 |         62229932 |
|  2 |         58697077 |  3 |         13938510 |
|  4 |         13393176 |  5 |         12264166 |
|  6 |         10357917 |  7 |          8800621 |
|  8 |          8669175 |  9 |          8547001 |

Error details:
| Count | Error text                       | Last seen           |
|     3 | [NETWORK ERROR]                  | 2018-07-20 19:26:18 |
HASHRATE REPORT - CPU
| ID |    10s |    60s |    15m | ID |    10s |    60s |    15m |
|  0 |   80.2 |   80.3 |   77.5 |  1 |   80.7 |   80.7 |   77.9 |
|  2 |   80.7 |   80.7 |   77.9 |  3 |   80.7 |   80.7 |   77.9 |
|  4 |   81.1 |   81.1 |   78.3 |  5 |   81.1 |   81.1 |   78.3 |
|  6 |   81.1 |   81.1 |   78.3 |  7 |   81.1 |   81.1 |   78.3 |
|  8 |   81.1 |   81.0 |   78.2 |  9 |   81.1 |   81.1 |   78.2 |
| 10 |   81.1 |   81.0 |   78.2 | 11 |   81.1 |   81.1 |   78.2 |
| 12 |   81.0 |   81.1 |   78.3 | 13 |   81.1 |   81.1 |   78.3 |
| 14 |   81.0 |   81.1 |   78.3 | 15 |   81.1 |   81.1 |   78.3 |
Totals (CPU):  1295.2 1295.5 1250.7 H/s
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HASHRATE REPORT - NVIDIA
| ID |    10s |    60s |    15m |
|  0 |   (na) |  770.5 |  745.5 |
Totals (NVIDIA):     0.0  770.5  745.5 H/s
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Totals (ALL):   1295.2 2066.0 1996.1 H/s
Highest:  2069.8 H/s
-----------------------------------------------------------------
[2018-07-21 02:48:40] : New block detected.

The difficult is constant 50000 and you see we have multiple results, so we can try to higher it with another port (check for this the configuration page of the pool – https://dwarfpool.com/xmr/). The stats is “Earning in last 24 hours: 0.00753535 XMR”, “Current balance: 0.00732356 XMR” and ” Unconfirmed: 0.00078419 XMR” (in most cases all of it will be confirmed successfully), so the total monero we mined is “0.00810775 XMR” for these 14 hours with our machine and the estimate for the next 24 hours is “0.01440000 XMR” (for the current price you’ll earn 1.832300 USD for 24hours with this machine).

Here is the https://dwarfpool.com/xmr/ with almost 24 hours with difficult 100 000:

[2018-07-22 02:04:35] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-22 02:04:37] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-22 02:04:44] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-22 02:05:29] : Result accepted by the pool.
[2018-07-22 02:05:29] : Result accepted by the pool.
RESULT REPORT
Difficulty       : 100001
Good results     : 1691 / 1693 (99.9 %)
Avg result time  : 35.2 sec
Pool-side hashes : 4800048

Top 10 best results found:
|  0 |         50511124 |  1 |         32008411 |
|  2 |         27907718 |  3 |         27563158 |
|  4 |         20638537 |  5 |         19189255 |
|  6 |         18843649 |  7 |         15123109 |
|  8 |         12496904 |  9 |         12222295 |

Error details:
| Count | Error text                       | Last seen           |
|     1 | Low difficulty share             | 2018-07-21 15:11:03 |
|     1 | [NETWORK ERROR]                  | 2018-07-21 17:22:50 |
HASHRATE REPORT - CPU
| ID |    10s |    60s |    15m | ID |    10s |    60s |    15m |
|  0 |   80.3 |   80.3 |   80.3 |  1 |   80.7 |   80.7 |   80.7 |
|  2 |   80.7 |   80.7 |   80.7 |  3 |   80.7 |   80.7 |   80.7 |
|  4 |   81.1 |   81.2 |   81.1 |  5 |   81.1 |   81.2 |   81.1 |
|  6 |   80.8 |   81.1 |   81.1 |  7 |   81.1 |   81.2 |   81.1 |
|  8 |   80.9 |   81.0 |   81.0 |  9 |   81.0 |   81.0 |   81.0 |
| 10 |   81.0 |   81.1 |   81.1 | 11 |   81.0 |   81.1 |   81.1 |
| 12 |   81.0 |   81.1 |   81.1 | 13 |   81.0 |   81.1 |   81.1 |
| 14 |   80.9 |   81.1 |   81.1 | 15 |   81.0 |   81.1 |   81.1 |
Totals (CPU):  1294.5 1295.8 1295.6 H/s
-----------------------------------------------------------------
HASHRATE REPORT - NVIDIA
| ID |    10s |    60s |    15m |
|  0 |  771.4 |  770.7 |  771.0 |
Totals (NVIDIA):   771.4  770.7  771.0 H/s
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Totals (ALL):   2065.9 2066.5 2066.7 H/s
Highest:  2069.7 H/s
-----------------------------------------------------------------
[2018-07-22 02:06:15] : New block detected.

