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[bahamapascal]

So, wht do you guys think, will it get easyer (due to not geting stalles) after the retarget or harder to mine ?
Alrady now I am mining 37 hours with 17 hpm and found only one block, hope it will get easyer

[cryptrol]

So, wht do you guys think, will it get easyer (due to not geting stalles) after the retarget or harder to mine ?
Alrady now I am mining 37 hours with 17 hpm and found only one block, hope it will get easyer

Since difficulty will be higher it will be harder.
You will not even get stales.

[billotronic]

So, wht do you guys think, will it get easyer (due to not geting stalles) after the retarget or harder to mine ?
Alrady now I am mining 37 hours with 17 hpm and found only one block, hope it will get easyer

My eMu would be on harder. If do droplets cant hash till the retarget, whats gonna happen when they all come online?

also, if you are still looking to buy some pm me for I have a few.

[markm]

I have three dedicated servers out at third party datacentres on good bandwidth with eight cores each, or maybe four real cores appearing as two each; each such box gets two or more times as many hashes per timespan as any of my machines here at home on my much less bandwidth; home is Halifax NS Canada, third party machines are around Germany or Denmark type of region. (Forta Trust dedicated servers.)

Not one of the third party machines has a block, I have been running them since an hour or two after mining started. Getting my home machines running took a little longer but some of them found blocks almost as soon as I got them running, one of them has found three blocks and one orphan block and two more blocks.

So either variance is skewing this or merely having high hashing power on good bandwidth isn't all it takes to get a block?

The machines at home are mostly core 2 duo type of things, all only have two cores. (Old Dell  755's for example with 8 or 4 gigs of RAM). A couple have 16 gigs of RAM. The third party machines might only have four real cores with two simulated cores/threads/whatever each. They are using setgenerate true 7 so as to leave a thread/core for what the boxes normally are used for. Two of them have 16 gigs of RAM one has 24. Could their hyperthreads or whatever it is they have two of per core be interfering with each other or something ending up making the machines unable to find any blocks at all or something?

-MarkM-

[bahamapascal]

Anyone on here using setgenerate 4 and found blocks? I am starting to wonder if setgenerate 4 cant find any blocks, which might be the reason I only found one block so far (and its good possibel I had setgenerate 3 when I found it).

[refer_2_me]

My system has a lot of memory (48GB), is there modifications to the code that I could make to use more memory that will increase my block rate? A quick glance at the code indicates that maybe the following variables are important. But unfortunatly there are no code comments, so I can't tell what they are for.

Code:

	#define MAX_MOMENTUM_NONCE  (1<<26)
	#define SEARCH_SPACE_BITS 50
	#define BIRTHDAYS_PER_HASH 8

Bump. Any one have an idea for this?

TIA

[wildraven]

Anyone on here using setgenerate 4 and found blocks? I am starting to wonder if setgenerate 4 cant find any blocks, which might be the reason I only found one block so far (and its good possibel I had setgenerate 3 when I found it).

setgenerate 4 works for me

[BitcoinForumator]

What could be wrong? First time i started mining (Mine Process 1) it worked, then i closed the client. Now everytime I start it does nothing (even after 5 minutes, and nada in the Task Manager).

[mr.n00blar]

I haven't been able to connect to any nodes. Added the nodes manually... deadcoin?

[altoz]

new difficulty is roughly 4x the old difficulty. Hopefully less stales, but also much harder to find a block.

[testz]

Old was 0,00000095 new is 0,00000382 

[atavacron]

Old was 0,00000095 new is 0,00000382 

Boom!!!   

[alexxy]

Old was 0,00000095 new is 0,00000382 

So there will be less orphans and stales

[hiddenvalleyranch]

Yeah I'm having trouble finding connections on my new instance too.

[bahamapascal]

Anyone on here using setgenerate 4 and found blocks? I am starting to wonder if setgenerate 4 cant find any blocks, which might be the reason I only found one block so far (and its good possibel I had setgenerate 3 when I found it).

setgenerate 4 works for me

Hmm, ok...and you have alrady found blocks with it?

[testz]

Yeah I'm having trouble finding connections on my new instance too.

Add node https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=325261.msg3486246#msg3486246

[hiddenvalleyranch]

Yeah I'm having trouble finding connections on my new instance too.

Add node https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=325261.msg3486246#msg3486246

Already tried that

[wildraven]

Anyone on here using setgenerate 4 and found blocks? I am starting to wonder if setgenerate 4 cant find any blocks, which might be the reason I only found one block so far (and its good possibel I had setgenerate 3 when I found it).

setgenerate 4 works for me

Hmm, ok...and you have alrady found blocks with it?

yes I have, but from time to time it crashes and I have to restart it but it works...

[testz]

Yeah I'm having trouble finding connections on my new instance too.

Add node https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=325261.msg3486246#msg3486246

Already tried that

Just to test - run the client as: protoshares-qt.exe -connect=168.63.12.227

[bg002h]

Wow…much harder than that I thought it'd be! My 2009 mac laptop…no so much cutting' it!

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