[XPM] [ANN] Primecoin High Performance | HP14 released!

[paulthetafy]

I'm having a strange issue with HP9 on an 16 core xeon.  It's a dedicated server split into two 8-thread VPS's, each with 8GB RAM, and both of them are performing poorly...

"blocks" : 99198,
    "chainspermin" : 2,
    "chainsperday" : 0.28352104,
    "currentblocksize" : 1000,
    "currentblocktx" : 0,
    "difficulty" : 9.37849414,
    "errors" : "",
    "generate" : true,
    "genproclimit" : -1,
    "roundsievepercentage" : 70,
    "primespersec" : 647,
    "pooledtx" : 0,
    "sievepercentage" : 6,
    "sievesize" : 1000000,
    "testnet" : false

I can't get the PPS or CPM/CPD values up to anything like a decent number.  I have other similar VPS's with different providers running at 10 times these numbers.  Any ideas?

[blackboy]

I'm having a strange issue with HP9 on an 16 core xeon.  It's a dedicated server split into two 8-thread VPS's, each with 8GB RAM, and both of them are performing poorly...

"blocks" : 99198,
    "chainspermin" : 2,
    "chainsperday" : 0.28352104,
    "currentblocksize" : 1000,
    "currentblocktx" : 0,
    "difficulty" : 9.37849414,
    "errors" : "",
    "generate" : true,
    "genproclimit" : -1,
    "roundsievepercentage" : 70,
    "primespersec" : 647,
    "pooledtx" : 0,
    "sievepercentage" : 6,
    "sievesize" : 1000000,
    "testnet" : false

I can't get the PPS or CPM/CPD values up to anything like a decent number.  I have other similar VPS's with different providers running at 10 times these numbers.  Any ideas?

Set sievepercentage at 10.

[paulthetafy]

I'm having a strange issue with HP9 on an 16 core xeon.  It's a dedicated server split into two 8-thread VPS's, each with 8GB RAM, and both of them are performing poorly...

"blocks" : 99198,
    "chainspermin" : 2,
    "chainsperday" : 0.28352104,
    "currentblocksize" : 1000,
    "currentblocktx" : 0,
    "difficulty" : 9.37849414,
    "errors" : "",
    "generate" : true,
    "genproclimit" : -1,
    "roundsievepercentage" : 70,
    "primespersec" : 647,
    "pooledtx" : 0,
    "sievepercentage" : 6,
    "sievesize" : 1000000,
    "testnet" : false

I can't get the PPS or CPM/CPD values up to anything like a decent number.  I have other similar VPS's with different providers running at 10 times these numbers.  Any ideas?

Set sievepercentage at 10.

That gives me a slight reduction in both PPS and CPD, hence why it was at 6.  It's something more fundamental than that I feel.

EDIT: CPU usage is at 800% showing all 8 cores are maxed out

[vinne81]

I'm having a strange issue with HP9 on an 16 core xeon.  It's a dedicated server split into two 8-thread VPS's, each with 8GB RAM, and both of them are performing poorly...

"blocks" : 99198,
    "chainspermin" : 2,
    "chainsperday" : 0.28352104,
    "currentblocksize" : 1000,
    "currentblocktx" : 0,
    "difficulty" : 9.37849414,
    "errors" : "",
    "generate" : true,
    "genproclimit" : -1,
    "roundsievepercentage" : 70,
    "primespersec" : 647,
    "pooledtx" : 0,
    "sievepercentage" : 6,
    "sievesize" : 1000000,
    "testnet" : false

I can't get the PPS or CPM/CPD values up to anything like a decent number.  I have other similar VPS's with different providers running at 10 times these numbers.  Any ideas?

Set sievepercentage at 10.

That gives me a slight reduction in both PPS and CPD, hence why it was at 6.  It's something more fundamental than that I feel.

EDIT: CPU usage is at 800% showing all 8 cores are maxed out

Can you just wipe the system, install an OS and mine without the VPS? Or are those VPS used for something else normally

[prophetx]

anyone know of another pool besides ypool? or is there source to run your own p2pool for this out there?

[paulthetafy]

I'm having a strange issue with HP9 on an 16 core xeon.  It's a dedicated server split into two 8-thread VPS's, each with 8GB RAM, and both of them are performing poorly...

"blocks" : 99198,
    "chainspermin" : 2,
    "chainsperday" : 0.28352104,
    "currentblocksize" : 1000,
    "currentblocktx" : 0,
    "difficulty" : 9.37849414,
    "errors" : "",
    "generate" : true,
    "genproclimit" : -1,
    "roundsievepercentage" : 70,
    "primespersec" : 647,
    "pooledtx" : 0,
    "sievepercentage" : 6,
    "sievesize" : 1000000,
    "testnet" : false

I can't get the PPS or CPM/CPD values up to anything like a decent number.  I have other similar VPS's with different providers running at 10 times these numbers.  Any ideas?

Set sievepercentage at 10.

