BitShares PTS (formerly ProtoShares) Mandatory Upgrade & Snapshot Announcement

[cryptrol]

Anybody know how to run more than one instance in Linux(without GUI)?

Thanks in advance.

6-core here, how do I run more than one process in Win7?

Thank you

1. protoshares-qt -port=25550 -datadir=<dir1>
2. protoshares-qt -port=25551 -datadir=<dir2>

Replace dir1 and dir2 with the respective data directories.
Then, in each go to debug console and do "setgenerate true 3". Set the affinity of first process to the first 3 cores and the second process to next 3 cores.

Just run the

Code:

setgenerate true [Number of processess]

No need for more than one instance.

[Sy]

Anybody know how to run more than one instance in Linux(without GUI)?

Thanks in advance.

6-core here, how do I run more than one process in Win7?

Thank you

1. protoshares-qt -port=25550 -datadir=<dir1>
2. protoshares-qt -port=25551 -datadir=<dir2>

Replace dir1 and dir2 with the respective data directories.
Then, in each go to debug console and do "setgenerate true 3". Set the affinity of first process to the first 3 cores and the second process to next 3 cores.

Just run the

Code:

setgenerate true [Number of processess]

No need for more than one instance.

32 Bit Windows binary is limited to 3.2 gb ram -> max 3 threads.

[cryptrol]

Anybody know how to run more than one instance in Linux(without GUI)?

32 Bit Windows binary is limited to 3.2 gb ram -> max 3 threads.

[zvs]

Here's another

2013-11-06 08:37:01 received block 000a1f6692b2a78e89ab3e82bd04fead89e240774ef9203e9c293825133f485f
2013-11-06 08:37:32 received block 0008685bf909d5316ac79e1b2f0f40f09af0c45219cd2f1776979acf8af8d30a


2013-11-06 08:37:37 CreateNewBlock(): total size 1225
2013-11-06 08:37:37 Running ProtoSharesMiner with 2 transactions in block (421 bytes)
2013-11-06 08:37:37 testHash 000f8536079f4f9368e295a1a4552fb27687ddd872444b07467dc86ca724d9b2
2013-11-06 08:37:37 Hash Target 000fff0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
2013-11-06 08:37:37 Found Hash 000f8536079f4f9368e295a1a4552fb27687ddd872444b07467dc86ca724d9b2
2013-11-06 08:37:37 hash 000f8536079f4f9368e295a1a4552fb27687ddd872444b07467dc86ca724d9b2
2013-11-06 08:37:37 hash2 000f8536079f4f9368e295a1a4552fb27687ddd872444b07467dc86ca724d9b2
2013-11-06 08:37:37 ProtoSharesMiner:
2013-11-06 08:37:37 proof-of-work found
  hash: 000f8536079f4f9368e295a1a4552fb27687ddd872444b07467dc86ca724d9b2
target: 000fff0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
2013-11-06 08:37:37 CBlock(hash=000f8536079f4f9368e295a1a4552fb27687ddd872444b07467dc86ca724d9b2, ver=2, hashPrevBlock=000a1f6692b2a78e89ab3e82bd04fead89e240774ef9203e9c293825133f485f, hashMerkleRoot=fc1c23eed0a5f6c77b1a2d34247c6dc0f34de96c4ae416f8227d1e33e93440b5, nTime=1383727041, nBits=20000fff, nNonce=2, vtx=1, birthdayA=55398462, birthdayB=64046174)
2013-11-06 08:37:37   CTransaction(hash=fc1c23eed0a5f6c77b1a2d34247c6dc0f34de96c4ae416f8227d1e33e93440b5, ver=1, vin.size=1, vout.size=1, nLockTime=0)
    CTxIn(COutPoint(0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000, 4294967295), coinbase 0240090102062f503253482f)
    CTxOut(nValue=47.50000000, scriptPubKey=029f877979dca68b5ee46e6f103ea8)
  vMerkleTree: fc1c23eed0a5f6c77b1a2d34247c6dc0f34de96c4ae416f8227d1e33e93440b5
2013-11-06 08:37:37 generated 47.50
2013-11-06 08:37:37 ERROR: ProtoSharesMiner : generated block is stale

[zvs]

I'm getting about 100 hashes per minute in total between all my machines, but so far they've only generated 4 stales.

Is the crap in the git messed up? 

[FreeTrade]

There's a lot of orphans right now because the difficultly is still low and we're getting new blocks every 30 seconds. This was unexpected and should be considered atypical conditions. This will become much less of an issue after difficulty adjustment at block 4032.