Current balance: 0.01082526 XMR, Unconfirmed: 0.00242919 XMR, the total is: 0.01325445 XMR, Earning in last 24 hours: 0.00603805 XMR. Next 24h earning with this speed: 0.01850000 XMR (with the current price of Monero 2.455200 USD) very approximated avg_24h_diff = 54061666755.14

Here is the nvidia-smi output

myuser@srv:~/xmr-stak/build/bin$ nvidia-smi 
Fri Jul 20 03:38:52 2018       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 396.24.10              Driver Version: 396.24.10                 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  GeForce GTX 108...  Off  | 00000000:0A:00.0  On |                  N/A |
| 46%   64C    P2   143W / 275W |  10711MiB / 11173MiB |    100%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                               
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                       GPU Memory |
|  GPU       PID   Type   Process name                             Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|    0      2119      G   /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg                            59MiB |
|    0      2170      G   /usr/bin/gnome-shell                          70MiB |
|    0     20146      C   ./xmr-stak                                 10577MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

The GPU is using 143W and here is the used GPU RAM 10711MiB out of 11173MiB by xmr-stak.
All CPU cores are running at 3680.374 Mhz. The uptime is

myuser@srv:~/xmr-stak/build/bin$ uptime
 03:48:37 up 18:28,  3 users,  load average: 16.04, 16.05, 14.39

After the first run there will be created 4 files in your current directory of the xmr-stak binary:

myuser@srv:~/xmr-stak/build/bin$ ls -altr
total 35824
drwxrwxr-x 4 myuser myuser     4096 Jul 19 16:05 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 myuser myuser    75182 Jul 19 16:05 libxmr-stak-c.a
-rw-rw-r-- 1 myuser myuser  1614230 Jul 19 16:05 libxmr-stak-backend.a
-rwxrwxr-x 1 myuser myuser  1075784 Jul 19 16:06 xmr-stak
-rwxrwxr-x 1 myuser myuser  1307456 Jul 19 16:06 libxmrstak_opencl_backend.so
-rwxrwxr-x 1 myuser myuser 32570440 Jul 19 16:13 libxmrstak_cuda_backend.so
-rw-rw-r-- 1 myuser myuser     7228 Jul 20 03:10 config.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 myuser myuser     2087 Jul 20 03:13 pools.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 myuser myuser     2032 Jul 20 03:13 nvidia.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 myuser myuser     2963 Jul 20 03:13 cpu.txt
drwxrwxr-x 2 myuser myuser     4096 Jul 20 03:13 .
myuser@srv:~/xmr-stak/build/bin$

The configuration files are

  • config.txt – the general config
  • pools.txt – configuration for what coin your are mining and which pool you are using. You can tune the rig naming and additional pools.
  • nvidia.txt – configuration for GPU miner part – GPU threads, blocks and affine_to_cpu. Definitely check this out.
  • cpu.txt – configuration for the cpu miner part – Thread configuration for each thread – a line for each core. CPU affinity, power mode and more.

These files are generated on the first run with default values and then you could quit the xmr-stak and edit the files with text editor.

* Options of the XMR-STAK program

As you can see all the algo you can use with this program – new and classic (the old) criptonight coins to mine like Monero, Electroneum, IntenseCoin and many more!

myuser@srv:~/xmr-stak/build/bin$ ./xmr-stak --help
Usage: xmr-stak [OPTION]...
 
  -h, --help                 show this help
  -v, --version              show version number
  -V, --version-long         show long version number
  -c, --config FILE          common miner configuration file
  -C, --poolconf FILE        pool configuration file
  --benchmark BLOCKVERSION   ONLY do a benchmark and exit
  --benchwait WAIT_SEC             ... benchmark wait time
  --benchwork WORK_SEC             ... benchmark work time
  --noCPU                    disable the CPU miner backend
  --cpu FILE                 CPU backend miner config file
  --noAMD                    disable the AMD miner backend
  --noAMDCache               disable the AMD(OpenCL) cache for precompiled binaries
  --openCLVendor VENDOR      use OpenCL driver of VENDOR and devices [AMD,NVIDIA]
                             default: AMD
  --amd FILE                 AMD backend miner config file
  --noNVIDIA                 disable the NVIDIA miner backend
  --nvidia FILE              NVIDIA backend miner config file
  -i --httpd HTTP_PORT       HTTP interface port
 
The following options can be used for automatic start without a guided config,
If config exists then this pool will be top priority.
  -o, --url URL              pool url and port, e.g. pool.usxmrpool.com:3333
  -O, --tls-url URL          TLS pool url and port, e.g. pool.usxmrpool.com:10443
  -u, --user USERNAME        pool user name or wallet address
  -r, --rigid RIGID          rig identifier for pool-side statistics (needs pool support)
  -p, --pass PASSWD          pool password, in the most cases x or empty ""
  --use-nicehash             the pool should run in nicehash mode
  --currency NAME            currency to mine

Supported coin options: 
        - aeon7
        - bbscoin
        - bittube
        - cryptonight
        - cryptonight_bittube2
        - cryptonight_masari
        - cryptonight_haven
        - cryptonight_heavy
        - cryptonight_lite
        - cryptonight_lite_v7
        - cryptonight_lite_v7_xor
        - cryptonight_v7
        - cryptonight_v7_stellite
        - graft
        - haven
        - intense
        - masari
        - monero7
        - ryo
        - stellite
        - turtlecoin

Version: xmr-stak 2.4.7 c5f0505
Brought to by fireice_uk and psychocrypt under GPLv3.

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