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  HDD - NTFS partition: Possible to reduce size of cluster allocation bitmap?
  • Propagandalf

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  I only know it for Linux-systems and wouldn´t miss this option.

  If you create an ext3 or ext4 filesystem in linux, there will also be 5% of the space reserved for some OS-stuff. (similar to NTFS). With the following command (=command 1) you could reduce this value to 0% and get 5% more space out of your HDD! :)

  If you doing this and if you have many little Plotfiles i would also recommend you to use hashed b-trees to speed up the drive lookups. In easy words this will speed up the reading time. I not measure the effect, but in theory there should be one. (=command 2)

  With command 3 you "activate" these settings. Make sure that your drive is dismountet for that!

  1. sudo tune2fs -m 0 /dev/sdxY 2. sudo tune2fs -O dir_index /dev/sdXY 3. sudo e2fsck -fD /dev/sdXY

  BUT: Do this only, if your HDD is not running your OS and you use it only for Mining!

  If i should explain it a little more in Detail feel free to ask or look at the tune2fs manpage (https://linux.die.net/man/8/tune2fs)

  EDIT:
  Some additional Information: If you creating your new Ext4- or Ext3- Filesystem for your plotfiles, i would recommend to use big Clusters with the "-T" option. You could only do this when you create the Filesystem and couldn´t change it afterwards. Here is an example

  sudo mkfs.ext4 -m 0 -T largefile4 -L Partition_Name /dev/sd...
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  How to mine 4 different accounts on one PC
  • Propagandalf

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  @haitch OK, cool. I want to be able to spread my TBs over different accounts, so that I can swap pools without taking all the TBs with me. That way I monitor the income each different pool gives. :)

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  I am mining but my account stays the same
  • drgrasso

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  @damncourier I knew it was bigger but i didn't knew it was so big LOL
  I think it will replace the mobile pool sooner or later xD With 1 Gb plot on my phone i got deadlines of about 200 years very often... ;D

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  Slower read speeds with much faster GPU Card
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  Yes GPU assisted miner.

  Not sure what other reasons there could be? Everything is slower on the older computer but (except for the CPU I think old i5 is better than G4400) its getting faster mining.

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  chkdsk error
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  A:\ and B:\ were usually reserved for removable Media. Like Floppy Drives....!-)

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  Changing Pool Port
  • xmagmax

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  @rnahlawi thanks pal!

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  Plot 1GB bigger then HDD
  • Tate A

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  you can try running plot checker on it. it may rename it to actual size

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  'Last write not finished error' - wplotgenerator
  • Propagandalf

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  @haitch Oh, I thought you meant the plot generator had its own error log or something like that! Thanks anyway. :)

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  Stuck at GPuplotter setup
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  Ok. I tried the miner which shows this message: file "9183798047620998523_0_2260992_2260992" name/size mismatch
  Guess it's time to replot.

  @haitch Is the percentage being stuck means plotting has failed? I read on the forum the percentage progress might be stuck for a while before picking up the pace, but mine seems to be stuck at 0.36%, with 12288 nouce/min and zero gpu usage. Disk and ram usage is still high however.

  I'm concerned it will be like last time, where it makes a 550gb plot, then cease ram/disk activity with gpuplotter still hanging at 2%.

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  20GB plot vs bigger plot sizes
  • JamesAdams

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  @JamesAdams 240 sec would be the avrage block time , so you would def want to be less than that ... but block times regularly go 10+ min so ... who knows up to you

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  Pls help me . My android miner is on the historic share and got several hits as best miner . still i don't get get any payment yet, why is that? this is my address : BURST-2HRG-XMQA-CHX6-HBEGX
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  @MID likewiswe me when will hit the block i now we share some penny

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  anyway to trim a plot file that was done with a incorrect stagger size
  • Njcfamily31907

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  @Njcfamily31907 The plot is bad - delete and replot.

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  Error "Your Burst account's reward recipient"
  • Hajime

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  @Gibsalot Now no error occur.

  @Gibsalot said in Error "Your Burst account's reward recipient":

  you need to set your reward recipient to the pool you want to mine on . got to https://wallet.burst-team.us:8125/rewardassignment.html in the bottom two box's enter your pass phrase and the burst address for the pool you want to mine on has a fee of 1 burst. after you will need to wait 4 blocks or around 16 min's befor you start mining.

