@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.
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@Dtrade16, hi there. Kinda surprised your thread sat for so many days without some feedback. I started mining in February, and by April had a 50TB rig. From April to May I made around 50,000 coins. Between May and June, I've mined about 42,000 coins. That was with a larger rig (87.9 TB), but there was a big swelling in network capacity and the difficulty levels shot way up. Also, there is a certain randomness to Burst mining. Some days I'll make next to nothing, then the next day I might forge three blocks and get 600 to 900 coins in historical pool earnings as well. I don't have enough months under my belt to know how it varies strictly due to this randomness.
There are a lot of variables that go into mining, but here are my thoughts, for what they are worth. You can CPU mine and plot, but GPU mining and plotting should be quicker, and quicker is better. I have one machine with an RX-480 GPU and it is OK, but the other has a GTX-1060 and it works a lot better for me (although some say the NVIDIA cards can be difficult). But the 480 was a lot cheaper and still works well. My advice would be be to use a decent GPU, but one your budget can afford.
GPU plotting is fast enough that it outpaces the speed at which data can be written to a drive. You can actually have the plotter calculate for several drives at once and write to the drives in parallel.The GPU needs an allotment of RAM for each drive and more RAM for larger stagger sizes as well. For that reason I'd say get all the RAM you can, without getting silly. I have 16GB in my miner and am expanding my plotting rig from 10GB to 16GB or perhaps a bit more.
Yes, you can mix internal and external drives. I filled up my miner with five x 6TB SATA III, 7200 RPM internals. Everything else is external, all on USB 3.0 connections. USB 2.0 or less is too slow: don't use it!
The externals can cost less, so you can get more plotted space for less money. Mine are all Seagate 5Tb or 8TB externals, 5400 RPM, and are a kind of drive known as SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording). This makes the drives cheaper, but VERY slow to plot. Mining speed is fine. I'm not independently wealthy, so cheap, slow plotting drives work for me. I actually plot to faster internal drives and then copy the finished plot files to the SMR drives. These long, continuous writes are much faster than the intermittent plotting writes when it comes to SMR drives.
Your miner will scan faster with optimized plots. You can plot normal plots and then optimize them or you can directly create optimized plots. I do the latter. I fill my drives as full as I can with plot files and I use multiple files per drive so that the plot files are between 2 to 3 TB each. There is no speed penalty for multiple files versus one large file. I've had the plotting software fail on larger plots, but never on files around 2TB.
A given USB controller only has so much bandwidth, and all of the drives plugged into it share that bandwidth. The mining software will access the drives in parallel, so things slow down as you add more and more drives. I've got too many on one card right now. When I had four externals, I was reading all my drives in about 15 seconds. With nine, it now takes 20 to 30 seconds. I'm plotting three more, so I'm sure it will just plain crawl with twelve drives.
The solution is to divide the drives up between multiple USB controllers. I'd like to see no more than four drives per controller. There are PCIEx1 cards that will give you one extra USB controller. There is at least one PCIEx4 card out there with four separate controllers. The key is having the right motherboard with the right expansion slots. Speaking of this, you can also get expansion cards that will give you extra SATA/SAS ports so you can add extra internal drives too. Of course you need enough drive bays and a PSU that can supply the needed power. And, again, you need the right motherboard expansion ports.
You can also use multiple PCs to mine; all of them looking at one wallet server running on one machine. I haven't done this yet, but it is my next step since my miner is pretty well out of expansion options. There are how-to's out there for implementing this.
That's it for me right now. I'm crazy tired. I'm afraid to even proof-read what I wrote. Sorry if it rambles on! I'm sure others can provide you more detailed information. The main thing is to dive in and get started. Everything can be upgraded down the road, but even a modest rig can get you earning some coins. Good luck! I'm off to bed...
@ChuckNorris said in My 1/2 PetaByte:
Still setting up
Currently plotting
I'm insanely jealous. Excited for you though. Way cool!
@crowetic Good news. Thanks!
It's been fun mining on the beta site this week with a handful of others (five hands full as of right now). The site looks good and seems to be working well. It just needs one thing: a LOT more miners!
Hopefully your announcement will convince the old miners to return and potential new miners to try it out.
Come give it a shot people: when more hands stir the pot, more coins fall out!
@crowetic, yeah, I was just about to post that the explorer link doesn't work and is, well, odd, considering where it points. Other than some graphics oddities now and then the site does seem to be working well. And I like the new layout.
It looks like people are slowly coming on board too; we are up to 23 this morning. That's two or three times where it was a few days ago. I'm guessing somewhere about 50 to 75 miners and the block wins will start to look more normal for a pool. At that point I'm sure people will pile on.
@TMag123 I started in February with 5TB, then quickly went to 17TB then 29TB. After a few externals I was right around 50 TB and mined approximately 50,000 coins in a month. I'm now up to 72TB and will finish plotting another 8TB external tonight. I've one more 8TB after that, then I need to go buy a couple more. My goal is 100+TB by July.
Just keep adding a bit as you can afford it. It's kinda cool to see you earnings increase as you add more drives...especially as the coin value goes up!
Good luck!
@TMag123, congratulations! By the way, I use a 1060 too. You'll like it. Now mine some coins!!!
@TMag123, from jminer plotpaths documentation: plotPaths=D:/,C:/,E:/plots,F:/plots
You might try removing the spaces and swapping your slash character.
@TMag123, my old eyes can barely see the picture, but I think I see I:burstplots. How are you listing the drives in your batch file for JMiner? I think you want I:\BurstPlots or I:\BurstPlots\. I do not use the folders, so my entries are C:\, D:\, E:\,...