l=[RAM in GB]

Sumoblei wrote: When using this argument is the ram in gb the total sum of the gpu's mining, or the largest gpu's ram?

The argument is there so the system knows the maximum dag size it can assign. So you should use it for your smallest GPU RAM size.

As Alynn said it is designed to tell the server what the largest DAG size it can use on a given GPU. Specifically, you can use the l= arg on each GPU miner to prevent the server from accidentally giving that GPU a coin to mine with a DAG larger than its VRAM capacity. For example, a 2GB GPU would require the argument l=2. However, I would add that it's really only worth using in Eth-LowMemory since it's the only algo that has multiple coins with different DAG sizes. Etherium effectively only works with 6GB+ cards and Eth Classic only works with 4GB+ cards because of their respective DAG sizes, so there's not much point in using the l= arg in those cases.

I'm not entirely sure what happens at that point. Every time Gminer tells me the DAG is damaged while I'm testing overclock settings, I just kill it and tweak the settings until it works. My assumption is that if the DAG breaks then any shares submitted will be invalid since the data being used to process solutions is at least partially corrupted.

bMeister1 wrote: I'm not entirely sure what happens at that point. Every time Gminer tells me the DAG is damaged while I'm testing overclock settings, I just kill it and tweak the settings until it works. My assumption is that if the DAG breaks then any shares submitted will be invalid since the data being used to process solutions is at least partially corrupted.

that happened with mine a few times and i just let it run, see if it did its own thing and it doesnt, it just continues to default to restarting in 10 seconds, the length of time before it registers the damaged DAG does flucuate though which gave me false hope , and then i just did the same as you killed it, i noticed tohugh that if i change my virtual memory paging file size for the drives from 5604 (default) to 14000 i have 16gb of ram to play with so i just threw a number in, and the damaged dag file from OC error hasnt happened since, im pulling 21.9Mh/s from a msi geforce 1650 4gb ddr5 ventus 68w at 52celcius as we speak... most people are getting 14-19.. and higher temps as well, ive also noticed that the damaged dag happens more when i try and increase the clocks just a little more each time by 5-10 that there is the slightest lag for it to register which is when the miner is suspecting the dag is damaged, but if i do 2-4 increments like 2 for clock and 4 for memory i have no issues, im scared to try and get any more out of mine cause shes offering well more then what shes bargained for ,


Total paging file size for all drives
Minimum allowed: 16mb
Recommended: 5604mb
Currently allocated:14000mb

Having trouble with Gminer and 6GB Nvidia card. Is is i=, l=, 1= or capital I=? Currently using lowercaser L = 6 and still getting out of memory errors. What am I doing wrong?

ovrcast wrote: Having trouble with Gminer and 6GB Nvidia card. Is is i=, l=, 1= or capital I=? Currently using lowercaser L = 6 and still getting out of memory errors. What am I doing wrong?

Hello. You are correct that it is lowercase L. What algorithm are you mining with your card? If you're mining Ethash, the DAG size is a little over 5 now, and the OS uses some space, so 6 G cards are starting to have issues with it now from what I've heard. At this point, with Ethash going offline at some point tomorrow probably, if this is the case, you may want to try one of our other GPU algorithms that might work better with your 6 G card.

I did l=6 but still getting the out of memory error with Gminer.

My 1060s got about 60MB left after DAG on Win10, barely fits, so a little more usage from your Operating System and you will not be able to mine with 6GB cards. But as Sarah stated, tomorrow is end of the line for Ethash, so take a look around.

@ovrcast We have KAWPOW, Etchash, Octopus, Autolykos2, equihash, equihash 144 5, Neoscrypt, lyra2rev2, and X17 if any of those look like they'd be profitable for you.