[ANN] ZERO - fork of Zcash with harder mining params

[farsky]

Hello everybody !
I do not understand what is happening.

I run zero_nheqminer on win 7 x64, CPU is i3-6100, RAM 8 Gb (i use -t 4)
CPU uses - only 25%, RAM uses (by zero_nheqminer process 4.4 GB).
Why NOT 99-100% CPU ??
And Why highly increased activity HDD - continuously buzzing.
zero_nheqminer use HDD, not RAM and not CPU
its f*cking joke, i am shoked !
what he does with HDD ?


and is it normal ?

[11:19:52][0x00000880] miner#3 | Starting thread #3 (CPU-TROMP-SSE2)
[11:19:56][0x000007d8] stratum | Connected!
[11:19:56][0x000007d8] stratum | Subscribed to stratum server
[11:19:56][0x000007d8] miner | Extranonce is f6eeff27000000000000000027ffeef5
[11:19:56][0x000007d8] stratum | Target set to 969696969696969696969696969696969
6969696969696969696969696969696
[11:19:56][0x000007d8] stratum | Received new job #ef1

[Sir William]

My guess is that you don't have enough ram, so it's using the hard drive as extra memory.  Looking at some of the earlier posts, you'll see that each core requires 4GB of ram.  Since you only have 8GB for your system (and Windows itself requires some of that), you cannot run -t 4 without swapping to the hard drive.  It should be -t 1.  It will be VERY slow; like less than 1 sol.

[ivan1975]

Yes.
With -t 3 on my PC it eat 10.3Gb RAM.
Run with -t 4 you need 16Gb RAM at least.

[farsky]

yes, thanks ! with -t 2 HDD activity less
hashrate is 0.2-0.3 sol
I do not know, it's a little or normally

[Daniko7]

@Ocminer why is zero not listed on the mainpage of suprnova?

[konny77]

On an Intel i7-6700K you get

Code:

- You have validated 1111 transactions!
- You have contributed 0.3908 Sol/s on average to the network solution rate.
- You have completed 1066 Equihash solver runs.

with 6 threads.

it make sense to mine with that hash, i can't tell the actual income on the pool, what is the revenue per day?

I don't really know whether it actually pays off. Since I have not set up the pool miner, I cannot compare it. But a half day of mining results in

Code:

- You have validated 3745 transactions!
- You have contributed 0.4034 Sol/s on average to the network solution rate.
- You have completed 9392 Equihash solver runs.
- You have mined 4 blocks!
  Orphaned: 0 blocks, Immature: 40.00 ZER, Mature: 0.00 ZER

so you get roughly 8 blocks per day. Btw, how much do you get out of the pool right now?

[matejbilahora]

@Ocminer why is zero not listed on the mainpage of suprnova?

Right now zero is only experiment. Who know what will come out from it.

[ocminer]

@Ocminer why is zero not listed on the mainpage of suprnova?

Right now zero is only experiment. Who know what will come out from it.

True, I didn't hear anything for a long time from the dev, but I've listed it now.

[joehoebot]

i chatted with someone today that has heard from the dev.
i am mining as much zero as i can.
i might even do something totally shocking and actually send some btc to tradesatoshi.
scary.
 

[joehoebot]

@Ocminer why is zero not listed on the mainpage of suprnova?

Right now zero is only experiment. Who know what will come out from it.

True, I didn't hear anything for a long time from the dev, but I've listed it now.

wish i didn't have to look at that red banner across the top of my pool dashboard though 

[georgeandrews]

Maybe ZERO will be listed on other exchange soon so we can buy safe.
Never used that tradesatoshi. It might be ok or not ...but that volume...

[ocminer]

@Ocminer why is zero not listed on the mainpage of suprnova?

Right now zero is only experiment. Who know what will come out from it.

True, I didn't hear anything for a long time from the dev, but I've listed it now.

wish i didn't have to look at that red banner across the top of my pool dashboard though 

Of course, I'll disable that for now until we finally get a decent miner... Where are all the miner coders ?

[farsky]

guys, you say that on 1 core required 8 Gb RAM
i launch with -t 1 and zero_nheqminer use 3 Gb, and this volume is constantly changing in the range of 1.5 - 4.2
( usually this 3.2 Gb)
what am I doing wrong ?

Why not use all 8 Gb ?

[Flenger]

Pool Workers: 6

my 2
whose remaining 4?

[OXUS]

guys, you say that on 1 core required 8 Gb RAM
i launch with -t 1 and zero_nheqminer use 3 Gb, and this volume is constantly changing in the range of 1.5 - 4.2
( usually this 3.2 Gb)
what am I doing wrong ?

Why not use all 8 Gb ?

1 core = 3 Gb of rams

[radix42]

If this coin was slightly more liquid or had dev bounties, I'd consider doing a Windows version for it...I did the port of Zcash to Mac, Windows and arm64, zclassic to Mac (and helped with Win), and just did the port of Komodo to Windows (another Zcash fork with....other things added )....as I find this coins concept intriguing...but I don't have the time right now to do it for nothing.

I also did the initial work on getting the Insight explorer working for Komodo, and have done customizations of it for clients for Zcash, and ported bitnodes to zcash (znodes, in my github).

So if this coin is at all alive and kicking later in March, I may do an explorer and Windows port on a lark if they are still not there.

If I had the gear to mine it, I'd do it sooner.

[radix42]

Of course, someone can just dig around in my forks and yank out the right stuff from various branches for a Win/Mac port of zero...after all its all MIT licensed, and that's what zdash are doing

[ocminer]

If this coin was slightly more liquid or had dev bounties, I'd consider doing a Windows version for it...I did the port of Zcash to Mac, Windows and arm64, zclassic to Mac (and helped with Win), and just did the port of Komodo to Windows (another Zcash fork with....other things added )....as I find this coins concept intriguing...but I don't have the time right now to do it for nothing.

I also did the initial work on getting the Insight explorer working for Komodo, and have done customizations of it for clients for Zcash, and ported bitnodes to zcash (znodes, in my github).

So if this coin is at all alive and kicking later in March, I may do an explorer and Windows port on a lark if they are still not there.

If I had the gear to mine it, I'd do it sooner.

Is there a repo of your insight fork on your github? I might try setting up the block explorer myself when I have some time

[joehoebot]

If this coin was slightly more liquid or had dev bounties, I'd consider doing a Windows version for it...I did the port of Zcash to Mac, Windows and arm64, zclassic to Mac (and helped with Win), and just did the port of Komodo to Windows (another Zcash fork with....other things added )....as I find this coins concept intriguing...but I don't have the time right now to do it for nothing.

I also did the initial work on getting the Insight explorer working for Komodo, and have done customizations of it for clients for Zcash, and ported bitnodes to zcash (znodes, in my github).

So if this coin is at all alive and kicking later in March, I may do an explorer and Windows port on a lark if they are still not there.

If I had the gear to mine it, I'd do it sooner.

can you define "not doing it for nothing" ? 

[Jerry S]

i5 with 4 threads eats about 13GB of RAM and get random sol up to 0,6. is that normal?
no GPU miner yet?