Title: **1 Free LTC offered for the solution to this problem - Bounty! Post by: btc_shell on December 07, 2013, 01:59:20 PM Ok,
so I've posted this problem earlier and was ignored. It seems either no one knows the answer or no one has ever tried it! (hard to believe) here it is... for 1 LTC I am running pooler-cpuminer-2.3.2-win64 via stratum proxy on a cloud server- WinServer 2008 R2 x64. The server has 8 Opteron processors with 4 cores each. 32 vcores (think). but..... wait for it- d-d-d-d-uhhh...(drum roll) I'm only getting 4 Threads! @ 5.5khs/sec each!!! A total of 25khs.... why on Earth doesn't it see the other 7 processors? Shouldn't I be getting 8x that amount at nearly 200 khs total?? Help me solve this pesky problem please and win a Litecoin..., as there is no information on the boards about it and no one seems to know! It's as if nobody has mined on a server before.. .sheesh- 1 Free LTC for the solution. Preferably Windows based, but if linux is easy enough.. ;) thanks! Title: Re: **1 Free LTC offered for the solution to this problem - Bounty! Post by: TBCM on December 07, 2013, 02:11:28 PM Run it with "--threads 32".
Title: Re: **1 Free LTC offered for the solution to this problem - Bounty! Post by: Jude Austin on December 07, 2013, 02:13:52 PM Title: Re: **1 Free LTC offered for the solution to this problem - Bounty! Post by: btc_shell on December 07, 2013, 02:22:29 PM Run it with "--threads 32". thanks, but I thought of that/tried it. Here's what happens- it seems to still only see the one processor as the hash rate drops to around 1/8th of what it was ... -only .77khs/sec that makes it seem as though it's just splitting 4 cores from 1 processor into 32 now, my hash total still being 25khs give or take :/ -any ideas why? Title: Re: **1 Free LTC offered for the solution to this problem - Bounty! Post by: Jude Austin on December 07, 2013, 02:23:39 PM Run it with "--threads 32". thanks, but I thought of that/tried it. Here's what happens- it seems to still only see the one processor as the hash rate drops to around 1/8th of what it was ... -only .77khs/sec that makes it seem as though it's just splitting 4 cores from 1 processor into 32 now, my hash total still being 25khs give or take :/ -any ideas why? Do this: cat /proc/cpuinfo Then paste it here. Nevermind, Windblows. What does it show in Task Man? Even better: WMIC CPU Get NumberOfCores,NumberOfLogicalProcessors /Format:List run this in CMD. Title: Re: **1 Free LTC offered for the solution to this problem - Bounty! Post by: btc_shell on December 07, 2013, 02:34:29 PM thanks yes, ok- it gets weirder-
opening up taskmgr it does show 100% cpu usage, 99% going to minerd. -great, but the khs are still in the range of .65-.75, and the total adding up to around 21khs, making it even slower. It really is only seeing the one processor it seems. When I go into device manager, I can confirm I have 8 Opteron processors (this is a cloud server, Terramark) with 4 cores each! This is Terremark's biggest instance- Do I have to "enable" my processors in Windows somehow? seriously... Title: Re: **1 Free LTC offered for the solution to this problem - Bounty! Post by: Jude Austin on December 07, 2013, 02:36:17 PM thanks yes, ok- it gets weirder- opening up taskmgr it does show 100% cpu usage, 99% going to minerd. -great, but the khs are still in the range of .65-.75, and the total adding up to around 21khs, making it even slower. It really is only seeing the one processor it seems. When I go into device manager, I can confirm I have 8 Opteron processors (this is a cloud server, Terramark) with 4 cores each! This is Terremark's biggest instance- Do I have to "enable" my processors in Windows somehow? seriously... Can you paste what that command output? Title: Re: **1 Free LTC offered for the solution to this problem - Bounty! Post by: btc_shell on December 07, 2013, 02:38:44 PM yes, just did it-
NumberOfCores=1 NumberOfLogicalProcessors=1 NumberOfCores=1 NumberOfLogicalProcessors=1 NumberOfCores=1 NumberOfLogicalProcessors=1 NumberOfCores=1 NumberOfLogicalProcessors=1 - obviously only sees 1 processor - argh. Device Manager again checked and shows 8 individual AMD Opteron Quad-core processors. Title: Re: **1 Free LTC offered for the solution to this problem - Bounty! Post by: Jude Austin on December 07, 2013, 02:42:23 PM yes, just did it- NumberOfCores=1 NumberOfLogicalProcessors=1 NumberOfCores=1 NumberOfLogicalProcessors=1 NumberOfCores=1 NumberOfLogicalProcessors=1 NumberOfCores=1 NumberOfLogicalProcessors=1 - obviously only sees 1 processor - argh. Device Manager again checked and shows 8 individual AMD Opteron Quad-core processors. Why on Earth would you buy a server from a cell phone company? lol I am thinking it has something to do with Windows. Can you re-image the server and put Ubuntu or Debian? Title: Re: **1 Free LTC offered for the solution to this problem - Bounty! Post by: Jude Austin on December 07, 2013, 02:45:03 PM I think they just sold ya.
