[XPM] Pool mining primecoin using DigitalOcean (VPS)

[Lauda]

I received the letter after asking them for an increase in droplet limit. I'm going to continue using DO after primecoin so didn't see any harm with giving my name and phone number. Didn't tell them fb or twitter, blog or website. Figure they just wanted to make sure I was human. I'm using Paypal, no cc on file.

Ran 15 droplets all night. 1-core/512mb pps 50-200 = 4 blocks



My i5 running 3-cores each independent, pps 100-200, found 4 blocks in same amount of time. G2020 (2-core) has found nothing past 24 hrs.

Tried one of their 20-cores yesterday but it never got above 1400pps. Will run a few 8-cores today. Somebody is finding all these blocks.........

Yes, but the mystery is who and using what? 

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[Moebius327]

I received the letter after asking them for an increase in droplet limit. I'm going to continue using DO after primecoin so didn't see any harm with giving my name and phone number. Didn't tell them fb or twitter, blog or website. Figure they just wanted to make sure I was human. I'm using Paypal, no cc on file.

Ran 15 droplets all night. 1-core/512mb pps 50-200 = 4 blocks



My i5 running 3-cores each independent, pps 100-200, found 4 blocks in same amount of time. G2020 (2-core) has found nothing past 24 hrs.

Tried one of their 20-cores yesterday but it never got above 1400pps. Will run a few 8-cores today. Somebody is finding all these blocks.........

Yes, but the mystery is who and using what? 

I saw a botnet with 350 rats yesterday.

[n4ru]

What provider is that?

Secret. 
I'll give you a hint: I paid with bitcoin.

can we get a name? Can't find one that bills hourly.

[Teka]

What provider is that?

Secret. 
I'll give you a hint: I paid with bitcoin.

can we get a name? Can't find one that bills hourly.

+1 A name would be useful or if you really want send us a referral link.

[Kavre]

I am a bit confused

can't get it work properly

if I set setgenerate true -1 (this is random and it should use all core/threads)
work like 80pps +-20

with setgenerate true 3 works 300pps

i have 8cpu with 4 cores, which will be the best settings I really tried almost all of it but with no success

thanks

[Sondey10mg]

I get 2900pps with the 16-core. But no blocks so far 

[vinne81]

I am a bit confused

can't get it work properly

if I set setgenerate true -1 (this is random and it should use all core/threads)
work like 80pps +-20

with setgenerate true 3 works 300pps

i have 8cpu with 4 cores, which will be the best settings I really tried almost all of it but with no success

thanks

Same here, 32-core Xeon. If I use 30 cores, I get 1100PPS, if I use 10 cores, I get more 1300 PPS. Go figure.

Really, there's a lot talk about "optimized for this" and "optimized for that". With the initial release this particular system had 0 to 1 PPS (!) Now it gets 1100PPS, when other older servers get 2500. When this system mines scrypt it gets 200khash/s, this is not a light server. Something is still very wrong in the code of the client.

[altsay]

Does anyone use Chemisist's rebuild?

https://github.com/Chemisist/primecoin

[eule]

can we get a name? Can't find one that bills hourly.

No I won't give a name as it's a rather small host, but it's in this outdated but useful list:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Virtual_private_server

[itod]

Does anyone use Chemisist's rebuild?

https://github.com/Chemisist/primecoin

I've git cloned it and recompiled it on the smallest droplet (512MB 1 core) an hour ago. Didn't even had to re-size it to more memory, temporarily creating and destroying swap file for compilation, compiled while still mining.

Excellent results, it's doubled pps to previous version. It varies 250-350 pps. Recommended.

[kimosan]

Does anyone use Chemisist's rebuild?

https://github.com/Chemisist/primecoin

I've git cloned it and recompiled it on the smallest droplet (512MB 1 core) an hour ago. Didn't even had to re-size it to more memory, temporarily creating and destroying swap file for compilation, compiled while still mining.

Excellent results, it's doubled pps to previous version. It varies 250-350 pps. Recommended.

Same. Getting 300-450pps

[n4ru]

What provider is that?

Secret. 
I'll give you a hint: I paid with bitcoin.

can we get a name? Can't find one that bills hourly.

+1 A name would be useful or if you really want send us a referral link.

I'm looking around for it but can't find any bitcoin ones that bill hourly >__<

[ivanlabrie]

Does anyone use Chemisist's rebuild?

https://github.com/Chemisist/primecoin

I've git cloned it and recompiled it on the smallest droplet (512MB 1 core) an hour ago. Didn't even had to re-size it to more memory, temporarily creating and destroying swap file for compilation, compiled while still mining.

Excellent results, it's doubled pps to previous version. It varies 250-350 pps. Recommended.

Same. Getting 300-450pps

How do I compile that?

I have the original Sunny build with the sieve update in my VPS'

Thanks for the input!

[adambeazley]

So, i have a question about primecoin mining, how exactly does each block gets mined.

Are basically all blocks open until they are solved? In other words, if my miner finds a block and is working on that block to solve it, then can Joe Blow's miner finds that same block and solve it quicker and earn the coins? Or do i have a flawed understanding of a "block"?

What Im getting at, is it better (not taking electricity into consideration) to have a bunch of separate slower pps computers (or miner instances) or one beast computer (one mining instance) with the same combined pps as all of he smaller ones?

I would think, that if a little luck is involved in finding blocks, then the more instances, the higher your probability of "finding" a block right?


Thanks, I'm a little bit of a mining noob, just trying to learn the terminology and technology better.