[zvs]

There's a lot of orphans right now because the difficultly is still low and we're getting new blocks every 30 seconds. This was unexpected and should be considered atypical conditions. This will become much less of an issue after difficulty adjustment at block 4032.

They aren't even orphans though, they're coming up stale.  I'm receiving the blocks, but it's working on the block prior

The latest one happened with 3 cores being used out of 8 on a xeon 1270v3

[FreeTrade]

They aren't even orphans though, they're coming up stale.  I'm receiving the blocks, but it's working on the block prior

The latest one happened with 3 cores being used out of 8 on a xeon 1270v3

It's a similar issue - the code only checks for new transactions at the start of the hash, and doesn't interrupt ongoing hashes when new blocks come in. The code is not optimized and not designed to gracefully deal with these conditions.

[zvs]

They aren't even orphans though, they're coming up stale.  I'm receiving the blocks, but it's working on the block prior

The latest one happened with 3 cores being used out of 8 on a xeon 1270v3

It's a similar issue - the code only checks for new transactions at the start of the hash, and doesn't interrupt ongoing hashes when new blocks come in. The code is not optimized and not designed to gracefully deal with these conditions.

Code:

2013-11-06 08:37:32 received block 0008685bf909d5316ac79e1b2f0f40f09af0c45219cd2f1776979acf8af8d30a
2013-11-06 08:37:32 Committing 2 changed transactions to coin database...
2013-11-06 08:37:32 SetBestChain: new best=0008685bf909d5316ac79e1b2f0f40f09af0c45219cd2f1776979acf8af8d30a  height=2368  log2_work=23.210415  tx=2670  date=2013-11-06 08:37:06 progress=0.000053
2013-11-06 08:37:32 ProcessBlock: ACCEPTED
2013-11-06 08:37:32 received getdata for: block 0008685bf909d5316ac79e1b2f0f40f09af0c45219cd2f1776979acf8af8d30a limit 500
2013-11-06 08:37:32 received getdata for: block 0008685bf909d5316ac79e1b2f0f40f09af0c45219cd2f1776979acf8af8d30a limit 500
2013-11-06 08:37:32 received getdata for: block 0008685bf909d5316ac79e1b2f0f40f09af0c45219cd2f1776979acf8af8d30a limit 500
2013-11-06 08:37:32 received getdata for: block 0008685bf909d5316ac79e1b2f0f40f09af0c45219cd2f1776979acf8af8d30a limit 500
2013-11-06 08:37:32 received getdata for: block 0008685bf909d5316ac79e1b2f0f40f09af0c45219cd2f1776979acf8af8d30a limit 500
2013-11-06 08:37:32 received getdata for: block 0008685bf909d5316ac79e1b2f0f40f09af0c45219cd2f1776979acf8af8d30a limit 500
2013-11-06 08:37:32 received getdata for: block 0008685bf909d5316ac79e1b2f0f40f09af0c45219cd2f1776979acf8af8d30a limit 500
2013-11-06 08:37:32 received getdata for: block 0008685bf909d5316ac79e1b2f0f40f09af0c45219cd2f1776979acf8af8d30a limit 500
2013-11-06 08:37:32 received getdata for: block 0008685bf909d5316ac79e1b2f0f40f09af0c45219cd2f1776979acf8af8d30a limit 500
2013-11-06 08:37:32 received getdata for: block 0008685bf909d5316ac79e1b2f0f40f09af0c45219cd2f1776979acf8af8d30a limit 500
2013-11-06 08:37:32 received getdata for: block 0008685bf909d5316ac79e1b2f0f40f09af0c45219cd2f1776979acf8af8d30a limit 500
2013-11-06 08:37:32 received getdata for: block 0008685bf909d5316ac79e1b2f0f40f09af0c45219cd2f1776979acf8af8d30a limit 500
2013-11-06 08:37:32 received getdata for: block 0008685bf909d5316ac79e1b2f0f40f09af0c45219cd2f1776979acf8af8d30a limit 500
2013-11-06 08:37:32 received getdata for: block 0008685bf909d5316ac79e1b2f0f40f09af0c45219cd2f1776979acf8af8d30a limit 500
2013-11-06 08:37:32 received getdata for: block 0008685bf909d5316ac79e1b2f0f40f09af0c45219cd2f1776979acf8af8d30a limit 500
2013-11-06 08:37:32 received getdata for: block 0008685bf909d5316ac79e1b2f0f40f09af0c45219cd2f1776979acf8af8d30a limit 500
2013-11-06 08:37:32 received getdata for: block 0008685bf909d5316ac79e1b2f0f40f09af0c45219cd2f1776979acf8af8d30a limit 500