That gives me a slight reduction in both PPS and CPD, hence why it was at 6.  It's something more fundamental than that I feel.

EDIT: CPU usage is at 800% showing all 8 cores are maxed out

Can you just wipe the system, install an OS and mine without the VPS? Or are those VPS used for something else normally

Unfortunately not, limitation of the provider as it's a dedicated cloud, i.e I have a dedicated box but have to create VPS's within it.

[bcp19]

anyone know of another pool besides ypool? or is there source to run your own p2pool for this out there?

no and no.  XPM doesn't use normal SHA or scrypt parameters, ypool created their own miner and set up the whole share system they use.  I personally think it'd be BS to use their work to build a competing pool, figure it out on your own.

[prophetx]

anyone know of another pool besides ypool? or is there source to run your own p2pool for this out there?

no and no.  XPM doesn't use normal SHA or scrypt parameters, ypool created their own miner and set up the whole share system they use.  I personally think it'd be BS to use their work to build a competing pool, figure it out on your own.

oh really? I had no idea it is not sha or scrypt based........

dude get off your high horse a lot of this stuff is open source, i'm simply asking a question and looking for a fact based answer ... not looking for the opinion of the peanut gallery....

anyway i'll go mine some other coin with my machines since ypool is not very reliable...

[bcp19]

anyone know of another pool besides ypool? or is there source to run your own p2pool for this out there?

no and no.  XPM doesn't use normal SHA or scrypt parameters, ypool created their own miner and set up the whole share system they use.  I personally think it'd be BS to use their work to build a competing pool, figure it out on your own.

oh really? I had no idea it is not sha or scrypt based........

dude get off your high horse a lot of this stuff is open source, i'm simply asking a question and looking for a fact based answer ... not looking for the opinion of the peanut gallery....

anyway i'll go mine some other coin with my machines since ypool is not very reliable...

Don't let the door hit ya <wave>

[FoldingTime]

I've got great stats but no coins for over 2 days 

8 core : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 0 @ 2.00GHz

Code:

Stats: {
    "blocks" : 99324,
    "chainspermin" : 11,
    "chainsperday" : 0.93862504,
    "currentblocksize" : 1000,
    "currentblocktx" : 0,
    "difficulty" : 9.38212335,
    "errors" : "",
    "generate" : true,
    "genproclimit" : -1,
    "roundsievepercentage" : 70,
    "primespersec" : 1915,
    "pooledtx" : 0,
    "sievepercentage" : 10,
    "sievesize" : 1000000,
    "testnet" : false
}

Another identical one:

8 core : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 0 @ 2.00GHz

Code:

Stats: {
    "blocks" : 99324,
    "chainspermin" : 12,
    "chainsperday" : 0.93196965,
    "currentblocksize" : 1000,
    "currentblocktx" : 0,
    "difficulty" : 9.38212335,
    "errors" : "",
    "generate" : true,
    "genproclimit" : -1,
    "roundsievepercentage" : 70,
    "primespersec" : 1901,
    "pooledtx" : 0,
    "sievepercentage" : 10,
    "sievesize" : 1000000,
    "testnet" : false
}

No blocks for 2 days running hp9.

Is there anything wrong with the above stats for this kit?

[Schleicher]

I'm having a strange issue with HP9 on an 16 core xeon.  It's a dedicated server split into two 8-thread VPS's, each with 8GB RAM, and both of them are performing poorly...

Yeah, 0.28 CPD is quite bad. Probably has something to do with the VPS configuration.
My dual core athlon at home is faster than that.

[paulthetafy]

I'm having a strange issue with HP9 on an 16 core xeon.  It's a dedicated server split into two 8-thread VPS's, each with 8GB RAM, and both of them are performing poorly...

Yeah, 0.28 CPD is quite bad. Probably has something to do with the VPS configuration.
My dual core athlon at home is faster than that.

Yep I've canned the VPS and am asking for a refund. 

[Aggrophobia]

I've got great stats but no coins for over 2 days 

8 core : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 0 @ 2.00GHz

Code:

Stats: {
    "blocks" : 99324,
    "chainspermin" : 11,
    "chainsperday" : 0.93862504,
    "currentblocksize" : 1000,
    "currentblocktx" : 0,
    "difficulty" : 9.38212335,
    "errors" : "",
    "generate" : true,
    "genproclimit" : -1,
    "roundsievepercentage" : 70,
    "primespersec" : 1915,
    "pooledtx" : 0,
    "sievepercentage" : 10,
    "sievesize" : 1000000,
    "testnet" : false
}

Another identical one:

8 core : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 0 @ 2.00GHz

Code:

Stats: {
    "blocks" : 99324,
    "chainspermin" : 12,
    "chainsperday" : 0.93196965,
    "currentblocksize" : 1000,
    "currentblocktx" : 0,
    "difficulty" : 9.38212335,
    "errors" : "",
    "generate" : true,
    "genproclimit" : -1,
    "roundsievepercentage" : 70,
    "primespersec" : 1901,
    "pooledtx" : 0,
    "sievepercentage" : 10,
    "sievesize" : 1000000,
    "testnet" : false
}

No blocks for 2 days running hp9.