Thanks,

[ivanlabrie]

So, i have a question about primecoin mining, how exactly does each block gets mined.

Are basically all blocks open until they are solved? In other words, if my miner finds a block and is working on that block to solve it, then can Joe Blow's miner finds that same block and solve it quicker and earn the coins? Or do i have a flawed understanding of a "block"?

What Im getting at, is it better (not taking electricity into consideration) to have a bunch of separate slower pps computers (or miner instances) or one beast computer (one mining instance) with the same combined pps as all of he smaller ones?

I would think, that if a little luck is involved in finding blocks, then the more instances, the higher your probability of "finding" a block right?


Thanks, I'm a little bit of a mining noob, just trying to learn the terminology and technology better.

Thanks,

Your question is a bit offtopic in this thread, but I'll try to answer to it.

You can find a block at the same time, or slightly after someone else, but you won't get rewards, blocks are mined and the whole network knows it has been mined thanks to the proof of work algorithm which makes sure all the network is synced, since it takes certain amount of work to figure out the correct prime number chain for each block. Thus no miner can get ahead of the whole network unless it surpasses its power by 51%+.

[Moebius327]

Does anyone use Chemisist's rebuild?

https://github.com/Chemisist/primecoin

I've git cloned it and recompiled it on the smallest droplet (512MB 1 core) an hour ago. Didn't even had to re-size it to more memory, temporarily creating and destroying swap file for compilation, compiled while still mining.

Excellent results, it's doubled pps to previous version. It varies 250-350 pps. Recommended.

Same. Getting 300-450pps

I get this error.

Code:

In file included from main.cpp:16:0:
prime.h: In constructor ‘CSieveOfEratosthenes::CSieveOfEratosthenes(unsigned int, unsigned int, uint256, CBigNum&)’:
prime.h:109:6: error: ‘prevWeaveTime’ was not declared in this scope
prime.h:110:3: error: ‘prevTotalTime’ was not declared in this scope
make: *** [obj/main.o] Error 1

[RandyFolds]

Just FYI the mods of the forum have been notified of this and will be passing your email address and list of your login IP addresses to digital ocean.  I suggest you go hide in a corner somewhere for a while.

Pahahaha! Don't kid yourself with the notion that Bitcointalk mods proactively doing ANYTHING proactive to prevent the rampant fraud and abuse in the community here, let alone doing it for some other website.

[adambeazley]

So, i have a question about primecoin mining, how exactly does each block gets mined.

Are basically all blocks open until they are solved? In other words, if my miner finds a block and is working on that block to solve it, then can Joe Blow's miner finds that same block and solve it quicker and earn the coins? Or do i have a flawed understanding of a "block"?

What Im getting at, is it better (not taking electricity into consideration) to have a bunch of separate slower pps computers (or miner instances) or one beast computer (one mining instance) with the same combined pps as all of he smaller ones?

I would think, that if a little luck is involved in finding blocks, then the more instances, the higher your probability of "finding" a block right?


Thanks, I'm a little bit of a mining noob, just trying to learn the terminology and technology better.

Thanks,

Your question is a bit offtopic in this thread, but I'll try to answer to it.

You can find a block at the same time, or slightly after someone else, but you won't get rewards, blocks are mined and the whole network knows it has been mined thanks to the proof of work algorithm which makes sure all the network is synced, since it takes certain amount of work to figure out the correct prime number chain for each block. Thus no miner can get ahead of the whole network unless it surpasses its power by 51%+.

Sorry for the off-topic question, but thanks for your prompt answer. I get it now... So if everyone is working on the same block at any given time, would'nt it be better to have a more powerful pps machine than a bunch of smaller instances?

[ivanlabrie]

So, i have a question about primecoin mining, how exactly does each block gets mined.

Are basically all blocks open until they are solved? In other words, if my miner finds a block and is working on that block to solve it, then can Joe Blow's miner finds that same block and solve it quicker and earn the coins? Or do i have a flawed understanding of a "block"?

What Im getting at, is it better (not taking electricity into consideration) to have a bunch of separate slower pps computers (or miner instances) or one beast computer (one mining instance) with the same combined pps as all of he smaller ones?

I would think, that if a little luck is involved in finding blocks, then the more instances, the higher your probability of "finding" a block right?


Thanks, I'm a little bit of a mining noob, just trying to learn the terminology and technology better.

Thanks,

Your question is a bit offtopic in this thread, but I'll try to answer to it.

You can find a block at the same time, or slightly after someone else, but you won't get rewards, blocks are mined and the whole network knows it has been mined thanks to the proof of work algorithm which makes sure all the network is synced, since it takes certain amount of work to figure out the correct prime number chain for each block. Thus no miner can get ahead of the whole network unless it surpasses its power by 51%+.

Sorry for the off-topic question, but thanks for your prompt answer. I get it now... So if everyone is working on the same block at any given time, would'nt it be better to have a more powerful pps machine than a bunch of smaller instances?

Maybe, but it depends...also, it depends on how well the code works spread through different threads of the same cpu.
Apparently it stops scaling at 10 cores per cpu, and a 32 core cpu is slower than a few 10 core ones.

[Carra23]

Sorry for the off-topic question, but thanks for your prompt answer. I get it now... So if everyone is working on the same block at any given time, would'nt it be better to have a more powerful pps machine than a bunch of smaller instances?

No. The probability of hitting a block is proportional to pps. Your net pps at constant diff over a long time should give you the same no of blocks no matter whether they are on a single or multiple source.