2013-11-06 08:37:32 received getdata for: block 0008685bf909d5316ac79e1b2f0f40f09af0c45219cd2f1776979acf8af8d30a limit 500
2013-11-06 08:37:32 received getdata for: block 0008685bf909d5316ac79e1b2f0f40f09af0c45219cd2f1776979acf8af8d30a limit 500
2013-11-06 08:37:32 received getdata for: block 0008685bf909d5316ac79e1b2f0f40f09af0c45219cd2f1776979acf8af8d30a limit 500
2013-11-06 08:37:32 received getdata for: block 0008685bf909d5316ac79e1b2f0f40f09af0c45219cd2f1776979acf8af8d30a limit 500
2013-11-06 08:37:32 received getdata for: block 0008685bf909d5316ac79e1b2f0f40f09af0c45219cd2f1776979acf8af8d30a limit 500
2013-11-06 08:37:32 received getdata for: block 0008685bf909d5316ac79e1b2f0f40f09af0c45219cd2f1776979acf8af8d30a limit 500
2013-11-06 08:37:32 received getdata for: block 0008685bf909d5316ac79e1b2f0f40f09af0c45219cd2f1776979acf8af8d30a limit 500
2013-11-06 08:37:32 received getdata for: block 0008685bf909d5316ac79e1b2f0f40f09af0c45219cd2f1776979acf8af8d30a limit 500
2013-11-06 08:37:32 received getdata for: block 0008685bf909d5316ac79e1b2f0f40f09af0c45219cd2f1776979acf8af8d30a limit 500
2013-11-06 08:37:32 received getdata for: block 0008685bf909d5316ac79e1b2f0f40f09af0c45219cd2f1776979acf8af8d30a limit 500
2013-11-06 08:37:33 received getdata for: block 0008685bf909d5316ac79e1b2f0f40f09af0c45219cd2f1776979acf8af8d30a limit 500
2013-11-06 08:37:33 received getdata for: block 0008685bf909d5316ac79e1b2f0f40f09af0c45219cd2f1776979acf8af8d30a limit 500
2013-11-06 08:37:33 received getdata for: block 0008685bf909d5316ac79e1b2f0f40f09af0c45219cd2f1776979acf8af8d30a limit 500
2013-11-06 08:37:33 received getdata for: block 0008685bf909d5316ac79e1b2f0f40f09af0c45219cd2f1776979acf8af8d30a limit 500
2013-11-06 08:37:33 received getdata for: block 0008685bf909d5316ac79e1b2f0f40f09af0c45219cd2f1776979acf8af8d30a limit 500
2013-11-06 08:37:33 received getdata for: block 0008685bf909d5316ac79e1b2f0f40f09af0c45219cd2f1776979acf8af8d30a limit 500
2013-11-06 08:37:33 received getdata for: block 0008685bf909d5316ac79e1b2f0f40f09af0c45219cd2f1776979acf8af8d30a limit 500
2013-11-06 08:37:33 received getdata for: block 0008685bf909d5316ac79e1b2f0f40f09af0c45219cd2f1776979acf8af8d30a limit 500
2013-11-06 08:37:34 received getdata for: block 0008685bf909d5316ac79e1b2f0f40f09af0c45219cd2f1776979acf8af8d30a limit 500
2013-11-06 08:37:37 testHash 80a9a8e430a940eab285ee66cf7e358cb39bf822ae03ab316cb2bb743f7dc411
2013-11-06 08:37:37 Hash Target 000fff0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
2013-11-06 08:37:37 CreateNewBlock(): total size 1225
2013-11-06 08:37:37 Running ProtoSharesMiner with 2 transactions in block (421 bytes)
2013-11-06 08:37:37 testHash 000f8536079f4f9368e295a1a4552fb27687ddd872444b07467dc86ca724d9b2
2013-11-06 08:37:37 Hash Target 000fff0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
2013-11-06 08:37:37 Found Hash 000f8536079f4f9368e295a1a4552fb27687ddd872444b07467dc86ca724d9b2
2013-11-06 08:37:37 hash 000f8536079f4f9368e295a1a4552fb27687ddd872444b07467dc86ca724d9b2
2013-11-06 08:37:37 hash2 000f8536079f4f9368e295a1a4552fb27687ddd872444b07467dc86ca724d9b2
2013-11-06 08:37:37 ProtoSharesMiner:
2013-11-06 08:37:37 proof-of-work found
2013-11-06 08:37:37 CBlock(hash=000f8536079f4f9368e295a1a4552fb27687ddd872444b07467dc86ca724d9b2, ver=2, hashPrevBlock=000a1f6692b2a78e89ab3e82bd04fead89e240774ef9203e9c293825133f485f, hashMerkleRoot=fc1c23eed0a5f6c77b1a2d34247c6dc0f34de96c4ae416f8227d1e33e93440b5, nTime=1383727041, nBits=20000fff, nNonce=2, vtx=1, birthdayA=55398462, birthdayB=64046174)
2013-11-06 08:37:37   CTransaction(hash=fc1c23eed0a5f6c77b1a2d34247c6dc0f34de96c4ae416f8227d1e33e93440b5, ver=1, vin.size=1, vout.size=1, nLockTime=0)
2013-11-06 08:37:37 generated 47.50
2013-11-06 08:37:37 ERROR: ProtoSharesMiner : generated block is stale

