The last block I received was 373589, I'm UK based.
Hope the attack ends soon.
Posts made by Althalus
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RE: tross Burstcoin Poolposted in Pool Announcements
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RE: Stagger Sizeposted in Mining & Plotting
@Blago thanks for the quick reply.
Does xplotter set a stagger? if so how is it calculated? -
Stagger Sizeposted in Mining & Plotting
Hi all,
I managed to plot using the GPU plotter on a 4TB Seagate Barracuda, and a toshiba 1TB usb3 portable drive. I used a stagger of 40960, and set the nonces to a multiple of the stagger.
Using the g miner it reads the 1TB in 5-9 secs and the 4TB in 12-18 secs.I setup my old PC (to get ready for ethereum mining), and decided to try plotting/mining on that. That PC has 4GB of ram instead of 16GB like my main. I wasn't able to use the onboard graphics, so I used xplotter. In the settings there is no where to set the stagger that I could see, only how much ram to use. This setting is in GBs rather than whatever the stagger is rated in.
Are these the same setting, therefore should I be setting the nonces to a multiple of the ram used when using xplotter?
Should people be looking to get a PC with 64 or 128GB of ram for the best plotting ability? -
RE: [ERROR] Error while writting to plots fileposted in Help & Support
Hi all,
First of all I would like to say thank you for your help, I have been reading the forums and my questions have been answered in different posts.
I decided to post my first message on the end of this one as I was getting the error "[ERROR] Error while writting to plots file."I managed to plot a 1TB drive using the following gpuPlotGenerator generate direct i:\154118381297017224_0_3809280_40960
I tried a few times as I thought it had stopped working, however realised that i was just being impatient.
It plotted ok.Next I tried to plot a 4TB drive, and I got the error, I thought I had a faulty disk.
I ran chkdsk /r which took ages, and found no errors.
I tried again using the same parameters gpuPlotGenerator generate direct i:\154118381297017224_3809280_15237120_40960.
It plotted so far then stopped with the error, the file it created was 2347076096kb
I decided to do a full format, which took ages.
I tried again using gpuPlotGenerator generate direct i:\154118381297017224_3809280_15224832_36864
It plotted so far then stopped with the error, the file it created was 2557412352kb
Then I read this thread, so I decided to use i:\154118381297017224_3809280_15237120_32768
However at the same time I also decided to check my swap settings, as not much swapping was happening.
I then remembered that because I have 16GB of ram I thought windows shouldn't need to do much swapping, so I had set it to 200 - 2000(saving space on ssd). I changed it to system managed.
This time it got much further with only (only) 600GB to go, however I caught the power button with my leg trying to remove a wireless dongle, it stopped.
As I believe I had fixed the issue, I decided to try again using the same parameters gpuPlotGenerator generate direct i:\154118381297017224_3809280_15237120_40960. The drive has done the 'initial plot' ie filled the drive, now its working some other magic.
The drive is filled, with 6.61GB free space. It started with 26000 nonces per minute, pausing at 0.26%.
Now the drive has filled it started processing at 100 nonces per minute, with 7 weeks eta, climbing to 600 nonces, and 2 weeks eta, while it copies to the hdd.I'm wondering if it starts processing from the end of the drive after it has filled, as this drive was giving speeds of 180 MB/s, but was at 80MB/s toward the end of the 'initial fill', now it's doing 80MB/s with whatever it is doing now.
Current ETA is 1w 4d 14h, but the nonces per minute are going up every time it processes.
I haven't started mining yet, but did managed to get 1 Burst form a faucet. Do I need any more if I am to mine in a pool?