@Weasel, I use a GTX1060 6GB and I had the same issue. It was the devices.txt settings. Here is what I have now for values:
0 0 2048 128 2048
I've tried some different settings, like you I'm not convinced I've found optimal values yet.
@Weasel, I use a GTX1060 6GB and I had the same issue. It was the devices.txt settings. Here is what I have now for values:
0 0 2048 128 2048
I've tried some different settings, like you I'm not convinced I've found optimal values yet.
@darkcloudninja said in College:
ahhy. thats cool :D
Why are we both up at 2:17 AM? Which campus will you be attending?
Hi @Jimmyg123. There's definitely a learning curve when getting started, so no one is going to think you are an idiot. Actually, if you got some space plotted and got onto a pool you are doing well!
Like @haitch said, there is really no substitute for hard drive space. The cheapest route would be to slap on external USB 3.0 drives as your budget allows. A little here, a little there; it adds up.
Be aware too that mining is all statistical and random. Over time you will generally earn a certain average amount for a rig of a certain size. But it rarely comes steadily. You might get little or nothing for days, then make up for it by finding a block or even two in a short time. I've learned to semi-ignore the round to round stuff and just look at the numbers after one (or two or three) days.
@darkcloudninja, you're not alone! I'm a Hoosier too. NW Indiana. And I attended Ivy Tech a million years ago after high school. Nice to "meet" you here!
@haitch said in 100TB Burst rig questions:
@Evo You could frankenstein one, but you'll still need the right parts - the server chassis mainly use SAS expanders or direct attach connectors, and a lot of the backplanes are limited to 2TB or less drives, so you need to understand the specs of the back plane, and the corresponding capabilities of the controller you're using to drive it. Is it standard SAS SFF8087, or proprietary, X to SFF8087 ?
Basically it comes down to high drive volume miners require good knowledge or good advice.
@haitch, it'll have to be good advice! We'll chat down the road.
@haitch said in 100TB Burst rig questions:
@Evo re: lock ups - if you have a decent CPU, use Xplotter. It can resume crashed/halted plots.
@haitch, yeah, I'll have to give it a try. Right now I'm almost (one left) done plotting a batch of 8TB SMRs. That will get me North of 100TB, which was my goal. Won't be plotting any more till the next machine, whatever that turns out to be.
Had a thought after the my previous reply...if the servers can be so tricky for mere mortals like me to get right, what about Frankensteining a decent consumer mobo/processor with one or two GPUs and one or two SATA/SAS expansion cards into one of those 24 bay chassis? How would you imagine a hybrid like this might compare to the all server grade rig? Just curious.
@haitch, that's pretty much what I assumed. Good of you to offer to advise on choices. Thanks. BTW, regarding wives, I think I have a winner: she's had to have noticed that the line of drives keeps getting longer and longer, but she hasn't asked once about how much I've spent. She will ask "how much did you make today". I tell her. I don't tell her how long it's going to be before I hit my ROI. Fingers crossed that things stay as they are!
@IncludeBeer, no problem! I've had pretty good luck plotting that way. As I said, I do keep my files under 3TB each. For some reason the damn plotter, at least on my machine, will arbitrarily lock up on the big 6TB to 8TB plots.
@Gibsalot said in WTH Net DIff ??? bipolar much:
what is with the difficulty i have seen it as high at 64k and as low as 32k today just randomly looking at my miner. its always fluxed but have never seen it swing so far in just a matter of a few blocks
I know! Ugh! Somewhere there was a post about the global size of total hard drive space dedicated to Burst mining growing rapidly in the last few weeks. So basically lots of new miners and/or lots of Petabyte or near Petabyte sized rigs being added to the network. So the network hashratehas gone way up.
I found the following online regarding Bitcoin:
*The Bitcoin difficulty started at 1 (and can never go below that). Then for every 2016 blocks that are found, the timestamps of the blocks are compared to find out how much time it took to find 2016 blocks, call it T. We want 2016 blocks to take 2 weeks, so if T is different, we multiply the difficulty by (2 weeks / T) - this way, if the hashrate continues the way it was, it will now take 2 weeks to find 2016 blocks.
For example, if it took only 10 days it means difficulty is too low and thus will be increased by 40%.
The difficulty can increase or decrease depending on whether it took less or more than 2 weeks to find 2016 blocks. Generally, the difficulty will decrease after the network hashrate drops.* -from a post on StackExchange authored by Meni Rosenfeld.
Since it is often quoted that Burst blocks are mined on average every 4 minutes, I'm guessing the Burst difficulty must follow a similar procedure to modulate or throttle the mining with regards to more or less hashrate.
@haitch said in 100TB Burst rig questions:
CPUs * 4
Drives (just not at that price .... )
@haitch, actually, for what your getting, the prices are pretty good. I got into Burst with the home PC I had and it's just kinda grownto occupy an entire corner of a spare bedroom. I'm not so keen on the tangle of power supplies, USB cables and power strips, not to mention the fact that the nice PC I had for general use is pretty much tied up with my mining. Still, it's been a good way to get my feet wet and learn the basics.
I'm at the point where a second machine is a necessity if I want to grow, and after looking at your posts (thank you), I think I may elect to go the self contained chassis route. I can't imagine doubling the number of external drives I have have strewn about! More importantly, I'm pretty sure Mrs. Evo would not be happy and that I would be violating the happy wife, happy life principle.
My fear is that I know absolutely nothing about the server level hardware and what works with what. I'd hate to get a "good buy", only to find out it is incompatible with some other parts I purchased. How much "advanced knowledge" is need to get one of these puppies up and running, or is it really more cookie-cutter and less rocket science than I am imagining? Any good "Resurrecting 24-bay server hardware for Burst mining for dummies" tutorials out there?
@IncludeBeer said in 100TB Burst rig questions:
@Dtrade16 said in 100TB Burst rig questions:
This is a great community and an interesting project. I've heard people using their CPU to mine as well so I may start off with that first and see how it goes.
I broke my CPU cooler and I'm in the process of getting a new one. As soon as I do, I will get this loner desktop up and running and get a better understanding of everything.Ya, this is a good idea. Get a feel for the different tools used in plotting and see how it goes. From there, you'll be in a much better state for building an actual hdd rig.
Personally, I prefer optimized drives (meaning the stagger is the same size as the plot, increases read speeds). The cpu plotter creates these automatically. The gpu plotter unfortunately doesn't, so you would need to run a second long-running program to optimize them. For this reason alone, I prefer to let my gpus do altcoin mining and I just plot with my i7-5930k.
@IncludeBeer, actually the gpu plotter can create optimized plots. It's as simple as using the "direct" command:
non-optimized: gpuPlotGenerator generate buffer {drive}:{plot file name}
optimized: gpuPlotGenerator generate direct {drive}:{plot file name}
In direct mode it will make two passes; one to generate the file and a second to optimize.