how donate works in xmrig

[Toxenskiy]

you are offline or not answering

[UnamSanctam]

What? I'm on my phone at the moment, did you write something anywhere?

[Toxenskiy]

"how donate works in xmrig"

[Toxenskiy]

apparently you do not receive a notification if I do not indicate anything in the comment of the topic

[UnamSanctam]

Yeah it seems that way. But works in what way? If it's at 5% the it will mine to the dev adress for 5 minutes every 100 minutes (mine normally for 95 minutes then mine to dev for 5 minutes) if that's what you mean.

[Toxenskiy]

judging by all tests with donate-lvl = 5 it takes 10 minutes to mine

[UnamSanctam]

Hmm I've nerver tested anything so I'm not sure. How are you measuring it?

[Toxenskiy]

process hacker

[UnamSanctam]

What are you checking in Process Hacker to check it? So that I can test that myself.

[Toxenskiy]

can you believe me

[Toxenskiy]

I even have a video. like I can't look at the process hacker for 100 minutes without stopping

[UnamSanctam]

Oh sure I believe you but I want to do some tests to see why it would do that. It should be maxed at 5 min at the moment so it shouldn't be able to go over that.

[Toxenskiy]

why do you need to conduct a test if first you should look at the source code, and I think it's not very important.

[UnamSanctam]

Yeah it's maxed at 5 in the source which is why I have to test it incase there is something wrong.

[Toxenskiy]

i would advise you to test this on the original xmrig first. for this, you can use the process monitor or other programs that allow you to monitor packages

[UnamSanctam]

Yeah I'm going to test both at the same time

[Toxenskiy]

there is some news on that suggestion

[Toxenskiy]

Well, how's your progress?

[Toxenskiy]

and again you ignored me on the question "there is some news on that suggestion"

[UnamSanctam]

Well I wasn't home at the time so I missed the message since I don't have notifications on my phone. I did test it but it seems a bit weird. If I check with wireshark then both the normal XMRig and the custom XMRig and donate-level=5 usually donates for between 4-7 minutes (only tested both 3 times) but I'm not sure why it does that since it should switch the pools instantly. Maybe there is some sort of delay with the pool or the computer but it seems I have to test it with other settings like another pool maybe.

[Toxenskiy]

with my tests, exactly 10 minutes not a second more, not a second less

[Toxenskiy]

with the original did not test

[Toxenskiy]

I think there is nothing wrong with that, if you want you can put 2-3% by default

I think you better spend your time on some cool update, they have not been there for a long time

[UnamSanctam]

Hmm, and that's with donate-level=5? The code is as follows:

 if (level >= kMinimumDonateLevel && level <= 5) {
        m_donateLevel = level;
    }

So it shouldn't be able to go over 5 even if you put it higher.

I'm planning on a new update soon with new features.

[Toxenskiy]

the last significant update was 1.5 months ago What update are you planning, if not a secret? And also I know 3 hidden miners and they also mine for 10 minutes with donate-lvl = 5 so this is how it should be

[UnamSanctam]

Well that depends on what counts as significant (all the changes and what they do are here https://github.com/UnamSanctam/SilentXMRMiner#changes) but I'm planning on adding an uninstaller for the miner that you can enable to be built in the 'Advanced Options' window. I am also planning the remote configuration on pastebin or something like it where you can enter the pool and everything there and it will load it every time it runs.

[Toxenskiy]

well, you already did it, just unofficially.

[Toxenskiy]

Hmm, and that's with donate-level=5? The code is as follows:

 if (level >= kMinimumDonateLevel && level <= 5) {
        m_donateLevel = level;
    }

So it shouldn't be able to go over 5 even if you put it higher.

I'm planning on a new update soon with new features.

and before it is not necessary to change this variable, you can change the variable in which the mining time is indicated and multiply or increase it

[UnamSanctam]

Yes of course but I believe it's still the normal one, I can't remember ever having changed it. This is the code from the DonateStrategy file and to me it looks like it calculates it correctly.

 m_donateTime(static_cast<uint64_t>(controller->config()->pools().donateLevel()) * 60 * 1000),
    m_idleTime((100 - static_cast<uint64_t>(controller->config()->pools().donateLevel())) * 60 * 1000),

[Toxenskiy]

possibly

[Toxenskiy]

Well that depends on what counts as significant (all the changes and what they do are here https://github.com/UnamSanctam/SilentXMRMiner#changes) but I'm planning on adding an uninstaller for the miner that you can enable to be built in the 'Advanced Options' window. I am also planning the remote configuration on pastebin or something like it where you can enter the pool and everything there and it will load it every time it runs.

however, I think the detections will increase in part because connecting to github or pastebin is already suspicious

[UnamSanctam]

Yes it might, that's also the reason I had to change the original dev server from donate.v2.xmrig.com to something else because the traffic to it made it really easy to detect the miner and even made it so that your IP could be blocked in places where that server is on a blocklist.

[Toxenskiy]

well, you already did it, just unofficially.

and besides, it is difficult to call it significant

[UnamSanctam]

Then what would you call significant?

[Toxenskiy]

watchdog

[UnamSanctam]

Yes but what possible new feature would you call significant? There isn't that many big features I can add without increasing detections or complexity in the builder.

[Toxenskiy]

need to think

[Toxenskiy]

the ability to update miners

[UnamSanctam]

Yes that's what I was considering adding to the remote configuration with pastebin as well (so you could add a link to the miner on another row of the text) but a test I did before made it detected as a 'Downloader' by some antiviruses so I probably have to find some method of doing it that's not detected.

[Toxenskiy]

try doing everything in memory without saving to disk

[Toxenskiy]

that is, so that the file is downloaded and launched in memory, and after starting the miner will be saved in the path specified in the build

[UnamSanctam]

Yeah but it's the actual download it detects so it detects it before the download is complete.

[Toxenskiy]

no thoughts at all.

[UnamSanctam]

Yeah, I'll try using other methods of downloading it until it stops detecting it.

[Toxenskiy]

yes, but my idea is that the miner is updated but a new version when you release it, and not make a loader

[UnamSanctam]

That only the XMRig miner gets updated and nothing else (i.e it downloads this file)? I guess I could do that but I'd have to make sure that the miner always stays backwards-compatible but that shouldn't be that difficult.

[Toxenskiy]

you understood me correctly

[Toxenskiy]

there is still one suggestion when cloning a file to a path to remove the icon

[Toxenskiy]

i just think if a person finds a file in my APPDATA with the name Services and with a game or browser icon he will find it strange

[UnamSanctam]

Yeah, only issue I'll have to think about is that the Icon is directly in the assembly so it's not as easy as it sounds but it might be possible to change the resources of the file to remove it (in a relatively easy way).