Duplicate shares when switching from c29b to ethash

[Joseba73]

This issue was monitored since a few days. When switching from cuckaroo29b to ethash mining all shares are rejected as duplicates. Then of course IP is banned. I think I didn't noticed it before because this switching is quite rare but this might be a new issue, dunno. All other monitored switching pairs work fine from weeks. The result is the same with GMiner or T-rex with ethash: duplicate shares

+----------------------------------------------------------------+ | GMiner v2.58 | +----------------------------------------------------------------+ Algorithm: Cuckaroo29b DevFee: 4% Stratum server: host: 127.0.0.1:3333 user: WALLET password: GPU~c29b Power calculator: off Color output: on Watchdog: on API: off Log to file: off Selected devices: GPU0 Intensity: 100 Temperature limits: 90/120 02:13:12 P2 State Disabled 02:13:13 Nvidia Driver: 471.68 02:13:14 GPU0 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 6GB: Selected 5GB Solver Pool (gulf.moneroocean.stream:10256) <-> miner link was established due to new miner connection 02:13:14 Connected to 127.0.0.1:3333 [127.0.0.1] 02:13:14 Authorized on Stratum Server 02:13:14 New Job: 17170242 Diff: 6 02:13:14 Started Mining on GPU0: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 6GB [0000:26:00.0] 02:13:24 New Job: 17170664 Diff: 6 02:13:30 GPU0: Share #1 accepted 58 ms

