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

[ATCkit]

If you got Twitter or other social media stuff, can you spread this, please?

https://twitter.com/real_BURSTCOIN/status/563000791473340417

We want new users 

New user here. I have a few questions related to mining:

1. What's the best miner to use?

2. which pool is best?

3.  I have a couple AMD 280x GPUs available. Is that a better way to go than cpu mining?

Thx )

1. Depends on your system... Blago's for Windows and dcct's for Linux. Uray's works well in both platforms.

2. I don't know.

3. The GPU's are faster when plotting your HDD, but you wont need them when mining. See the guides linked in the BurstForum.com thread

[bensam123]

So fundamental question time. If I plot with a stagger size of 8192, the plotter will consume 8192 memory to make the plots, but the miner will not use 8192mb of memory to mine? Or do both machines consume 8192MB of memory, both during the mining process and the plotting process?

Before optimizing the plots my miner is using up to 8192MB of memory while reading through the non-optimized plots, is that normal?

I think I missed something somewhere. What determines how much memory Blagos miner uses and the GPU Plotter? I assumed the amount of memory the GPU plotter uses is based on your globalworksize x number of cards and the amount of memory the miner used is your stagger size (when not optimized).


Also it seems as though I'm making less after optimizing then I was before optimizing (by a large margin).

I assume ur mining on windows? Windows caches everything it reads from large files and holds onto it in a 'standby list' of memory. For some reason windows doesnt know how to let go of this properly when reading large files and u have to run something like ranaurufu's memory cleaner which will purge the standby memory list once it hits a certain limit, but it does this for all memory mapped files on the standby list, therefore there is a systemwide decrease in IO performance, which is fine if ur windows box is dedicated solely to HDD mining. So, ur best bet is to set up mining on a linux machine that doesnt do this insanely aggressive caching. But, for ur first question, yes more RAM while plotting is better.
When using runaurufu's memory cleaner, u will want to make sure to set ur plot sizes to 200GB or less, that way, they can be flushed more often and the peak size of memory used is less. Because, it seems that windows wont allow a file to be flushed while its actively still being read, so a 4TB plot, will consume a shit ton of memory till the miner has completed reading it.

Very good answer!

I tried to use the program to set a maximum cache - unsuccessfully, no positive changes were seen...
http://www.microimages.com/downloads/SetFileCacheSize.htm   (uses https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa965240(v=vs.85).aspx)

This program clears the cache
http://forum.sysinternals.com/rammap-empty-standby-list_topic27297.html

details can be read here
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2012/12/19/where-has-all-my-physical-ram-gone.aspx

Yeah, the filecache is different for some reason then the standby list that these enormous plot reads go into, so it has no bearing...
Here is the memory cleaner I use, it pretty much calls the 'flush standby list memory' functions of windows but on a running threshold basis, which is good for mining, since it needs threshold rather than a timed schedule...
http://runaurufu.com/file/download/7

Specify a number after the command & it will set that threshold, it defaults to 100MB. I find 1000MB works well.

Erm, these really don't answer my questions (although I appreciate answers none the less). I was curious if the plotter and the miner memory usage is determined by stagger size. Also if the GPU plotter 'globalworksize' has anything to do with it's system memory consumption while working.

I was also asking if anyone noticed a decrease in income after optimizing.

[mmmaybe]

If you got Twitter or other social media stuff, can you spread this, please?

https://twitter.com/real_BURSTCOIN/status/563000791473340417

We want new users 

Bumping to new page

[Mergesort]

{"errorCode":4,"errorDescription":"Incorrect \"recipient\""} I get this message trying to set a recipient for pool mining :/ How do i solo mine until i get this fixed?

[go6ooo1212]

So fundamental question time. If I plot with a stagger size of 8192, the plotter will consume 8192 memory to make the plots, but the miner will not use 8192mb of memory to mine? Or do both machines consume 8192MB of memory, both during the mining process and the plotting process?

Before optimizing the plots my miner is using up to 8192MB of memory while reading through the non-optimized plots, is that normal?

I think I missed something somewhere. What determines how much memory Blagos miner uses and the GPU Plotter? I assumed the amount of memory the GPU plotter uses is based on your globalworksize x number of cards and the amount of memory the miner used is your stagger size (when not optimized).


Also it seems as though I'm making less after optimizing then I was before optimizing (by a large margin).

I assume ur mining on windows? Windows caches everything it reads from large files and holds onto it in a 'standby list' of memory. For some reason windows doesnt know how to let go of this properly when reading large files and u have to run something like ranaurufu's memory cleaner which will purge the standby memory list once it hits a certain limit, but it does this for all memory mapped files on the standby list, therefore there is a systemwide decrease in IO performance, which is fine if ur windows box is dedicated solely to HDD mining. So, ur best bet is to set up mining on a linux machine that doesnt do this insanely aggressive caching. But, for ur first question, yes more RAM while plotting is better.
When using runaurufu's memory cleaner, u will want to make sure to set ur plot sizes to 200GB or less, that way, they can be flushed more often and the peak size of memory used is less. Because, it seems that windows wont allow a file to be flushed while its actively still being read, so a 4TB plot, will consume a shit ton of memory till the miner has completed reading it.

Very good answer!

