Plotting and Mining on Amazon Cloud Drive



  • @RichBC I know this is a stupid question but in the Batch file for
    set account= I am guess that is your burstcoin Numeric Account # ?



  • @gersey Yes correct you will of course need to replace it with your numeric ID :-)

    Rich



  • Naa I'll just leave yours ;] thanks your the help! I'll send you some coins for a beer after I start mining.



  • My time on the VPS has come to an end. I have 30TB of Plots uploaded, so time to move to the Mining Phase.

    Initially I am Mining from Home with the 80Mb/s download speed. Am just using the lates files I uploaded. There are 8 Folders each with 80 25GB files in, so a total of 16TB.

    It needs 8 Minutes to read all the Plots, so rarely get's through them all. I may reduce the number of files being read as I would like there to be some breaks in accessing the files as I think continuous reading is possibly one action that sounds alarm Bells?

    I will let it run with the 16TB for a couple of hours and see how it goes.

    Rich



  • @RichBC
    Thanks for keeping us updated Rich.
    Unlocking the ACD has become quite regular for me I am afraid.
    It is unlocked fairly easily using the online chat line to CS but it is a pain having to keep tabs on it all the time.
    At least once a day it will lock out.
    Although the CS team give me various reasons why it might be locking out, I suspect that it is due to the high activity with the constant downloading every time a new block is read.
    I keep going nonetheless and will see how the returns are after a month or so.
    I have also separated the files into 5TB groups at the moment and experimenting with the optimum size to download ratio.



  • @machasm Interesting, that you use the online chat, have been making a phone call but will try chat.

    What are your stats. TB, Download speed, Read Time for the full plot etc? What do you get in the way of breaks in the Download?

    Rich



  • @RichBC
    Reading a 5.8TB plot at 9.53Mb/s takes 153 secs on a T2.micro instance. (don't really have a fast enough connection at home to mine remotely).
    Sometimes, for no reason that I can make out, the downloads will slow significantly with occasional read errors.
    I don't think that this is down to the T2 instance but probably down to the ACD download speed being throttled at some point (don't know why) as I have another T2 instance which exhibits the same problem at the same time.
    Its pretty hard to figure out what is going on with so many variables!
    Using the chat bypasses all the verification process as you initiate the chat once you are logged in.



  • @machasm With that TB & Download speed you must get some reasonable breaks in downloading, so disappointing that you are getting locked. Which Miner are you using? I am on Blago at the Moment and so far no read errors.

    Here are my Break between Blocks for the last Blocks, there have been some slow ones.

    0,0,0,0,0,2m,10s,0,3m,0,30s,0,0,0

    The phone call is done on a call back, which is instant, so also no verification

    Spoke too soon just had a couple of error ReadFile

    Rich

    Just had a 7min 21sec Deadline thought I was going to win the Block, but went to 5min 28 sec......



  • @RichBC
    Yep using Blago here too.
    The last three blocks were all within a minute of each other which means the plots didn't finish reading.
    Most of the reads take between two to three minutes on 5-6 TB so as long as the block takes longer than that to solve then I get a portion of the share.
    Only problem that I can see is if you get a short deadline (say around 30-40secs) but it is at the end of the plot read (about 120Secs from start) not sure what would happen here?
    Would the DL be ignored or does it still count?
    Meant to ask also which pool are you using?



  • @machasm In terms of getting a share all that matters is have you submitted a Deadline, where it is in the plots is irrelevant. If so you will get a share proportional to your Deadline v all the other Deadlines on the Pool. That then builds in your Historic Share and will become "real" when a Block is hit by the Pool.

    Which Pool are you on? I am on pool.ccminer.net:8080 because that is where my main 80TB miner is at the moment, so I can keep an eye on them both. It is geared towards larger miners (deadlines < 24Hr) so I am only hitting occasional deadline, but this is testing so does not matter.

    Rich



  • @RichBC
    I have been having quite good payouts on pool.burstcoin.sk BUT they have had some server issues recently with it getting stuck on a block or worse, being unavailable altogether!
    That said it is up and running now and I have three miners running there
    BURST-H4NE-J5SQ-9FNZ-HMYTF
    BURST-GGYR-VRZY-6BMT-ET5HQ
    and
    BURST-FBRW-6NKH-W3L6-5UXA5
    Also forged a couple of blocks there!!



  • @machasm Have had a couple of Hours from Home and got a measure on how things are going, so have switched to the Free EC2 Instance for a comparison.

    So it runs fine but immediately ran into the string of error Readfile. It is endless and you have to stop and restart the miner0_1488712802323_ReadFile.jpg

    RichOdd thing is that if I restart on the same Block I get the error again at the same 80% point in the file?

    Rich



  • @RichBC
    Yes I have had a couple of those. It is related to network performance I think.
    You may find that this problem will dissappear and then reappear.
    I can see that this is happening after restarting the miner as there is no way you are getting 57.32Mb/s from tha instance!!
    What speed are you getting btw on the t2?



  • @machasm yes that snapshot was after a retry, so out of the cache. Don't no the speed yet, it stopped on the first block and then on the next block I immediately got the string of errors. Last time I tried the ec2 I had a lot more problems with this error. Back in a minute with more.

    Had to disconnect and reconnect NetDrive to get the Miner to run without errors?

    Initally I was getting 20Mb/s but seems at the moment to be throttled to 10Mb/s You can see the throttling here.

    0_1488714070310_Throttle.jpg

    But a lot of errors needing a disconnection and re connection. so overall not looking very good...

    Rich



  • @RichBC
    Which OS have you opted for in the AWS instance?



  • @machasm Win Server 2008 R2 Datacenter

    Have gone back to the Home PC for the moment which is Win 7 Ultimate

    Here's the Home Transfer Graph, very flat topped, completely maxing and limited by my Download Bandwidth.

    0_1488714750619_Home-Speed.jpg

    Rich



  • @RichBC
    I am running 2012 R2 on my instances. Don't think it will make any difference though. Your home network speeds are comparable with what you are getting with the T2 instance. Only problem is that you need to leave your home PC running 24/7 so electricity costs come in to play. The T2 instance however is free!!



  • @machasm It runs 24/7 anyway, so no additional cost :-) Its not my main home which has terrible speed and very unreliable Internet, we are 4 Miles from the exchange, but I have put a remote PC at what will be the main Home later this year and fortunate to have a fibre cabinet 300Yds away.

    I will run as I am and see how long it takes to get locked?

    Rich



  • So I mined with the 16TB for some hours Yesterday, however later in the day everything ground to a halt on the Pool I was on.

    Have moved to pool.burstmining.club this Morning and we are up and running again. Deadline here is much longer so am making more submissions. Let's see how it goes Today?

    Rich



  • @RichBC
    Hey Rich. Looks like the pool you were on is still stuck this morning! Shame, as I was thinking of hopping on to it too.


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