Not sure if I'm doing this right :(
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@Gibsalot He's on .eu, so should be getting deadlines.
@TellezMiotta I suspect there is something wrong with your plotfile, with 5TB you should be getting deadlines on the .eu pretty much every round. I would recommend deleting the plot and recreating it using xplotter. Let us know if you need assistance in doing that.
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@haitch i thought .EU was a longer deadline pool but im not that familer with it so was not sure, i agree with 5TB he should be geting deadlines even if they are a few days long.
0Burst ... BURST-Z7VW-2PQH-AR3V-EX3ZW
BTC..... 1P9pPkymV7358EeqPJZuLEeDrGrXXzyZjx
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@Gibsalot Yeah, .EU has a 17.5 day DL limit - if a 5TB plot is not finding DL's in that range, there's a problem with the plot.
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I was using the plotter that comes with the Burst client GUI.... is that a bad one? It took me almost 3 days... but now that you bring that up... on the last night the electricity went down when I was asleep....but i turn on the RIG the next morning and saw that Blango was recognizing the plot and that the hard drive was full so i though It completed the plot before the electricity shut down...
Should I re plot then? Should I do it with the plotter that comes with the burst client GUI? (should I plot 2.5 Tb so i could optimize the plot or should I go for the 5 tb) Should I plot while mining ethereum with my GPUs?
Thanks in advance! :)
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@TellezMiotta The current AIO wallet uses xplotter as it's default plotter, so yeah, use that. You can manually restart xplotter and it will complete the plot, or delete the plot and start over.
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Ok... I just deleted the plot (With a lot of pain I must add) thos plots take TOO DANM long.... What if electricity shuts down again (that happens a lot on Venezuela) should I deleted again and start over? Or is it a way to start from where the plotter left of?
I may add that i was getting DL every round on http://burst.btfg.space/ and I though EU was not for me... but since this is an experiment I'd like to do it right just to see if its worthy to but HDD... this 5tb cost me 60$ and I'm able to find more of those.... that's why im interested in this way of mining.. I hope this works
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@TellezMiotta If you lose power it's possible to manually restart xplotter and continue the plot without deleting. If it happens post here and we can walk you through how to do it.
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Awesome! Thank u! Sure I will! one more thing... How much time do you think a 5Tb plot should take? (If this turns out to be good i'll buy another 5tb hard drive to optimize my original plot with)
I'll remove to .EU when this plot is done!
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@haitch said in Not sure if I'm doing this right :(:
@Gibsalot He's on .eu, so should be getting deadlines.
@TellezMiotta I suspect there is something wrong with your plotfile, with 5TB you should be getting deadlines on the .eu pretty much every round. I would recommend deleting the plot and recreating it using xplotter. Let us know if you need assistance in doing that.
I don't think the first reaction should be to delete the plot and start over. He could have just restarted the xplotter with the # nonce parameter on the existing file and picked up where the power failure left off. If the file was 80% he would have only had to plot 1TB instead of 5TB with a restart. Just my opinion.
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@rds If the plot was 80% complete, he should have been finding DL's on .eu. I advised to delete the plot because it seems very broken to me - even an 80% complete plot should be able to find DL's, or throw an error about bad DL's. With no DL's being found at all something is wrong with the plot.
@TellezMiotta How long a plot will take really depends on your CPU, disk controller and disks. I'm currently doing about 10TB/day - but that's on a system with dual Xeon processors, 20 cores/40 threads. More regular home processors won't do that rate. But xplotter is the most reliable and efficient plotter there is - I'm considering redoing some of my existing plots done with GPU Plotter as they're throwing errors.
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@haitch said in Not sure if I'm doing this right :(:
@rds If the plot was 80% complete, he should have been finding DL's on .eu. I advised to delete the plot because it seems very broken to me - even an 80% complete plot should be able to find DL's, or throw an error about bad DL's. With no DL's being found at all something is wrong with the plot.
@TellezMiotta How long a plot will take really depends on your CPU, disk controller and disks. I'm currently doing about 10TB/day - but that's on a system with dual Xeon processors, 20 cores/40 threads. More regular home processors won't do that rate. But xplotter is the most reliable and efficient plotter there is - I'm considering redoing some of my existing plots done with GPU Plotter as they're throwing errors.