I tried to use the program to set a maximum cache - unsuccessfully, no positive changes were seen...
http://www.microimages.com/downloads/SetFileCacheSize.htm   (uses https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa965240(v=vs.85).aspx)

This program clears the cache
http://forum.sysinternals.com/rammap-empty-standby-list_topic27297.html

details can be read here
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2012/12/19/where-has-all-my-physical-ram-gone.aspx

Yeah, the filecache is different for some reason then the standby list that these enormous plot reads go into, so it has no bearing...
Here is the memory cleaner I use, it pretty much calls the 'flush standby list memory' functions of windows but on a running threshold basis, which is good for mining, since it needs threshold rather than a timed schedule...
http://runaurufu.com/file/download/7

Specify a number after the command & it will set that threshold, it defaults to 100MB. I find 1000MB works well.
On another note, there is a version of Uray's miner that was modified by someone, its the r2 build and it completely disables read caching the plot files alltogether, what would be even more awesome is if someone could do this w/ blago's miner, since thats my miner of choice. I wish I could get someone to do the same build but w/ Uray's latest release. =/

How to specify the argument , I didn't find any help-commands
EDIT: Sorry , I figured it out , thanks. It's very nice tool...

[mmmaybe]

The giveaway goes as planned  Here is a quick update:

https://burstforum.com/index.php?threads/giveaway-by-burst.620/#post-4790

[mafostedu]

I am mining solo with one account & on dev 2 pool with another. For past couple of days, I have noticed that whenever there is a zero transaction block, my wallet doesn't update to that block immediately so I miss the submission of my shares while solo mining for next block in time. However for blocks with transactions it updates normally. Any suggestions ? I wonder if adding peers to the wallet can solve this issue & if yes, how to add peers ?

BTW, @ mmmaybe & other PR team members, we should publish our good articles related to burst on wikipedia.
Just like NXT has it's own article :: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nxt

[Sema89]

Can I copy the plot that I'm have been created in first HDD to my second HDD?
Or plots need to be a unique?

[Sema89]

Can I copy the plot that I'm have been created in first HDD to my second HDD?
Or plots need to be a unique?

unique

Thank you for reply.
And can I use my poloniex deposit adress like my wallet, with I can mine?

[bensam123]

So weird bit, today I just forged a block for 85,484, but only 7,794 is showing up in my wallet? It's also almost the same as the total amount I've already forged plus the amount in my wallet, what does this mean?

[lagur]

Is there a problem in burst.ga pool payouts?

It's like I only received less than half of total coins yesterday, compared to my previous 2 days.

Though I still see constant confirmed dl while mining.

Still observing before I shift to other pool.

[bensam123]

So weird bit, today I just forged a block for 85,484, but only 7,794 is showing up in my wallet? It's also almost the same as the total amount I've already forged plus the amount in my wallet, what does this mean?

Never mind, I figured it out. What determines how much you make off each block you find anyway? Is it all the same per block?

[mmmaybe]

Thank god. My heart sank in my chest I thought I was about to die a few min ago....thank you for the quick reply sir! love this coin...great! the chain still has a ways to go so I guess itll show soon enough.. Only thing I don't understand is how I am able to get access to my coins from any CPU in the world...where as My bitcoin wallet on my laptop is stuck on that laptop....doesn this make BURST less secure if it is stored on some kind of cloud who are we trusting with this info

burstcoin.info/download

A bit faster on downloading the blockchain

 
But not so decentralized - as someone I know said


Only download the blockchain from the site if you got problems  

[mmmaybe]

BURST was on the press yesterday, pretty interesting  
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/cryptocurrency-round-bitcoin-dead-again-microsoft-accepts-bitcoin-europe-1486243

Wow, didn't see it even when I got an alert about it - nice find, AizenSou!


 

[Elmit]

Does anybody know what this error at my pool means, and how to fix it?

node burst-pool.js
burst pool running on port 8124
websocket running on port 4443
http server running on port 8001
{ [Error: socket hang up] code: 'ECONNRESET' }
{ [Error: read ECONNRESET] code: 'ECONNRESET', errno: 'ECONNRESET', syscall: 'read' }

[xizmax]

So weird bit, today I just forged a block for 85,484, but only 7,794 is showing up in my wallet? It's also almost the same as the total amount I've already forged plus the amount in my wallet, what does this mean?

Never mind, I figured it out. What determines how much you make off each block you find anyway? Is it all the same per block?

You get the block reward, currently 7737 Burst, declining at 5% per month, plus any fees in the block (could be pretty much anything )

[unsoindovo]

If you got Twitter or other social media stuff, can you spread this, please?

https://twitter.com/real_BURSTCOIN/status/563000791473340417

We want new users 

New user here. I have a few questions related to mining:

1. What's the best miner to use?

2. which pool is best?

3.  I have a couple AMD 280x GPUs available. Is that a better way to go than cpu mining?

1. Depends on your system... Blago's for Windows and dcct's for Linux. Uray's works well in both platforms.

2. I don't know.

3. The GPU's are faster when plotting your HDD, but you wont need them when mining. See the guides linked in the BurstForum.com thread

this is a NEW coin!!!
remeber...
you are mining with HDD and no with CPU...
so, mining process need really low profile CPU...
you could mine burst with ATOM too.

but you need HIGH power to plot files who you will user for mining...
here you could use GPU...
but the latest CPU plotter with i7 cpu it is faster than a 280x..

[mmmaybe]

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BTW, @ mmmaybe & other PR team members, we should publish our good articles related to burst on wikipedia.
Just like NXT has it's own article :: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nxt

Is't everyone able to edit wiki? We in the team are storta busy 

[yellowduck2]

BURST was on the press yesterday, pretty interesting  
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/cryptocurrency-round-bitcoin-dead-again-microsoft-accepts-bitcoin-europe-1486243

Wow, didn't see it even when I got an alert about it - nice find, AizenSou!


 

it would be a great idea to gather all burst related news and post it on OP. It provide a shortcut to access all news for new comers / investors as well as making the coin look impressive with so many news flying around.

[coinits]

Can I copy the plot that I'm have been created in first HDD to my second HDD?
Or plots need to be a unique?

unique

Thank you for reply.
And can I use my poloniex deposit adress like my wallet, with I can mine?

Never do this. Not with any coin.