...  but then wouldn't that be a new hash?

ed:  Oh, I see.  There's one going for each thread.  I guess that means it's probably better to disable hyperthreading

[FreeTrade]

...  but then wouldn't that be a new hash?

I think this is probably what happened ->

2013-11-06 08:37:30 (Approximate start time of hash)
2013-11-06 08:37:32 received block 0008685bf909d5316ac79e1b2f0f40f09af0c45219cd2f1776979acf8af8d30a
2013-11-06 08:37:37 CreateNewBlock(): total size 1225 (probably from a different thread)
2013-11-06 08:37:37 Found Hash 000f8536079f4f9368e295a1a4552fb27687ddd872444b07467dc86ca724d9b2

[zvs]

...  but then wouldn't that be a new hash?

I think this is probably what happened ->

2013-11-06 08:37:30 (Approximate start time of hash)
2013-11-06 08:37:32 received block 0008685bf909d5316ac79e1b2f0f40f09af0c45219cd2f1776979acf8af8d30a
2013-11-06 08:37:37 CreateNewBlock(): total size 1225 (probably from a different thread)
2013-11-06 08:37:37 Found Hash 000f8536079f4f9368e295a1a4552fb27687ddd872444b07467dc86ca724d9b2

Yeah, I had forgotten about that.  I've disabled hyperthreading on the machines I could & the rest are just running 4 now.  Don't get a huge performance difference from the hyperthreaded *cores anyway

[cryptrol]

Can anyone that tested the AWS cluster instance with 32 cores and 60G RAM care to share the results ?
I tested them and got some bad results. With 32 threads memory load is around 24G , but it seems the memory is slow as hell. I couldn't get any instance to hash.

[sumantso]

Mined 2 blocks, and the price is around 0.01 BTC/ PTC - which means I have a BTC!! woot

[digitalindustry]

You may have noticed the block difficulty hasn't adjusted as expected at block 2016. I made a mistake with the parameters, and the block difficultly adjustment is set to 2 weeks rather than 1. I've had a quick discussion with ByteMaster, and we've decided the course of action is to leave difficultly adjustment at 2 weeks for now, and consider releasing a patch later to bring the difficulty adjustment back down to 1 week.

What this means is a further 24 hours or so of low-difficulty mining before the difficultly adjusts at block 4032.

I really don't see an issue , Re adjustment. It's untested , so it won't be exposed to anything like possible swings that an sCrypt or SHA256 would.

There is really no problem.

[Buratino]

Mined 2 blocks, and the price is around 0.01 BTC/ PTC - which means I have a BTC!! woot

Firstly try to sell them  .
Everybody wants to sell PTS, but nobody wants to buy. It seems that price 0.01 BTC per PTS is overvalued.

[zvs]

I'm done after half a dozen or so stales and 2 orphans

good luck =p

[digitalindustry]

Definitely needs some sort of pool now that team digitalOcean has joined hard.

otherwise this could effect dispersion, and thus in a slight way the principals of the new algorithm.

definitely not a game changer , but a pool wouldn't hurt at this stage.   

[ripper234]

I ran the client like 15 minutes ago, and it still can't connect to the network.
I'm working on Windows 7, enabled all the firewall exceptions it asked me to, and have never had similar problems with bitcoin-qt / litecoin-qt etc.

I'm just seeing zero peers.

[skaffen]

Mined 2 blocks, and the price is around 0.01 BTC/ PTC - which means I have a BTC!! woot

Firstly try to sell them  .
Everybody wants to sell PTS, but nobody wants to buy. It seems that price 0.01 BTC per PTS is overvalued.

Indeed, where did you pluck this price from?

[markm]

The price maybe dates back to before the feeding frenzy of the usual pump and dump folks got underway with all the rented by the hour servers and such, likely most miners over the next 20 hours or whatever will be the usual folk who are only here for a quick dump...

-MarkM-