Stuff has settled down in regards to XPM  Difficulty has dropped throughout today. Within a week we might peek back under 9.0 diff. That would be interesting. I added some more servers today at my place and I'm getting a few thousand more PPS. Bring it on I say! I just went the lazy route. Spent ~48 hours running parameter benchmarks and found some hearty improvements to my average 5-chain/hr. Its going pretty well though. Mined 5 blocks in the last 24hrs, so I can't really complain. |
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Mining on 2 droplets for 18 hours. Nothing yet.
ps fu showing quark is running.
I'm hoping they fix getmininginfo in the future so it actually shows hashing speed.  |
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For Amazon EC2 instances, you may be considering sudo for the apt-get and the cp commands and maybe more, since you are not root on them.
Absolutely true. On the Linode/DigitalOcean boxes, you are root. I'm wondering if the install would work if you 1) saved it as a shell script and 2) ran the script with sudo. Most of it should work, but I'm not sure if primecoin would drop the config files where they should be. |
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Setting up a Quarkcoin Miner on VPS for Absolute NoobsDonations welcome! BTC: 1E2egHUcLDAmcxcqZqpL18TPLx9Xj1akcV Ψ: AWHJbwoM67Ez12SHH4pH5DnJKPoMSdvLz2 Before You Begin- Download PuTTY (putty.exe) so you can connect to your VPS when the time comes.
- Sign up for a DigitalOcean or Linode account.
- During the creation process, be sure to create a node running Ubuntu 13.04 x64 (not x86)
- Pick whichever hardware configuration you like (number of CPUs, RAM, etc)
- If you signed up for DigitalOcean, check your email for your root password. If you signed up for Linode, your password will be what you specified.
- Run PuTTY and paste the node's IP address into the "Host Name" slot, then hit "Open" at the bottom. (figure 1)
- PuTTY will ask you to confirm the SSH key, press Yes (it will only ask once) (figure 2)
- Type or paste your password into PuTTY and press enter. To paste, simply right click.
- Note: You will not see the password characters! This is normal.
  Getting Down to Business- If you chose DigitalOcean, it's time to change the root password! Type passwd, press enter, then enter a new password. Just like before, the password characters will not show up. (figure 3)
- Copy this automated setup script to notepad. (highlighted version)
- At the top of the script, there are fields starting with "QUARKCOIN_". Fill these out with your desired info. Be sure to keep the quotes!
- QUARKCOIN_USERNAME is your quarkcoind username. It's required for quarkcoind to work properly!
- Copy the entire modified script from notepad and paste it into your PuTTY window (right click), then hit enter.
- The setup is now running. It will take approximately 10 minutes to complete.
- Once the script completes, you will see a brief help message and list of commands. (figure 4)
Congratulations! You're now mining for quarkcoins! It may take a few minutes before you actually begin mining. This is normal. Quarkcoin needs to download the blockchain before it can begin doing work. After it's caught up, you should be able to run ./peek and see that it's generating quarks.If you'd like to maximize your mining potential, please see my mini-guide on How to Clone DigitalOcean Droplets.
What Now?- If you haven't already, download the latest version of the Quarkcoin client.
- To "merge" your quarkcoin accounts into one, you'll need to gather the private keys from your VPS nodes
- Log into your droplet like you did at the beginning of the setup. This time your password will be what you set it to.
- Run ./peek to verify that quarkcoind is running. If it isn't, run ./start-quarkcoind and wait a few moments.
- Run ./myinfo to dump your addresses and private keys values. (figure 5)
- Copy the private key value (the random text after "PrivKey:") by highlighting it with your cursor.
- On your main computer, open Quarkcoin and import the private key.
- From the main Quarkcoin screen, click Help -> Debug Window
- In the new popup, select Console
- Type importprivkey YOUR_PRIVKEY SOME_LABEL and wait a few seconds. YOUR_PRIVKEY is what you copied from PuTTY and SOME_LABEL is what you want the address to appear as in your address book. (figure 6)
- Repeat this for as many private keys you wish to import. Once finished, close and re-run the Quarkcoin client. You should see the new addresses under "Receive".
