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[dcct]

What are the important things for mining burst? Could i mine with an old CPU and 2x2TB ore more? How much RAM is usefull? What is with the transferspeed? Could i use more USB Drives?
Is it better to use Linux? Questions over Questions...i hope someone hav answers for me...thanks al lot :-)

The plot settings 0 51200 1000 2 are ok, but thats just 12GB. You need to generate a lot more plot files to get good deadlines. Ram? With linux you can start with 1GB, with windows & java you need 2GB+. The 2x2TB setup will get you way better results.
Slow transfer speeds like with USB2 can slightly reduce your block finding chances, but its still worth it.

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[yuk]

they are difference between one big TB plot and one TB splitted in 10 smaller plots?

is possible merge plots? i made many plots due to prevent crash system..

[dcct]

they are difference between one big TB plot and one TB splitted in 10 smaller plots?

is possible merge plots? i made many plots due to prevent crash system..

No difference, as long as its not 100's of plots. Just use them as they are.

[Q_R_V]

As far as i know there is no difference. As long as they don't overlap everything is ok.

[pattitheonly]

What are the important things for mining burst? Could i mine with an old CPU and 2x2TB ore more? How much RAM is usefull? What is with the transferspeed? Could i use more USB Drives?
Is it better to use Linux? Questions over Questions...i hope someone hav answers for me...thanks al lot :-)

The plot settings 0 51200 1000 2 are ok, but thats just 12GB. You need to generate a lot more plot files to get good deadlines. Ram? With linux you can start with 1GB, with windows & java you need 2GB+. The 2x2TB setup will get you way better results.
Slow transfer speeds like with USB2 can slightly reduce your block finding chances, but its still worth it.

Thanks for the answer :-). Could you explain how i calculate the plotvalue? I had 50GB, that means for me 50*1024*1024Byte, but what it means in plots? I read somthing before, but i cuold'nt understand the the calculation...

[yuk]

ok thx

[timk225]

If I had a 8x3TB RAID0 or JBOD span, what generate numbers should I use?

Would I want a single plot?

1TB = 1024 GB

24 TB = 24576 GB

Multiply this by 4096 per GB, equals 100663296.

But I have read here that this big number should be an even multiple of 8191 for whatever reason, and 100663296 / 8191 = 12289.5, so use 12289 * 8191, which equals 100659199.

Spanning 8 3TB drives into one might work (I think Windows NTFS has a 16 TB limit, check on that) but it'd take a helluva long time to plot.  Like weeks with a high end i7 cpu.

My AMD FX 4130 3.8 Ghz cpu took 2-1/2 days to plot 600 GB.

No blocks yet, 2 days later.

[SpeedDemon13]

If I had a 8x3TB RAID0 or JBOD span, what generate numbers should I use?

Would I want a single plot?

Personally I would do a RAID5, just to have some insurance with the parity and plus it's simplier to manage one plot. If the array fails a drive or two, it's easier to rebuild the array than re-plotting everything again and would have less down time. If you decide not to do an array, RAID/JBOD, then just make a plot for each drive.

[crowetic]

Dang, 2TB of my space hasn't been mining all day

[pattitheonly]

What would be a good Solution?

4TB and a Hexa-Core Xeon E5-2620 or better a Quad-Core Xeon E3-1230 and 12TB?
Or better more TB but then it takes so long to plot...

[Depredation]

people dumping now on c-cex

[SpeedDemon13]

What would be a good Solution?

4TB and a Hexa-Core Xeon E5-2620 or better a Quad-Core Xeon E3-1230 and 12TB?
Or better more TB but then it takes so long to plot...

Hexa would be good to do the plots faster, but 12TB with the Quad is fine too. More HDD storage is more important, you might be able to OC the quad a bit to get it to create plots faster.

[neite99]

people dumping now on c-cex

That is not dumping. Just standard swings

[bitminer82]

Can anyone explain how to install and use dcct's plot generator for Linux dummies?

