Mining & Plotting

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  Error whilst plotting
  • GamerKurisu

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  @GamerKurisu Make sure you actually have a 'plots' folder on those drives.

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  Can I mine without pool ?
  • LeoFrk2

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  It's ok, @haitch help me ant it work now !
  You can close the discussion :)

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  Help choosing a filesystem for plots
  • josem11200

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  @josem11200 said in Help choosing a filesystem for plots:

  @rnahlawi In unix systems, non-formatted partitions are like fixed size files. You can read and write, but not resize. The same applies for lots of things: terminals are files, disks are files, input devices are files...

  I got it working with a 1 GB plot, so I'll stick with it.

  All the miners expect a directory path, and they need to parse the filename(s) to correctly "identify" the nonces in the file and the internal structure (stagger). If you store the nonces directly on a raw block device (accessible via /dev/sdNN, for example), the miner wouldn't know which nonces are "in the file". To get around this you create a (symbolic) link

  ln -s /dev/sdNN /path/for/miner/id_start_count_stagger

  and feed "/path/for/miner/" to the miner.
  What you gain here is a little less i/o for metadata. I'm interested in the results, especially comparing equal-sized ext2/raw device.

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  cant seem to download gpuplotter?
  • elesdii

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  @elesdii In direct mode it plots into memory the first set of nonces, then creates the file to write them out. Until the file is complete, no more nonces get plotted. Then once the complete, but empty, file is created, then it will starting computing and displaying more nonces.

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  Deadlines NOT confirmed jminer
  • sevencardz

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  @sevencardz No it does not explain all, there are various reasons .. and the above is one of them.

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  Two disk overlapped
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  @Verified you're wasting space - if the plots are overlapped you have the same nonces in two places, both copies will equate to the same deadline, so by not overlapping you have more nonces to mine with.

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  Can I plot multiple HDD's at once?
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  Yes you can. I tried the built in cpu plotter from the aio burst wallet. Just allocate properly the core counts to use. I did it using my 2 500gb drives. It takes longer however to finish however both will be done al.ost at the same time if both have the same capacity.

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  GPU Plotting Help
  • HiDevin

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  @sevencardz yes i have used my cpu and my gpu before putting the devices.txt at 0 0 or 0 1 ( 0 1 is CPU ) ( 0 0 is GPU ) , @haitch thank god for telling me this because i thought it wasn't working the whole time lol

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  Passphrase does not match reward recipient
  • malvino

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  No prob, glad that we could help Superfriend.

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  Plotting on multiple machines same wallet issue.
  • darindarin

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  I am able to plot manually with some editing to the batch file.. still cannot plot through the AIO wallet... waiting for more ideas.. but now have a large manual plot going through running batch as admin.

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  why is xplotter making my stagger so high?
  • elesdii

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  Okay ill try that setting when i get home from work, and let you know what happens. Thanks.

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  Taking 80 seconds to read plots?
  • Eq

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  @Eq If it does not have usb 3.0 the reading time will improve when optimizing, but neither is a great improvement.

  I also used a pc and something old and with the optimized plots on my 5 TB hard drive it took 60 seconds to read it for not having usb 3.0, so I finally disassemble it and use it as an internal disk and then read it in 30 seconds

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  Passphrase does not match
  • zwoodward

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  @zwoodward the bigger pool Pool.burst4all.com was merged with lex pool as well as lex took over control of the burst4all asset and was relaunched as lex4all .. you will need to look into lex4all to see what all is benifiting the mobile pool as im not sure what of that protion of the asset changed durring the swap transition.

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  GPU Plot_Gen Question
  • GamerKurisu

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  @GamerKurisu nonces must be multiple by stagger

  gpuPlotGenerator generate buffer K:/plots/11601885512277026725_0_30260000_20000
  pause

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  pool mining vs. solo mining
  • tryhard

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  @tryhard I have only mined solo. Sometimes you hit four blocks in four hours. Sometimes you don't hit a block for a week. But all of your luck is your own. :)

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  which is the best hard drive to use for mining?
  • redrum78

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  @croydan1 hey croydan thank you for the info.

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  what's happening with my pool?
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  Moved to Mining & Plotting

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  Pool mining - did I get my reward correctly?
  • mtourig3

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  @rds you were right, it was still in the 24hr time period. Thanks, just starting here.

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  burstcoin.sk missing payment?
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  @Energy
  Ah that is why then. thanks

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  finding a blocks
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