I'm still struggling with win7 64bit and it's memory insanity. Does win 8 have same issues as win7?
keep hitting "File xxxxxxxxxxx locked?" messages and as a result not 100% of files are read.
When your miner gets this condition/error, could you have that specific thread pause for x number of seconds and then retry the same file where it left off?
I think maybe a parameter in the config file: "ThreadWait" : 5, (5 seconds) would work nicely. parameter with value of 0 could be used to indicate not using this approach as default.
as other drives finish reading, memory becomes available and previous "file locked" threads can resume since memory is available. this all happens in the span of 5-15 seconds and pausing wouldn't effect the majority of mining time.
i can't think of another way to deal with this on win7.
I will purposefully re-plot some files/drives (strategically) to have some control over the order in which miner will finish reading all drives and not have the insane memory issues on win7.
What do you think about adding this option? or maybe there's another way to achieve similar control?
[miner]new update
miner-burst-1.141101https://www.dropbox.com/s/1ezxwhnjhkl2eyz/miner-burst-1.141101.zip?dl=0changes:
* Minor cosmetic changes
- Options "UseResponseMaxTime" and "ResponseMaxTime" removed (no longer used in non-blocking sockets)
* Updater now in separate thread
* Added option "ProxyPort"
My config for host:
{
"Mode" : "pool",
"Server" : "pool.burstcoin.io",
"Port": 80,
"UpdaterAddr" : "pool.burstcoin.io",
"UpdaterPort": 8124,
"EnableProxy": true,
"ProxyPort": 8126,
"Paths":["C:\\plots","D:\\plots","E:\\plots","G:\\plots","H:\\plots","F:\\plots","I:\\plots"],
"CacheSize" : 200000,
"ShowMsg" : false ,
"ShowUpdates" : false,
"UseSorting" : true,
"Debug": false,
"UseFastRcv" : true,
"SendInterval": 100,
"UpdateInterval": 2000
} Config for satellite:
{
"Mode" : "pool",
"Server" : "192.168.1.33",
"Port": 8126,
"UpdaterAddr" : "192.168.1.33",
"UpdaterPort": 8126,
"Paths":["C:\\plots\\","D:\\plots\\","E:\\plots\\","F:\\plots\\","G:\\plots\\"],
"CacheSize" : 100000,
"ShowMsg" : false ,
"ShowUpdates" : false,
"UseSorting" : true,
"UseFastRcv" : false,
"SendInterval": 50,
"UpdateInterval": 3000
} src:
https://github.com/Blagodarenko/miner-burst/ 