- Note: if an instance of quarkcoind mines a block, it may not be under the address you exported. Wait for the block to be confirmed, then dump your addresses again. Alternately, modify the notify-wallet script to FTP a backup of your wallet.dat file.
- Occasionally you may wish to update your quarkcoin miner when new versions or patches are released. To do this...
- Log into your DigitalOcean droplet
- Run ./stop-quarkcoind to stop the quarkcoind process
- Run ./build-quarkcoin to update and rebuild quarkcoind
- Run ./start-quarkcoind to start your quarkcoind process again
- Wait a few minutes and run ./peek to make sure it's running correctly
- If you'd like to remotely backup your wallet.dat file whenever you mint a new block, check this short guide.
Changelog- 27 August, 2013
- Cron reboot script now works properly. (Damn you cron and your newlines!)
- ~/peek no longer shows orphaned blocks. Balance will only include transactions with one or more confirmations.
- ~/myinfo now shows all addresses, not just those in the last ~100 transactions. The pattern matching has been made more generic, so it works with just about any coin on main/testnet. It also only does a lookup on addresses that generated a block or received currency.
- Now includes a ~/restart-quarkcoind script
- 20 August, 2013
- Tweaked apt-get package names to grab most compatible package for the given install setup
- Package list now includes fail2ban by default for some semblance of security
- Package list now includes nano as a text editor. Why some installs don't come with this is beyond me.
- Swapfile now persists after reboot.
- Auto reboot on kernel panic
- 15 August, 2013 - Now Amazon EC2 compliant. Also adds quakcoin miner to server startup.
- 13 August, 2013 - Lots of updates! Applied changes similar to those in the Primecoin script.
- 30 July, 2013 - Initial release
NotesThe images in this guide are from my other primecoin guide and are slightly dated. The images serve to illustrate, but shouldn't be taken as definitive. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to speak up.
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It's usually pretty straight forward: apt-get to install dependencies, clone the git, compile, run.
I've got a quick setup guide for primecoin in my signature. You can probably just tweak it and have something going in an hour.
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It's asking me to set: rpcpassword=<password> in the configuration file. When I started it up. How do I set a password?? That was a mistake on my behalf. I've updated the script, so please try it again. Sorry for the hassle. |
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How I can use only 2-3 from my threads, not need to use all 4 or just not need to use all 100% from my processor !
In your primecoin.conf file, add "genproclimit=N" where N is how many threads you want. -1 means "use them all". Oh, thanks! Hm, I try with 3 and -3 before any time and still 100%, but now with 2 it's 90% it's ok but strange, coz in pool with 3 I have 80%, with 2 I have 50% utilization and I have no other processes that to make more... But better from 100%, anyway... If you get desperate enough, you can force the primecoin process to only have access to certain CPU cores. Just open task manager, right click the primecoin process, then click "Set Affinity". Select which cores you want it to run on, then hit ok. |
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Yes a single Opteron dual core @ 2.8 will easily outperform 2x Xeon DP (single core, HT) @ 3.6 GHz. By a factor of 2-3x. AMD CPU do more work per cycle than intel designs. I get 1600+ and 600-700 PPS respectively from these. The memory and memory subsystem is slightly faster on the AMD too, but not really by much. Both are 64 bit.
As to Tommo_Aus, you can't just paste a huge list of 'results' giving 1 result for each hardware setup. If you look at the getmininginfo it is refreshed once per minute. If you give that command again in 1 minutes time the CPM and PPS will be different.
For example CPM might go like this: 4, 4, 4, 5, 8, 1, 4, 4, 8, 6, 6, 5, 5, 4, 7
So if you had used getmining info when it was a low value... or a high value for that matter... you are misleading yourself.
The thing to do is take an average of MANY CPM counts (or PPS counts).
You should see my awk command, it does exactly that. Another thing to note: no setting is "good" or "bad". Each benchmark should be considered in relation to previous benchmarks taken under the same circumstances. Comparing it to somebody else's hardware and setup is pointless, only compare it to your own previous tests. |
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How I can use only 2-3 from my threads, not need to use all 4 or just not need to use all 100% from my processor !