The whole server itself might have 8 Opterons but you are only allowed 4 Vcores. This is pretty common in cloud setup, if you got all 8 of them you would be on a dedicated server. But since you are on a cloud this is all shared. Title: Re: **1 Free LTC offered for the solution to this problem - Bounty! Post by: imafish2002 on December 07, 2013, 02:46:06 PM I think they just sold ya. The whole server itself might have 8 Opterons but you are only allowed 4 Vcores. This is pretty common in cloud setup, if you got all 8 of them you would be on a dedicated server. But since you are on a cloud this is all shared. winner winner chicken dinner. This was about to be my guess :P Title: Re: **1 Free LTC offered for the solution to this problem - Bounty! Post by: btc_shell on December 07, 2013, 02:50:52 PM I think they just sold ya. The whole server itself might have 8 Opterons but you are only allowed 4 Vcores. This is pretty common in cloud setup, if you got all 8 of them you would be on a dedicated server. But since you are on a cloud this is all shared. that's what it seems like though doesn't it! I was thinking the same thing, but since on Verizon's site they are advertising it etc... wouldn't they actually give the product they advert? I thought anything else would constitute false advertising etc.. I'm actually paying for those 8 processors, why not use a 1 processor instance then! that's insane if that's the case. yeah.. I hear you about the telco cloud. I have free credit on a company account- thought I would try it while our servers are idle. ;) I did set up an Ubuntu instance with the same specs but not being linux knowledgable I'd no idea where to start from scratch. maybe a tutortial step by step .. been looking for one to easy-install.... Title: Re: **1 Free LTC offered for the solution to this problem - Bounty! Post by: TBCM on December 07, 2013, 03:51:15 PM I did set up an Ubuntu instance with the same specs but not being linux knowledgable I'd no idea where to start from scratch. maybe a tutortial step by step .. been looking for one to easy-install.... I don't know what coin you are trying to mine so this is to get a pooler-cpuminer version with scrypt, sha256 and quark mining hashing capability. Get an image with Ubuntu, open a terminal and enter these commands: sudo apt-get install build-essential libcurl4-openssl-dev wget http://stonefoz.myfastmail.com/cpuminer-quark2.zip apt-get install unzip unzip cpuminer-quark2.zip cd cpuminer-quark2 ./configure CFLAGS="-msse4 -O3" make ./minerd -a ("quark"/"sha256"/"scrypt") -t (numberofthreads - eg "8") -o (miningpoolURL):(portnumber) --userpass=poolworker:password (For example: ./minerd -a scrypt -t 8 -o stratum+tcp://mine.pool-x.eu:9000 --userpass=LTCworker.1:x) That should work. Edit: this is for Ubuntu. I don't know about other distros. Title: Re: **1 Free LTC offered for the solution to this problem - Bounty! Post by: btc_shell on December 07, 2013, 03:54:45 PM I did set up an Ubuntu instance with the same specs but not being linux knowledgable I'd no idea where to start from scratch. maybe a tutortial step by step .. been looking for one to easy-install.... I don't know what coin you are trying to mine so this is to get a pooler-cpuminer version with scrypt, sha256 and quark mining hashing capability. Get an image with Ubuntu, open a terminal and enter these commands: sudo apt-get install build-essential libcurl4-openssl-dev wget http://stonefoz.myfastmail.com/cpuminer-quark2.zip apt-get install unzip unzip cpuminer-quark2.zip cd cpuminer-quark2 ./configure CFLAGS="-msse4 -O3" make ./minerd -a ("quark"/"sha256"/"scrypt") -t (numberofthreads - eg "8") -o (miningpoolURL):(portnumber) --userpass=poolworker:password (For example: ./minerd -a scrypt -t 8 -o stratum+tcp://mine.pool-x.eu:9000 --userpass=LTCworker.1:x) That should work. Edit: this is for Ubuntu. I don't know about other distros. thank you, I will try that and report back |