and still not clear about paying. i need to be online every solved block to send stats? if i miss block i will not get paid?, or i need to be online only when superblock is processing?
i need to know what must be doing what and what happens if i will be off for half of day or so... maybe not only me, as there is many people who turn off their computer over night
Can you post your 'getmininginfo'?
When the wallet starts, it automatically starts mining with one thread and with a 'minersleep' of 250ms.
The minersleep is there so that less cpu power is used. It means the wallet mines 250ms, then sleeps 250ms, then mines 250ms again, etc.
This is to lessen heat mining impact, and also ensures that Boinc keeps on running on computers where both the wallet and Boinc are installed (Boinc halts computing when too many other processes use cpu-cycles).
Setting minersleep=0 will turn off the sleep function and you can mine full power again.
You can experiment with the max CPU usage by using the command 'setgenerate true NUMBER', in which NUMBER stands for the number of threads that you want to use (e.g. 'setgenerate true 8').
About the payment: there is a daily payment, but the network will have to know that you have worked in that 24 hours. If I understand correctly the wallet will automatically send a 'PODC update' every day to ensure that the network knows that you have done work. If it's unable to do that (because the computer is offline) you will miss a payment (again, if I understand correctly).
An alternative might be to open up your wallet once a day and manually send a 'PODC update'. You can do that with the command 'exec podcupdate'. But I'm nog sure about this! I don't know exactly if you also have to be mining, so please don't take these last words as truth. I'm just a guy to participated in testnet for the last few weeks. All the information I provide has been available to anyone who took the time to read about PoDC.
minersleep works... now it takes all 24 cores. i hope that it will not goes to 0 after few minutes
if it is enough to have wallet online for some time per day, it is ok. i was just affraid of not getting reward if i will be off lets say 10 minutes right in time when something happens
i just found another mandatory setting
"Warning": "CPID xy not in team Biblepay. This CPID is not receiving rewards for cancer research.",
so it seems you must be in biblepay tem to get rewards
Ah, yes. I've clarified the wiki to make it state more clearly that you need to be part of Team Biblepay to be able to receive rewards:
http://wiki.biblepay.org/Distributed_Computing_2
I'll wait for Togo to clarify the walk-through even more.
But in your Rosetta account settings, you have to join team 'Biblepay'.
About the wallet-online thing: 10 minutes or several hours probably won't make a difference, and you can always use the 'exec podcupdate' command after you were offline to make your wallet update your status. But I can't give you a technical answer to this question. Rob will have to answer that.
The PODC system supports dynamic back off changes if we get too big (IE over 32767 researchers) but for now for all intents and purposes here are the current parameters for PODC mining PODC Updates:
- After mining for 30 minutes the client sends a PODC Update, but only if the network needs one
- The client tries again every 8 hours *if* tasks have changed (this is for our Rosetta PODC Integrity feature, where we reconcile running task timestamps to UTXOs)
- The client sends a new PODC update within 24 hours, minimum
- The client will also send a PODC update within 4 hours of the deadline before your UTXO weight runs out