I tried last night with the two commands in the OP using Ubuntu and only got an error like 'command "plot" not recognized'.  I'm at work now so I can't get the exact details but it sounds like I screwed something up...  I guess there's a chance I wasn't using 64 but Ubuntu - I just grabbed an old DVD I burned but the plot command should still do something, shouldn't it?

EDIT: Yes I was in the correct directory.  The ls command showed plot, the original .tgz I had extracted as well as all the other files that extracted and compiled with it.

type in:
uname -a

x86_64 in there?

Yes.

Code:

3.13.0-24-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 10 19:11:08 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

And the error I get when I try

Code:

generator@generator-desktop:/media/generator/239DA259288DCE73$ ls
Makefile  plot  plot.c  plotgenerator.tgz  shabal.h  shabal.o  shabal.s
generator@generator-desktop:/media/generator/239DA259288DCE73$ sudo ./plot 86----------84595 100000000 10625000 8191 4
[sudo] password for generator: 
sudo: ./plot: command not found
generator@generator-desktop:/media/generator/239DA259288DCE73$ 

Tried with and without the sudo.  Somehow I didn't have write permissions on the drive that I formatted under this user.  I played around with chmod but who knows what that did... It also gave it a crazy weird numbered name.  Linux...

[pattitheonly]

What would be a good Solution?

4TB and a Hexa-Core Xeon E5-2620 or better a Quad-Core Xeon E3-1230 and 12TB?
Or better more TB but then it takes so long to plot...

Hexa would be good to do the plots faster, but 12TB with the Quad is fine too. More HDD storage is more important, you might be able to OC the quad a bit to get it to create plots faster.

thanks :-)

[Prototyp]

Low sells, no panic it will rise again.

If I had a 8x3TB RAID0 or JBOD span, what generate numbers should I use?

Would I want a single plot?

I use cheap SATA Controller and single drives. Raid5 is safer but you can also take RAID0 or JBOD .

I would always take 2TB plots not  a large plot.

[SpeedDemon13]

people dumping now on c-cex

It's going to happen, very normal to have an occasional period of dumping, it will rebound eventually. Just like the people who sold cheap at the beginning of C-Cex listing. All a part of cypto world, just need to wait and jump on opportunities when they arise.

[MOB]

Low sells, no panic it will rise again.

If I had a 8x3TB RAID0 or JBOD span, what generate numbers should I use?

Would I want a single plot?

I use cheap SATA Controller and single drives. Raid5 is safer but you can also take RAID0 or JBOD .

I would always take 2TB plots not  a large plot.

Thanks!

So, what would the generate command look like?

ID#:

Plot Start: 1

Plot End: 8392704 (for a 2TB--right?)

What are the next two?  The plot size and then what (edit: this is threads maybe?)?  The guide has them set to 1000 & 4 respectively.

[duilionet]

And the error I get when I try

Code:

generator@generator-desktop:/media/generator/239DA259288DCE73$ ls
Makefile  plot  plot.c  plotgenerator.tgz  shabal.h  shabal.o  shabal.s
generator@generator-desktop:/media/generator/239DA259288DCE73$ sudo ./plot 86----------84595 100000000 10625000 8191 4
[sudo] password for generator: 
sudo: ./plot: command not found
generator@generator-desktop:/media/generator/239DA259288DCE73$ 

Tried with and without the sudo.  Somehow I didn't have write permissions on the drive that I formatted under this user.  I played around with chmod but who knows what that did... It also gave it a crazy weird numbered name.  Linux...

you must first compile C.

Code:

sudo apt-get install build-essential gcc

after You write command Makefile. So Plot file will be created and can be used.
I am not an expert on linux but I learned. 

[dcct]

Tried with and without the sudo.  Somehow I didn't have write permissions on the drive that I formatted under this user.  I played around with chmod but who knows what that did... It also gave it a crazy weird numbered name.  Linux...

Show us what you did:

ls -la