Once you start a Malairte miner, you are confronted with a wall of fast-scrolling text. None of it is decorative - each line has meaning, and once you can read it you can troubleshoot ninety percent of mining issues yourself.
Hashrate
Usually shown in H/s, kH/s, MH/s, or GH/s depending on hardware. This is your raw output. Expect some fluctuation - if the number swings wildly between zero and a high value, you have a thermal or driver problem, not a mining problem.
Accepted shares
A share is a piece of work that met the pool difficulty. Accepted means the pool received it before anyone else found the same one. This is what you actually get paid for. The number should grow steadily.
Rejected shares
A small number of rejects is normal - usually it means another miner submitted the same share microseconds earlier (a stale share). If rejects are more than 1-2% of accepted, look at:
- Your network connection (a slow or unstable link increases stale shares)
- Distance to the pool (use a geographically close pool server)
- Hardware overclocks that are not actually stable
Ping or latency
How long it takes a packet to reach the pool. Under 100ms is great, under 250ms is fine, over 500ms will start to cause stales.
Temperature
Some miners show GPU temps directly. Keep GPUs under about 75 degrees Celsius and CPUs under their thermal throttle point. If you do not see temps in the miner, use Task Manager (Windows) or sensors (Linux) alongside.
Uptime
Most miners reset their stats on restart, so a low share count is not a problem if the uptime is small. Let the miner run for at least an hour before judging performance.
Common log lines and what they mean
new job from pool - normal, the pool just told you what to work on. connection lost - your network or the pool dropped out; the miner will usually reconnect. share accepted - you earned a tiny bit of MLRT.