Mining with Linux and more than one HDD. For each HDD an new instance of the mining programm ?



  • @BurnMe

    Creepminer seems to be working fine for me, but I have a problem understanding the settings for doing plots.

    Specifically what do I use as settings when I want to make a new plot for a new drive?

    These were the settings I used for my first test plot

    ./plot -k 10747524060435184832 -x 2 -d /media/sean/2TB/plots -s 0 -n 2048000 -m 4096 -t 3

    Using original algorithm.
    Creating plots for nonces 0 to 2048000 (537 GB) using 1024 MB memory and 3 threads

    If I now want to plot another drive (950 GB) what should I change? Below is the same config but with the new drive path, I just don't understand what I should put for -s & -n for the next drive.

    ./plot -k 10747524060435184832 -x 2 -d /media/sean/5623-92A3/plots -s 0 -n 2048000 -m 4096 -t 3

    Thanks for your help!



  • @scprv55

    Hi,

    i think you have to make it more easy for you.

    /plot -k 10747524060435184832 -x 2 -d /media/sean/5623-92A3/plots -s 0 -n 2048000 -m 4096 -t 3
    ./plot -k 10747524060435184832 -x 2 -d /media/sean/2TB/plots -s 0 -n 2048000 -m 4096 -t 3

    I'm only using the dcct plotter for creating plots. Therefore you can use trial and error with the dcct-gui plotter. Then you have an grafic user interface for those people like us who want to make it easy. With the gui you can easily set the startnonc the RAM used the file size and how much threads should be used.

    But the most important thing is that you don't use the same startnonces because of nonces overlapping. so it looks on the top like you are using the same nonces. I can't understand the command line commands i never used them. Im still using the gui. But i can tell you the basic things so you can translate this in a cli command (or you are using the dcct-gui).

    For the nonces you can read the how to for setting up the wallet. It is a good explanation you can see in the donwload wallet section on burstcoin homepage where you can download the wallet.

    Here is a sample for you how to configure the right plot startnonce in Linux (i thinks this is working):

    Plot 1 Startnonce 0 filesize in bytes 3.758.096.384.000 plot nonces 14.336.000 endnonce14.336.000
    Plot 2 Startnonce 14.336.001 filesize in bytes 3.758.096.384.000 plot nonces 14.336.000 endnonce 28.672.001
    Plot 3 Startnonce 28.672.002 filesize in bytes 8.001.194.819.584 plot nonces 30.522.136 endnonce 59.194.138
    Plot 4 Startnonce 59.194.139 8.001.194.819.584 30.522.136 89.716.275

    I am using the dcct-gui for plotting with the settings i want to. In the dcct you can see how many nonces you are creating. The dcct-gui adjust the filesize dependig on how much RAM you are admitting. It is easier when the plotfilesize can be divided through the RAM size, then there is no adjusting and you exactly know the plotfile size. The created nonce are displayed in the terminal of the gui too :). then you don't need to make your own calculations.

    Then you have to add Startnonce to Plotnonce and you have the hypothetic Endnonce then you have to add 1 and you get right start nonce for the next one. If you are missing the amount of noncex you can calculate it by checking the filesize in bytes with your filemanager. Then divide the filesize in bytes with 1024 and then with 256 and you get the number of nonces. F.e. 3.758.096.384.000 / 1024 / 256 = 14.336.000

    here is the short version for you:

    Startnonce Plot 2 = Startnonce Plot 1 + Nonces Plot 1 + 1 (= 0 + 14.336.000 + 1 = 14.336.001)

    (as you can the startonce for Plot 1 was 0, it has a size of 14.336.000 nonces

    then the claculation for Plot 3

    Startnonce Plot 3 = Startnonce Plot 2 + Nonces Plot 2 + 1 (=14.336.001 + 14.336.000 + 1=28.672.002)

    and so on. The best Solutino if you are planing a lot of plots on a lot of HDD to make and Excel file and then add the serial number of your HD behind the plots you are using. then if your HDD blows up you can easly see what plotfile has to create again. And you can use the excel file for calculating. So first a little more work but then for the rest of your life easy nonce calculating. Online there are some nonce calculator but its mor secure and even easiert to set up your own Excel calculation or Open Office Calc.

    So im glad the CreepMiner is workig for you, please tell which Linux Version you are running then i could try with your setting and know which Linux is good working.



  • @BurnMe it would be a good test to run the jminer (luxe did a very good job, very fast and stable miner) with your wallet problem.
    If you actually can solo mine with the jminer but not with the creepminer, this would be a sign for me that the creepminer needs a fix :)
    Please tell me if it works.



