[ANN][BURST] Burst | Efficient HDD Mining | New 1.2.3 Fork block 92000

[SpeedDemon13]

The java miner consumes the lowest electricity out of all of them, but has memory hogging/crash issues.

Java miner is a "RAM miner" whereas those new miner that promise low RAM usage is a "CPU miner". Running 100% CPU consume more electricity.

I am still using java miner because i have low end CPU on my rig and it perform badly on the new miner. Java finish reading plot and new miner still reading plot and take quite a while to finish reading the whole plot because CPU is the bottleneck. More CPU power faster reading. If u are running hundreds of TB, an i7 would probably be needed for new miner.

Anyway , i found a way to solve the RAM issue and my rigs has been running smoothly without any manual input from me for a week and counting. Its pretty much auto pilot right now using java miner and payout from pool is very stable because of zero downtime.

I'm running a Core i5(mining 14.5TB) and an old AMD Phenom II x4(mining 10.5TB), both run about 28%~40% usage on average. Just a little bit more power than the Java miner, I was running the script to do auto-restart with the java. Still the java miner would stop working at times and both setup have 8GB of RAM.

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[unsoindovo]

new thread opened at

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=814738.msg9114966#msg9114966

hope some good news arrive soon!!!

[redsn0w]

new thread opened at

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=814738.msg9114966#msg9114966

hope some good news arrive soon!!!

Great news , thanks  @unso !

[tex81]

Yellow: it seems that reading plots is multithreaded even on one drive
Red: I have no ideas  

[majere]

The java miner reads sequentially. Uray's miner uses more threads to read files. If you have a single file it will have only 1 thread. But if you have 2, it will create a second thread for that file.

If it's true, the performance will be very bad unless there's a single big file on each disk (I haven't used Uray's miner).

dcct's miner creates one thread per directory. If you create 1 directory per 1 hdd, they will be read in parallel without interfering with each other.

[Matt9301]

Yellow: it seems that reading plots is multithreaded even on one drive
Red: I have no ideas  

You have generated plots for two different accounts.. So I think the power is half for each account..
For the Red, I notified this, some post before this, but no replies..

[tex81]

[crowetic]

Looks like the next rise may be coming - up to 156 on c-cex now with huge support on Bittrex. Big holders no longer content to sell for these prices and therefore price has to go up.

Buy, mine and hold - you will not regret it.

So far I don't, bought @140, not a lot, but enough.

Smart man. We who buy, mine and hold will be the whales come December when everyone starts buying up coins left right and center.

500,000 or 1 Million Burst may not be much now - but wait till the coin passes 1000 Sat, and then 2000, then 3000 - then you will know what it feels like to be the one with the power to move markets as opposed to trying to ride the waves of others

My next payday I will buy another BTC (hopefully its still low) and that will go straight into bolstering the buy walls. I suggest others do the same. Very unlikely for anyone to dump more that 50K at these prices so its about as safe as buy walls can get and worst comes to worst you end up with a big bag of BURST at a rock bottom price.

I plan on spending a few thousand dollars on burst soon. Just waiting for today to play out.

[crowetic]

Speaking of different miners, I am having a hard time finding instructions for the miner that is just "miner.exe" I don't know for sure, but I think that's blago's miner. Now, I can't find the page with the information on how to setup the miner's config. Can someone kindly point me to the right place? Thanks!

[Strainer]

Speaking of different miners, I am having a hard time finding instructions for the miner that is just "miner.exe" I don't know for sure, but I think that's blago's miner. Now, I can't find the page with the information on how to setup the miner's config. Can someone kindly point me to the right place? Thanks!

I would also like to test blago's miner, as I had problems with Uray's miner on windows not reading the files fast enough for certain blocks and have heard blago's should perform the best, so I'm curious to try it out.

[jumbo987]

Guys ... i have a little big problem .
When i open wallet there aren t any transactions which i get payed from pool.
I can see them in blok explorer on internet. But no in wallet (i tried to redownload whole chain , even tried from another computer.).
Does anybody has same problem ? What should i do ?

Are you sure you typed the passphrase correctly?

i am sure ... i can see previous transactions even when i send from my another wallet it shows up.But missing everything from pool(i tried changed pool too ),but no change 

What version is your wallet?

OK ... so i can t see even when i send from another wallet.
1.1.3 on first computer , 1.1.1 on second one - it looks like it stop to synchronize on block 19600.
just a question : Is some folder which is created with  wallet (i mean something in appData,or you know what i mean?).How to correctly reset wallet , to not let some cache files from old one ?

Inside the Burst folder is "burst_db"
Thats the blockchain
Maybe better if you re-download and let it sync from scratch

Hmm i did. Sync from scratch ... but it always  stuck at 19600 block ....can t be problem in java or something with memory ?

And you say same thing happened on the other computer as well?

Yop same thing on the other computer , both are windows 64bit,win 7 and 8 on other . I tried it on macbook ,where everything works right. It s strange .... :/

[RonBurgundy]

Hey guys,

  I am stuck on block 19602 in my wallet. I have the new wallet and even re downloaded the blockchain.

Any suggestions?

Has anyone solved this?

[Blago]

Speaking of different miners, I am having a hard time finding instructions for the miner that is just "miner.exe" I don't know for sure, but I think that's blago's miner. Now, I can't find the page with the information on how to setup the miner's config. Can someone kindly point me to the right place? Thanks!

