in2tactics
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November 23, 2016, 02:01:54 AM |
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Has anyone set up a ready to run install for the RPi for this? Looks awesome. But I'd rather not tie a PC up, running a Pi with my miners seems to me like the best way to go?
p2pool needs a high power PC. Running it on RPi would be real bad. Concur. CPU performance aside, the RPi does not have the raw I/O performance necessary to cope with reading/writing both the blockchain and the sharechain. The getwork latency would be astronomical.
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November 23, 2016, 03:54:40 PM |
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Has anyone set up a ready to run install for the RPi for this? Looks awesome. But I'd rather not tie a PC up, running a Pi with my miners seems to me like the best way to go?
I have, but just for fun, it would be pointless for mining.... The Intel NUC might be worth checking out: https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/overview.html
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November 23, 2016, 03:54:59 PM |
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Thx
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November 23, 2016, 03:56:28 PM |
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p2pool needs a high power PC. Running it on RPi would be real bad.
Concur. CPU performance aside, the RPi does not have the raw I/O performance necessary to cope with reading/writing both the blockchain and the sharechain. The getwork latency would be astronomical. 4 cores in the pi 3, as long as your not stuffing phs down its throat it should be fine. The IO issue can be solved by booting off the sd card and then mounting a usb drive as the root filesystem post-boot (or using u-boot to boot the usb drive directly, and just have an sd card for the u-boot and firmware portions). Out of the box with an sd card, there is no way the IO would ever be fast enough. If they ever finish the compute model for pi 3, that may be an option as I believe its emmc and much faster than regular sd card (or USB) IO. The RAM is the next issue you would run into. p2pool itself on bitcoin chews about 700mb ram (on one of my systems). Pi 3 comes with 1GB ram. You could run p2pool on one pi 3, no wallets/daemons would work in the remaining amount of ram.
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November 23, 2016, 03:59:31 PM |
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p2pool needs a high power PC. Running it on RPi would be real bad.
Concur. CPU performance aside, the RPi does not have the raw I/O performance necessary to cope with reading/writing both the blockchain and the sharechain. The getwork latency would be astronomical. 4 cores in the pi 3, as long as your not stuffing phs down its throat it should be fine. The IO issue can be solved by booting off the sd card and then mounting a usb drive as the root filesystem post-boot (or using u-boot to boot the usb drive directly, and just have an sd card for the u-boot and firmware portions). Out of the box with an sd card, there is no way the IO would ever be fast enough. If they ever finish the compute model for pi 3, that may be an option as I believe its emmc and much faster than regular sd card (or USB) IO. The RAM is the next issue you would run into. p2pool itself on bitcoin chews about 700mb ram (on one of my systems). Pi 3 comes with 1GB ram. You could run p2pool on one pi 3, no wallets/daemons would work in the remaining amount of ram. Ya I figured it was to much to ask for I love the idea of the peer pooling, would like to see it built into mining controllers, getting away from centralized pools all together
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November 23, 2016, 04:37:40 PM |
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Thx I'm sorry but I discovered another little bug. Please update.
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KorbinDallas
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November 23, 2016, 09:57:58 PM |
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Happy Thanksgiving P2Pool'ers!
I've been mining with P2Pool for about a year now, made it thru the 16.0 update, but would welcome your opinions on the upgrade to Segwit. Is the current github update compatible, or will Forrest post something official on his website?
Cheers 🍻
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Ruu \o/
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November 23, 2016, 10:08:28 PM |
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p2pool needs a high power PC. Running it on RPi would be real bad.
Concur. CPU performance aside, the RPi does not have the raw I/O performance necessary to cope with reading/writing both the blockchain and the sharechain. The getwork latency would be astronomical. 4 cores in the pi 3, as long as you 'r E not stuffing phs down its throat it should be fine. Still useless. Extra cores, but all of them run slow as shit. Per CPU core performance is everything for p2pool, especially since it's python which is mostly single threaded.
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in2tactics
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November 28, 2016, 11:04:42 AM |
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Sweet! We got another block. As usual, we received next to zero transaction fees.
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November 29, 2016, 03:25:02 PM |
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I was asked by a user on Reddit to update the P2Pool Network Visualization at http://p2pool.org/nodes/I did this morning... Date Scanner Run | Total Nodes | Public Nodes | Private Nodes | 11-29-2016 | 103 | 58 | 45 | 10-14-2016 | 91 | 47 | 44 |
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December 05, 2016, 08:07:44 AM |
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Ruu \o/
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December 05, 2016, 08:34:37 AM |
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And yet you're still mining tiny blocks...
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in2tactics
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December 05, 2016, 08:56:53 AM |
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And yet you're still mining tiny blocks... It is very frustrating.
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December 05, 2016, 12:30:20 PM |
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How can you say it's tiny! Do you have any scales or anything else ?
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veqtrus
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December 09, 2016, 06:57:39 PM |
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P2Pool will produce blocks with witnesses upon activation on the P2Pool network, which can happen before activation on the Bitcoin network. Bitcoin Core doesn't accept such blocks before activation (even though it could strip the witnesses) so I made it so appropriate block representations will be submitted through the RPC interface.
Please note that submitting via the Bitcoin P2P network doesn't work anyway since headers-first synchronisation (P2Pool doesn't support the getheaders message).
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December 15, 2016, 01:23:47 AM |
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Not so tiny of a BLOCK today !
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in2tactics
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December 15, 2016, 04:49:48 AM |
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Not so tiny of a BLOCK today ! Exactly!
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