  • @Creepsky45 Ok i will try the jminer. But i will need some time for installing. Actually i don't know how to install so i need some time to find the way. Actually im downloading the blockchain after set up a new Linux installation, its very slow so i can't speed it up.



  • @BurnMe

    Thank you for the excellent advice re: plotting.

    Your suggestion to use a spreadsheet is very clever, I will do that using Google Sheets.

    I spent (wasted) the last few days trying to plot a 1TB drive. It would get to 4.3GB then stop. This morning I decided to try plotting more space on my 2TB drive and that went smoothly, so I thought maybe there is something wrong with the 1TB drive.

    Turns out plotting works on NTFS formatted drives but will not work on FAT formatted drives. So I need to reformat the 1TB to NTFS first.

    I am using Linux Mint Cinnamon 64bit.

    Cheers



  • @scprv55

    ok scprv but why are you using ntfs with Linux ? Ext.4 or btrfs should be better with Linux.

    You said you are using Mintlinux Cinnamon , which version 18.1 ? or older ?


  • admin

    @BurnMe said in Mining with Linux and more than one HDD. For each HDD an new instance of the mining programm ?:

    Actually im downloading the blockchain after set up a new Linux installation, its very slow so i can't speed it up.

    Have you tried: https://forums.burst-team.us/topic/751/howto-use-opencl-gpu-for-accelerated-snyc-with-blockchain ?



  • @luxe
    hin i downloaded the blockchain zip. So the sync goes faster for me . Now made a backup of my blockchain. SO when crashing or o new install for testing the blockchain gets in sync fast. But thanks for your replay, will look at this options for faster block sync.



  • @BurnMe

    I'm not sure why the drive is NTFS, I think maybe because once upon a time it needed to work with a windows machine (external drive)

    I'm running the latest version of Mint so I guess that is 18.1

    I've plotted 1.18 TB and I'm trying to mine on burstneon but I'm still not sure it is working.....

    Kind of frustrating, but I guess eventually I'll get it.

    Couple of questions....

    once my miner is running can I close my web based wallet https://wallet.burst-team.us:8125/index.html ??

    Also can I close the pool website http://burstneon.ddns.net/ ??

    Or do I have to keep those windows open all the time?

    So much of this stuff is just not made clear and the documentation is really vague.


  • admin

    @scprv55 yes you can close the other windows, the miner does not require them.



  • @haitch

    Thanks for clarifying that.

    Much appreciated!



  • @scprv55

    Don't give up mining with Linux. I think when it runs its more stable and secure than windows. But be aware of pool mining. I tested pool mining, its working.

    But the whole pools have no informations who is responsible for the setup or what kind of company they are. Without an information you can't see if they working in the legal way. This a bit disappointing and i don't know why there are a lot of pools without any information about the company or person who is running the pool.

    Has anybody informations or can say where the pools host important informations ? (f.e. the country of the head office, address of the head office )

    I can't get any information from the pools. This seems a bit unsecure and dubious especially then when you are mining you have to know more than only the pool url adress.



  • @BurnMe

    Hi dude, I am only trying pool mining. I started with pool.burst-team.us and actually got 22 burst, but I then switched to burstneon.ddns.net and so far nothing. They have a chat and some guys are quite helpful but there is nothing with these mining pools to show that you are working until you get some burst from them to show it wasn't just time being wasted.

    I'm now mining with 1.18 TB and I'll and I'll add more when I know that for sure my mining is being counted.

    I agree with you that there is no security as to who we are mining for, basically a lot of trust.

    Hope you are doing well



  • @scprv55 Trusting is good, but if you are making some more burst you need the whole information of the pool because when your financial office is asking you about what are you doing and the only thing you can say is that you trust them its really not enough and you can get in serious trouble. For testing and some fun its ok, but when you make a big rig for mining you have to know more. You can trust but thats no solution when someone official is asking you. There are more things to tink about than only IT Security. I think a lot of people doesn't matter of this but everyone has to know what he is doing. And if someone is saying it doesn't matter and don't want to know anything it's ok for him but he is responsible for his own decession.



  • @BurnMe

    I guess you mean your tax department. I don't have to pay any tax if the money comes from outside my country.

    I'm more concerned with doing the work and the pool owner keeping the coins I helped to find.

    Anyway, at the moment I am not mining because I'm plotting more and optimizing the plots

    How are you getting on?



  • @scprv55 its hard getting on. I can't mine the right way. I have problems on solo mining to get the actual block. I post it here in Forum.


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