Is there anything wrong with the above stats for this kit?

nothing wrong there, just bad luck, i've also some xeons,
some are running on meth solving 4 blocks a day ,
some are solving that their computation was useless for 48 hours

[FoldingTime]

I'm having a strange issue with HP9 on an 16 core xeon.  It's a dedicated server split into two 8-thread VPS's, each with 8GB RAM, and both of them are performing poorly...

"blocks" : 99198,
    "chainspermin" : 2,
    "chainsperday" : 0.28352104,
    "currentblocksize" : 1000,
    "currentblocktx" : 0,
    "difficulty" : 9.37849414,
    "errors" : "",
    "generate" : true,
    "genproclimit" : -1,
    "roundsievepercentage" : 70,
    "primespersec" : 647,
    "pooledtx" : 0,
    "sievepercentage" : 6,
    "sievesize" : 1000000,
    "testnet" : false

I can't get the PPS or CPM/CPD values up to anything like a decent number.  I have other similar VPS's with different providers running at 10 times these numbers.  Any ideas?

Set sievepercentage at 10.

That gives me a slight reduction in both PPS and CPD, hence why it was at 6.  It's something more fundamental than that I feel.

EDIT: CPU usage is at 800% showing all 8 cores are maxed out

Can you just wipe the system, install an OS and mine without the VPS? Or are those VPS used for something else normally

Unfortunately not, limitation of the provider as it's a dedicated cloud, i.e I have a dedicated box but have to create VPS's within it.

What OS are you running?

If linux have you tried compiling everything from source.

Some VMs have client side software to install. e.g. vmtools etc. Does yours require any?

[paulthetafy]

I'm having a strange issue with HP9 on an 16 core xeon.  It's a dedicated server split into two 8-thread VPS's, each with 8GB RAM, and both of them are performing poorly...

"blocks" : 99198,
    "chainspermin" : 2,
    "chainsperday" : 0.28352104,
    "currentblocksize" : 1000,
    "currentblocktx" : 0,
    "difficulty" : 9.37849414,
    "errors" : "",
    "generate" : true,
    "genproclimit" : -1,
    "roundsievepercentage" : 70,
    "primespersec" : 647,
    "pooledtx" : 0,
    "sievepercentage" : 6,
    "sievesize" : 1000000,
    "testnet" : false

I can't get the PPS or CPM/CPD values up to anything like a decent number.  I have other similar VPS's with different providers running at 10 times these numbers.  Any ideas?

Set sievepercentage at 10.

That gives me a slight reduction in both PPS and CPD, hence why it was at 6.  It's something more fundamental than that I feel.

EDIT: CPU usage is at 800% showing all 8 cores are maxed out

Can you just wipe the system, install an OS and mine without the VPS? Or are those VPS used for something else normally

Unfortunately not, limitation of the provider as it's a dedicated cloud, i.e I have a dedicated box but have to create VPS's within it.

What OS are you running?

If linux have you tried compiling everything from source.

Some VMs have client side software to install. e.g. vmtools etc. Does yours require any?

Ubuntu 12, everything compiled from source, same as my other VPS's and personal machines.  Seems this one just doesn't want to play.  I might try a different version of linux later if I have time, but doubt it will yield anything.  Incidentally I tried sunny's version too, as well as the pool miner, and had the same low performance on each.

[paulthetafy]

How do you change the number of cores and threads?

if using the daemon then ./primecoind setgenerate true X (where X is the number of threads)
if using the QT client, go into the debug console and type setgenerate true X

[FoldingTime]

Ubuntu 12, everything compiled from source, same as my other VPS's and personal machines.  Seems this one just doesn't want to play.  I might try a different version of linux later if I have time, but doubt it will yield anything.  Incidentally I tried sunny's version too, as well as the pool miner, and had the same low performance on each.

Maybe they did not give you a dedicated server 

[SlyWax]

Every time hp9 crash it produce this same error :

checkqueue.h:171: CCheckQueueControl<T>::CCheckQueueControl(CCheckQueue<T>*) [with T = CScriptCheck]: Assertion `pqueue->nTotal == pqueue->nIdle' failed.

Just in case you didn't know already !

[paulthetafy]

Ubuntu 12, everything compiled from source, same as my other VPS's and personal machines.  Seems this one just doesn't want to play.  I might try a different version of linux later if I have time, but doubt it will yield anything.  Incidentally I tried sunny's version too, as well as the pool miner, and had the same low performance on each.

Maybe they did not give you a dedicated server 

That's the conclusion I have come to as well.  No big deal, I was just trying them out.

[reb0rn21]

I am also concluding that HP9 client is a lot faster, still getting a block or even two with haswell beast!