In your primecoin.conf file, add "genproclimit=N" where N is how many threads you want. -1 means "use them all". |
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ok i got cygwin installed, launched a cygwin terminal. how do I "cd to my primecoin directory"? I dont know what that means. Sorry
cd is the command for "change directory". Cygwin uses *nix style directory paths, so your primecoin directory should be something like: cd "/cygdrive/c/Users/your_username/AppData/Roaming/Primecoin" |
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Here's something I came up with while benchmarking some parameter sets. Before you begin, be sure to delete your debug.log file so you don't have any previous info in it. Run primecoin with your desired settings and have it run for a few hours. (Anything less than 2hrs and I can't guarantee accuracy) In the directory with your debug.log file, run grep primemeter debug.log | awk '{s1+=$4;s2+=$6;s3+=$8} END {printf"%10s: %10d\n%10s: %10d\n%10s: %10d\n","Prime/h",s1/NR,"Test/h",s2/NR,"5-Chain/h",s3/NR}'You'll need to 1) be on a *nix system or 2) have cygwin installed. This averages all the stats produced in debug.log. Since the stats are of 60 second intervals, no one data point is relevant, but a few hundred of them are. Example output: Prime/h: 8138437
Test/h: 72084650
5-Chain/h: 330
when you say "run in the directory of your debug.lof file, do you mean from use run>cmd>blahblahdirectoryofdebugYOURCODE>enter? Do I delete the debug.log file and just add a new.txt and rename it? after each test can I just rename the debug.log file to "test1.txt" and then create a new one? Ill be happy to post all results. Sorry im n00bish Before you start that, you're going to need to install Cygwin because Windows doesn't have grep or awk. You'd launch a Cygwin terminal, cd to your primecoin AppData directory, then run the command. If you want to empty your debug.log file, you can use echo "" > debug.log. |
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Here's something I came up with while benchmarking some parameter sets. Before you begin, be sure to delete your debug.log file so you don't have any previous info in it. Run primecoin with your desired settings and have it run for a few hours. (Anything less than 2hrs and I can't guarantee accuracy) In the directory with your debug.log file, run grep primemeter debug.log | awk '{s1+=$4;s2+=$6;s3+=$8} END {printf"%10s: %10d\n%10s: %10d\n%10s: %10d\n","Prime/h",s1/NR,"Test/h",s2/NR,"5-Chain/h",s3/NR}'You'll need to 1) be on a *nix system or 2) have cygwin installed. This averages all the stats produced in debug.log. Since the stats are of 60 second intervals, no one data point is relevant, but a few hundred of them are. Example output: Prime/h: 8138437
Test/h: 72084650
5-Chain/h: 330
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for hp8 are there more settings i should try here for 3770k?
Try your previous best settings, but fiddle with roundsievepercentage to see what works best. |
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I think yPool.net is one of the only ones that has pooled XPM mining.
The downside is that they had to make a proprietary miner to work with it. I think a "share" counts as finding a chain of diff 5.0 or greater.
Oh, did I mention that the miner uses windows libraries? You can run it with Wine, but on a headless box it's a giant pain. (Ever try installing Wine on an x64 system? It's a nightmare.)
And also, does there miner have the performance benefits of all our hp clients? Maybe the just turned the original sunny king release into a pool miner, but now it's at a disadvantage versus the high performance clients. My best guess, if you have enough primes and chains, solo mine  Also, the added luck factor is fun - no, I'm not a gambling addict  I poked through their github. It seems like the most they've implemented is sievesize. I tried hacking in a sievepercentage feature (it worked), but I had major issues compiling it. Even without modification, compiling it from the github source had it running at 1/4th the normal speed. So yeah. I gave up on that quickly. Also, it performs terribly on AMD processors. Almost by a factor of 3. |
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Well the good news is hp8 has been really stable. What are guys using to pool?
I think yPool.net is one of the only ones that has pooled XPM mining. The downside is that they had to make a proprietary miner to work with it. I think a "share" counts as finding a chain of diff 5.0 or greater. Oh, did I mention that the miner uses windows libraries? You can run it with Wine, but on a headless box it's a giant pain. (Ever try installing Wine on an x64 system? It's a nightmare.) |
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What's better to optimize for: primes/sec, chains/min, or 5-chains/hr?
Anybody? |
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What's better to optimize for: primes/sec, chains/min, or 5-chains/hr?
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