I would also like to test blago's miner, as I had problems with Uray's miner on windows not reading the files fast enough for certain blocks and have heard blago's should perform the best, so I'm curious to try it out.

miner-burst

stable version. (tested Win7 x64)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/y6ar5kks2vgarrd/miner-burst-1.141006.zip?dl=0

* fixed crashes
+ add new bugs  

sdl - sent deadlines
rdl - recieve confirms deadlines
ss - sent getMiningInfo to server
rs - recieved getMiningInfo from server
(0) - errors

usage:

Code:

miner.exe 

Code:

miner.exe -config your_conf_file_name

Code:

miner.exe -config c:\bla-bla\your_conf_file_name

miner.conf:
   "Mode" : "pool" or "solo"
   "Server" : address or IP server's
   "Paths":["C:\\pocminer_v1-burst\\plots","D:\\pocminer_v1-burst\\plots","E:\\pocminer_v1-burst\\plots","G:\\pocminer_v1-burst\\plots","H:\\pocminer_v1-burst\\plots","F:\\plots"],
   "CacheSize" : 100000  (how many nonces calculate)
   "ShowMsg" : false  (show server's messages)
   "ShowUpdates" : false (show server's update-messages)
   "UseSorting" : true (sorting deadlines before sending)
   "SendInterval": 300 (in ms, time interval for sending)
   "UpdateInterval": 3000 (in ms, time interval for updating)

Notes:
if, after processing all the files you do not see 100% - you have a problem with files.
In the absence of parameters used default values.
Tested at Uray's pools & solo.
Don't set SendInterval & UpdateInterval too low
In "pool" mode miner have not deadlines limit, if server not support targetDedline
In "solo" mode deadlines  <= 10 days (864000s)

src https://github.com/Blagodarenko/miner-burst

[jumbo987]

Hey guys,

  I am stuck on block 19602 in my wallet. I have the new wallet and even re downloaded the blockchain.

Any suggestions?

Has anyone solved this?

Man i am just solving it , i have same problem .

[RonBurgundy]

Hey guys,

  I am stuck on block 19602 in my wallet. I have the new wallet and even re downloaded the blockchain.

Any suggestions?

Has anyone solved this?

Man i am just solving it , i have same problem .

Its weird. I tried on two different servers. Deleted the entire DB folder and cleared the browser cache. Still stuck

[majere]

Can you try my updated version of dcct ploter, and give results?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=731923.msg9087973#msg9087973

Mirkic7, thanks for this great update! Speed increase on Linux (i7 920/12 gb mem) using SSE: 2700 to 4156.

To run it on MacOS I merged your changes to mjminer (my MacOS/Linux fork of dcct's tools).
It crashed initially due to very low stack size (8 kb, 64 kb hard limit) so I had to tweak the code a bit, but finally managed to run it.
 
I have no AVX2 to test on, but with SSE4 the speed improved from 4205 (no SSE4/AVX2) to 9105 (SSE4) on i7 2600k.

Also tried playing with compiler's optimization options, but somehow -O3 gives worse results.

Updated version of mjminer uploaded to github:
https://github.com/r-majere/mjminer
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=731923.msg9107895#msg9107895

[jumbo987]

Hey guys,

  I am stuck on block 19602 in my wallet. I have the new wallet and even re downloaded the blockchain.

Any suggestions?

Has anyone solved this?

Man i am just solving it , i have same problem .

Its weird. I tried on two different servers. Deleted the entire DB folder and cleared the browser cache. Still stuck

Ok so i don t know if this help to you . But what i done is : Uninstall java and try to reinstall. Use 32.bit java even though you have 64bit windows. Now it s working for me and sync wallet well.
Wish you good luck

[RonBurgundy]

Hey guys,

  I am stuck on block 19602 in my wallet. I have the new wallet and even re downloaded the blockchain.

Any suggestions?

Has anyone solved this?

Man i am just solving it , i have same problem .

Its weird. I tried on two different servers. Deleted the entire DB folder and cleared the browser cache. Still stuck

Ok so i don t know if this help to you . But what i done is : Uninstall java and try to reinstall. Use 32.bit java even though you have 64bit windows. Now it s working for me and sync wallet well.
Wish you good luck

I'm removing and re-installing java and re-downloading the blockchain now. Hopefully this works.

[fivebells]

What version of burst are you running?  I've seen the wallet get stuck like that when the blockchain passes some protocol-change milestone, like the recent addition of escrow transactions.  The solution has been to upgrade my wallet.

[vipervince2002]

I have released an updated version of dcct's plot optimizer.

Vipervince2002's optimizer 1.1 (Based on dcct's optimizer):
http://bitshare.com/?f=nn32v9zs

This version adds the ability to use absolute paths in Windows and specify the output folder location if it needs to be on a separate drive.  If the output folder does not exist, then it will be created.  In dcct's optimizer, it checked for adequately available free space on Linux, and this version will do the same on Windows.  I tested it on both Windows 64-bit and Linux 64-bit, and the only issue that has occurred is a memory allocation error when specifying more than 2 GB of RAM (either inherent from 1.0 or hopefully happening to myself only).  I will try to fix this bug as soon as possible assuming it can be done.

See the included README for detailed instructions on compiling and running.

How to use (in brief):
Usage: optimize64 <Output directory or -f for same as Input> [-m MEMORY] <Plot file path>

Windows example .bat file:
optimizer64 C:\plots\optimized -m 2G E:\plots\<Name of plot file>

Example 2:
optimizer64 -f -m 2000m E:\plots\<Name of plot file>
"-f" uses the same folder as the original plot file as output (same as dcct's original optimizer)

Linux Example:
./optimizer /home/j6jq/Documents/optimized -m 2G /home/j6jq/<Name of plot file>

I appreciate any donations.