True enough about the 80% (4TB) being able to generate DL for EU pool. Just saying that on a power fail or write fail because the dog tripped over the USB cord delete plot is not my first thought, restart is.
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@rds I totally agree - I've tripped the breaker in my room multiple times, and have had to restart plots. But 4TB plotted and 0 deadlines - something is wrong with the plotfile. It may be that it's locked by the plotter, but I'd just start over.
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need to see miner's config (or log file), perhaps something like "TargetDeadline": 4000
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@Blago my assumption is file locked because its being plotted - but lets get it plotted.
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@Blago said in Not sure if I'm doing this right :(:
need to see miner's config (or log file), perhaps something like "TargetDeadline": 4000
Wouldn't a pool DL override the target DL line in the config file?
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Guys your support has been amazing :D I really appreciate it! as of now here's a screenshot of my progress on plotting my hard drive again!
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@rds if LocalTargetDeadline < PoolTargetDeadline => miner use LocalTargetDeadline
if pool did not set TargetDeadline (or local wallet), then miner set use LocalTargetDeadline
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My power went down again.... Restarted the plot again because I only got to 1%... I'd like instructions in case it happens again (it will happen again) How do I start the plot exactly at the point where it left of?
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@TellezMiotta said in Not sure if I'm doing this right :(:
My power went down again.... Restarted the plot again because I only got to 1%... I'd like instructions in case it happens again (it will happen again) How do I start the plot exactly at the point where it left of?
You should run the xplotter from a bat file that looks like this:
c:\burst\XPlotter.v1.0\XPlotter_avx.exe -id 8576079156750775373 -sn 400000001 -n 19075256 -t 4 -path d:\burst\plots -mem 4G
Assuming the xplotter is in the c:\burst folder, otherwise edit the above line to point to the folder your plotter is located.
The 857... number is your wallet id, make sure it is right. I copied it off your screenshot above.
19075256 nonces is a little over 5*10^12 bytes, commonly called 5TB.
-t 4 is for 4 threads. If that overloads your machine lower it to 3 or 2 ro 1. If you have a screaming machine increase up to your max thread capability.
Same for -mem 4G. Adjust as needed so you don't run out of ram.
Smaller ram will not slow the plot time but the more threads you can allocate to the plotter the faster it will generate nonces.
You need to right click the bat file and select "run as administrator".
Now, anytime the power goes out, or if you just want to shut off the plotting, you just restart the bat file (run as administrator) and you will pick up where you left off.
You can run this file on the file you are currently plotting assuming the # of nonces in your current file is the same as the 19075256. If it is different, like 19075255 then adjust the bat file accordingly.
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@rds said in Not sure if I'm doing this right :(:
@TellezMiotta said in Not sure if I'm doing this right :(:
My power went down again.... Restarted the plot again because I only got to 1%... I'd like instructions in case it happens again (it will happen again) How do I start the plot exactly at the point where it left of?
You should run the xplotter from a bat file that looks like this:
c:\burst\XPlotter.v1.0\XPlotter_avx.exe -id 8576079156750775373 -sn 400000001 -n 19075256 -t 4 -path d:\burst\plots -mem 4G
Assuming the xplotter is in the c:\burst folder, otherwise edit the above line to point to the folder your plotter is located.
The 857... number is your wallet id, make sure it is right. I copied it off your screenshot above.
19075256 nonces is a little over 5*10^12 bytes, commonly called 5TB.
-t 4 is for 4 threads. If that overloads your machine lower it to 3 or 2 ro 1. If you have a screaming machine increase up to your max thread capability.
Same for -mem 4G. Adjust as needed so you don't run out of ram.
Smaller ram will not slow the plot time but the more threads you can allocate to the plotter the faster it will generate nonces.
You need to right click the bat file and select "run as administrator".
Now, anytime the power goes out, or if you just want to shut off the plotting, you just restart the bat file (run as administrator) and you will pick up where you left off.
You can run this file on the file you are currently plotting assuming the # of nonces in your current file is the same as the 19075256. If it is different, like 19075255 then adjust the bat file accordingly.
Ok.... I just have one question... that text for the bat file kinda resembles the title that's on the windoes of the prompt where i'm at right now... The thing is that the title of the prompto has -n 0 whereas you have -n 19075256 ... what does that means? And how the bat file ''knows'' where it left of the last time?
Thank you in advance...