  I do only this.
  Thank you for your help!

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  pool reward
  • vlad

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  as it turns out: I'm lazy!-/ And there's no such thing as "free Data"!
  But I'm posting some raw numbers and let you draw your own conclusions (if there's somebody reading this anyway)

  I've been mining with roughly 65TB on burst.ninja and burst.lexitoshi.uk. Seven days each.

  On ninja the miner won 16 Blocks and earned a Total of 36931.15773125 Burst (40235 Burst if solo)

  on lexitoshi it won 15 Blocks and earned a Total of 32733.91999977 Burst ( 37722 Burst if solo)

  This Data might be missing a bit because it was pulled from burstcoin.biz. And those logs are spotty but only very little!

  On ninja my jminer got a lot of "not confirmed dl's" at first until I realized I was polling to fast. Turning "refreshInterval" back up to over 1000ms made made it better but still not good. So I switched to Blago's miner where still got the occasional "error 1007"!? (no idea (°_°;))

  On lexitoshi I get non of this.

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  What Does Deadline Mean?
  deadline • • stupendelious

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  @Gibsalot Thank you for explaining! Appreciate it.

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  GPU Plotter is not using my GPU memory.
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  I'm running a GTX 1070 for plotting and in my experience, the hashesNumber crashes my driver if the value is above 500 or so. I just set it to 128 and tweak the other numbers instead.

  Here are some other things I noticed with the GTX 1070 and my 16GB RAM:

  A globalWorkSize of 4096 translates to 1GB of VRAM AND 1GB of RAM usage.
  The localWorkSize doesn't want to go above 512. Higher values throw errors.
  Asking for more than 11GB/16GB total RAM for the plotter throws memory allocation errors.

  Here are some working examples:

  10 GB RAM
  10,485,760 KB / 256 = 40,960 Stagger

  makeplots.bat
  gpuPlotGenerator generate buffer D://Burst/plots/9999999_0_81920_40960
  pause

  devices.txt
  1 0 4096 512 128

  Throughput is about 22,000 nonces/minute.

  If you want to increase the VRAM usage above 1 GB, then the value must be a multiple of your Stagger size or OpenCL will throw memory allocation errors. The gpuPlotGenerator setup process recommended 16384 for me when I ran it, however, I didn't realize that it was also going to mirror that 4 GB of VRAM in the system RAM as well, so I had to reduce the Stagger size to avoid the aforementioned memory allocation errors:

  4 GB RAM
  4,194,304 KB / 256 = 16,384 Stagger

  makeplots.bat
  gpuPlotGenerator generate buffer D://Burst/plots/9999999_0_65536_16384
  pause

  devices.txt
  1 0 16384 512 128

  Throughput is about 25,000 nonces/minute.

  Here are some other tests I ran:

  Keep the 4 GB Stagger and reduce to 2 GB VRAM. Throughput is about 23,000 nonces/minute.
  Use an 8 GB Stagger with 2 GB VRAM. Throughput is about 21,000 nonces/minute.
  Use a 7 GB Stagger with 1.768 GB VRAM. Throughput is about 22,000 nonces/minute.

  So what about writing to two drives in parallel? This was a bit tricky due to my 11GB memory limitation, but still feasible:

  5 GB RAM
  5,242,880 KB / 256 = 20,480 Stagger

  makeplots.bat
  gpuPlotGenerator generate buffer D://Burst/plots/9999999_0_61440_20480 F://Burst/plots/9999999_61440_61440_20480
  pause

  devices.txt
  1 0 4096 512 128

  Throughput is about 30,000 nonces/minute.

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  miner-v1.160705 stalls on disc read error
  disc error auto restart miner • • rds

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  How to plot to a different drive
  • rds

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  @rds You're welcome.

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  Ploting with two NVIDIA Quadros M6000 using Direct mode.
  • Wolf

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  @Wolf It depends what your bottleneck is - if the card(s) can plot faster than a single drive can write, you'll see a performance boost by doing multiple drives, if however your card cant plot as fast as a drive can be written, you'll see no benefit - a two drive plot will just take twice as long.