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03:06:44 Pool: 127.0.0.1:3333 Shares/Minute: 1.83 03:06:44 Uptime: 0d 00:53:30 03:06:49 GPU0: Share #99 accepted 62 ms 03:06:58 New Job: 17309372 Diff: 5 03:07:12 New Job: 17310168 Diff: 5 +---+-----+----+-----+---------+--------+------+----+------+ | ID GPU Temp Fan Speed Fidelity Shares Core Mem | +---+-----+----+-----+---------+--------+------+----+------+ | 0 2060 62 66 % 6.64 G/s 1.03 99/0 1695 8000 | +---+-----+----+-----+---------+--------+------+----+------+ 03:07:14 Pool: 127.0.0.1:3333 Shares/Minute: 1.83 03:07:14 Uptime: 0d 00:54:00 03:07:26 New Job: 17310718 Diff: 5 03:07:42 New Job: 17310961 Diff: 5 +---+-----+----+-----+---------+--------+------+----+------+ | ID GPU Temp Fan Speed Fidelity Shares Core Mem | +---+-----+----+-----+---------+--------+------+----+------+ | 0 2060 62 66 % 6.64 G/s 1.03 99/0 1695 8000 | +---+-----+----+-----+---------+--------+------+----+------+ 03:07:44 Pool: 127.0.0.1:3333 Shares/Minute: 1.82 03:07:44 Uptime: 0d 00:54:30 03:08:01 New Job: 17311633 Diff: 5 03:08:01 GPU0: Share #100 accepted 173 ms 03:08:02 New Job: 17311645 Diff: 5 03:08:03 New Job: 17311660 Diff: 5 Starting miner './nsfminer.exe -P stratum2+tcp://WALLET:[email protected]:3333 --report-hashrate --HWMON 2' to process new ethash algo !!! Miner socket error 03:08:10 miner nsfminer 1.3.14 (No stinkin' fees edition) 03:08:10 miner Copyright 2021 Jean M. Cyr, Licensed under the terms 03:08:10 miner of the GNU General Public License Version 3 03:08:10 miner https://github.com/no-fee-ethereum-mining/nsfminer 03:08:10 miner Build: windows/release/msvc 03:08:10 miner 3rd Party: MSVC 19.16.27045.0, CUDA 11.3, Boost 1.76.0 03:08:10 miner 3rd Party: OpenSSL 1.1.1j 16 Feb 2021 03:08:10 miner Running as user: 03:08:10 miner Configured pool 127.0.0.1:3333 03:08:10 miner Selected pool 127.0.0.1:3333 03:08:10 miner Stratum mode : EthereumStratum/1.0.0 (NiceHash) 03:08:10 miner Established connection to 127.0.0.1:3333 03:08:10 miner Spinning up miners... 03:08:10 cu-0 Using Pci 0000:26:00.0: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (Compute 7.5) Memory : 6.00 GB 03:08:10 miner Extranonce set to fb9d 03:08:10 miner Authorized worker WALLET 03:08:10 miner Epoch : 438 Difficulty : 986.69 Mh 03:08:10 miner Job: 4965d91a 127.0.0.1:3333 03:08:13 cu-0 Required GPU mem: Total 4.49 GB, Cache 70.75 MB, DAG 4.42 GB, Miscellaneous 56.00 B 03:08:15 miner 0:00 A0 0.00 h - cu0 0.00 59C 0% 90.96W 03:08:19 miner Job: 9238e98b 127.0.0.1:3333 03:08:20 miner 0:00 A0 0.00 h - cu0 0.00 59C 0% 90.68W 03:08:25 miner 0:00 A0 0.00 h - cu0 0.00 59C 0% 91.24W 03:08:29 miner Job: 4ea9b4e2 127.0.0.1:3333 03:08:30 cu-0 4.42 GB of DAG data generated in 16.4 seconds 03:08:30 miner 0:00 A0 12.96 Kh - cu0 12.96 58C 0% 87.80W 03:08:35 miner 0:00 A0 33.04 Mh - cu0 33.04 58C 0% 88.19W 03:08:36 miner Job: cb901958 127.0.0.1:3333 03:08:38 miner Job: d91a0e49 127.0.0.1:3333 03:08:40 miner 0:00 A0 33.09 Mh - cu0 33.09 58C 0% 87.84W 03:08:45 miner 0:00 A0 33.08 Mh - cu0 33.08 58C 0% 87.86W 03:08:50 miner 0:00 A0 33.09 Mh - cu0 33.09 57C 0% 87.61W 03:08:52 miner Epoch : 438 Difficulty : 982.55 Mh 03:08:52 miner Job: f255ed59 127.0.0.1:3333 03:08:54 miner Job: 5ed9157e 127.0.0.1:3333 03:08:55 miner 0:00 A0 33.09 Mh - cu0 33.09 57C 0% 87.70W 03:09:00 miner 0:00 A0 33.08 Mh - cu0 33.08 57C 0% 87.56W 03:09:00 miner Job: 5d6f16e1 127.0.0.1:3333 03:09:02 miner Job: 557ea9b4 127.0.0.1:3333 03:09:05 miner 0:00 A0 33.09 Mh - cu0 33.09 57C 0% 87.71W 03:09:07 miner Job: f17a913e 127.0.0.1:3333 03:09:07 miner Job: 9227221c 127.0.0.1:3333 03:09:10 miner 0:01 A0 33.07 Mh - cu0 33.07 57C 0% 87.36W 03:09:10 miner Job: 8dfa8591 127.0.0.1:3333 03:09:15 miner 0:01 A0 33.08 Mh - cu0 33.08 57C 0% 87.41W 03:09:18 cu-0 Job: 8dfa8591 Solution: 0xfb9d00000f6e683d 03:09:18 miner Solution difficulty: 2.55 Gh 03:09:18 miner Reject reason : code:-1 message:Duplicate share 03:09:18 miner **Rejected 50 ms. 127.0.0.1:3333 03:09:20 miner 0:01 A0:R1 33.08 Mh - cu0 33.08 57C 0% 87.73W 03:09:21 miner Job: c165b851 127.0.0.1:3333 03:09:23 miner Job: 942871d6 127.0.0.1:3333 03:09:25 miner 0:01 A0:R1 33.08 Mh - cu0 33.08 56C 0% 87.51W 03:09:30 miner 0:01 A0:R1 33.08 Mh - cu0 33.08 56C 0% 87.64W 03:09:35 miner 0:01 A0:R1 33.09 Mh - cu0 33.09 56C 0% 87.42W 03:09:40 miner 0:01 A0:R1 33.09 Mh - cu0 33.09 56C 0% 87.41W 03:09:45 miner 0:01 A0:R1 33.09 Mh - cu0 33.09 56C 0% 87.07W 03:09:45 miner Job: 30aa6edb 127.0.0.1:3333 03:09:50 miner 0:01 A0:R1 33.09 Mh - cu0 33.09 56C 0% 87.36W 03:09:55 miner 0:01 A0:R1 33.08 Mh - cu0 33.08 56C 0% 87.13W 03:09:59 miner Epoch : 438 Difficulty : 974.29 Mh 03:09:59 miner Job: 951b9aef 127.0.0.1:3333 03:10:00 miner 0:01 A0:R1 33.09 Mh - cu0 33.09 56C 0% 87.37W 03:10:05 miner 0:01 A0:R1 33.08 Mh - cu0 33.08 56C 0% 86.99W 03:10:10 miner 0:02 A0:R1 33.09 Mh - cu0 33.09 56C 0% 87.03W 03:10:15 miner Job: a6cae94c 127.0.0.1:3333 03:10:15 miner 0:02 A0:R1 33.09 Mh - cu0 33.09 56C 0% 87.15W 03:10:20 miner 0:02 A0:R1 33.08 Mh - cu0 33.08 56C 0% 86.91W 03:10:21 cu-0 Job: a6cae94c Solution: 0xfb9d00000cc5f31b 03:10:21 miner Solution difficulty: 1.40 Gh 03:10:21 miner Reject reason : code:-1 message:Duplicate share 03:10:21 miner **Rejected 51 ms. 127.0.0.1:3333 03:10:25 miner 0:02 A0:R2 33.09 Mh - cu0 33.09 56C 0% 87.24W 03:10:30 miner 0:02 A0:R2 33.08 Mh - cu0 33.08 56C 0% 87.14W

[Spudz76]

I have also noticed this with other combos of miner or algo. I think I've had it happen with autolykos2 on T-Rex as the rejecting algo. But the T-Rex changelog said some stuff about corrupt shares and I thought it was just that version. It happens so randomly I'm not sure if the problem is still there with v0.24.2... But it's not just when switching to ethash.

My suspicion is just something with miner init didn't work right -- shutdown of old miner to startup of new miner needs settle-delay to allow for the previous miner to fully exit? I have not seen this with a service restart in systemd with miners, it either goes some hundreds of ms slower or actually awaits all the killed pids to go away before starting again.

Definitely some sort of state/timing problem. Adding a relaunch delay in general is probably good, it really forks crazy fast when a GPU goes absent, etc.