How many staking wallets is too much for a computer?

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Quote from: bit tired on July 02, 2015, 08:34:06 AM

Quote from: billotronic on July 02, 2015, 07:26:38 AM

Quote from: HCLivess on July 02, 2015, 05:57:26 AM

Quote from: billotronic on July 01, 2015, 02:09:12 PM

What are the specs of the box?

If you REALLY want to go pro with staking, I HIGHLY recommend looking at Odroid U3 with an eMMC card. Those little puppies will run many wallets no problem and are practically set and forget if you are just looking to stake and compound. If you are patient, the odroid C1 is super sexy as well, but they are hard to come by right now and you have to preorder one if you can wait. Even if the U3 or C1 might be over kill, low power arm boards are definitely the way to go for PoS.

Warning, you will need to compile for ARM and often it is pain in the ass. Some coins will not even compile.
Also, they are low on memory for long-term use with insufficient processors for staking higher amounts.
Talking from personal experience with something based on cubietruck (Octacore+4GB RAM) (https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/28625-devices-for-staking/)

I might be looking for something like this in the future: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/2015-New-Thin-Client-Mini-Computer-Intel-i5-4200U-CPU-8GB-RAM-120GB-SSD-4-USB3/1995516355.html preferably Skylake or better

But then, I'm a megalomaniac

Also, I HIGHLY ADVISE AGAINST EMMC integrated memory, it cannot handle small files quickly enough. For example running a NXT node from EMMC/FLASH is a terrible experience, including the responsiveness of the interface. Aim for SSD / standard HDD

also, Raspberry Pi is the least problematic and perhaps cheapest, although the memory isnt particularly high. Also keep in mind that those things do not have BIOS so alternative booting for disk formatting etc. may leave you stuck

lol really? SD cards are notorious for data corruption, how is a Pi the least problematic?

And your bashing of eMMC is based off of running NXT and not any sort of technical information? Fuck me, I didn't know it was opposite day already...

Nobody has recommended using a BeagleBone yet. I recently heard about them but I'm not familiar enough with them to compare them to other alternatives like the pi. Are they any better or worse than the other alternatives for running staking wallets? I think they have better specs than a pi but cost more.

No, thats about it. Going from memory, the pro for the beaglebones was/were that the hardware was 100% open source whereas the pi's had parts that where not (GFX?)

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Quote from: billotronic on July 02, 2015, 07:26:38 AM

Quote from: HCLivess on July 02, 2015, 05:57:26 AM

Quote from: billotronic on July 01, 2015, 02:09:12 PM

What are the specs of the box?

If you REALLY want to go pro with staking, I HIGHLY recommend looking at Odroid U3 with an eMMC card. Those little puppies will run many wallets no problem and are practically set and forget if you are just looking to stake and compound. If you are patient, the odroid C1 is super sexy as well, but they are hard to come by right now and you have to preorder one if you can wait. Even if the U3 or C1 might be over kill, low power arm boards are definitely the way to go for PoS.

Warning, you will need to compile for ARM and often it is pain in the ass. Some coins will not even compile.
Also, they are low on memory for long-term use with insufficient processors for staking higher amounts.
Talking from personal experience with something based on cubietruck (Octacore+4GB RAM) (https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/28625-devices-for-staking/)

I might be looking for something like this in the future: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/2015-New-Thin-Client-Mini-Computer-Intel-i5-4200U-CPU-8GB-RAM-120GB-SSD-4-USB3/1995516355.html preferably Skylake or better

But then, I'm a megalomaniac

Also, I HIGHLY ADVISE AGAINST EMMC integrated memory, it cannot handle small files quickly enough. For example running a NXT node from EMMC/FLASH is a terrible experience, including the responsiveness of the interface. Aim for SSD / standard HDD

also, Raspberry Pi is the least problematic and perhaps cheapest, although the memory isnt particularly high. Also keep in mind that those things do not have BIOS so alternative booting for disk formatting etc. may leave you stuck

lol really? SD cards are notorious for data corruption, how is a Pi the least problematic?

And your bashing of eMMC is based off of running NXT and not any sort of technical information? Fuck me, I didn't know it was opposite day already...

Nobody has recommended using a BeagleBone yet. I recently heard about them but I'm not familiar enough with them to compare them to other alternatives like the pi. Are they any better or worse than the other alternatives for running staking wallets? I think they have better specs than a pi but cost more.

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Quote from: HCLivess on July 02, 2015, 05:57:26 AM

Quote from: billotronic on July 01, 2015, 02:09:12 PM

What are the specs of the box?

If you REALLY want to go pro with staking, I HIGHLY recommend looking at Odroid U3 with an eMMC card. Those little puppies will run many wallets no problem and are practically set and forget if you are just looking to stake and compound. If you are patient, the odroid C1 is super sexy as well, but they are hard to come by right now and you have to preorder one if you can wait. Even if the U3 or C1 might be over kill, low power arm boards are definitely the way to go for PoS.

Warning, you will need to compile for ARM and often it is pain in the ass. Some coins will not even compile.
Also, they are low on memory for long-term use with insufficient processors for staking higher amounts.
Talking from personal experience with something based on cubietruck (Octacore+4GB RAM) (https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/28625-devices-for-staking/)

I might be looking for something like this in the future: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/2015-New-Thin-Client-Mini-Computer-Intel-i5-4200U-CPU-8GB-RAM-120GB-SSD-4-USB3/1995516355.html preferably Skylake or better

But then, I'm a megalomaniac

Also, I HIGHLY ADVISE AGAINST EMMC integrated memory, it cannot handle small files quickly enough. For example running a NXT node from EMMC/FLASH is a terrible experience, including the responsiveness of the interface. Aim for SSD / standard HDD

also, Raspberry Pi is the least problematic and perhaps cheapest, although the memory isnt particularly high. Also keep in mind that those things do not have BIOS so alternative booting for disk formatting etc. may leave you stuck

lol really? SD cards are notorious for data corruption, how is a Pi the least problematic?

And your bashing of eMMC is based off of running NXT and not any sort of technical information? Fuck me, I didn't know it was opposite day already...

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Quote from: billotronic on July 01, 2015, 02:09:12 PM

What are the specs of the box?

If you REALLY want to go pro with staking, I HIGHLY recommend looking at Odroid U3 with an eMMC card. Those little puppies will run many wallets no problem and are practically set and forget if you are just looking to stake and compound. If you are patient, the odroid C1 is super sexy as well, but they are hard to come by right now and you have to preorder one if you can wait. Even if the U3 or C1 might be over kill, low power arm boards are definitely the way to go for PoS.

Warning, you will need to compile for ARM and often it is pain in the ass. Some coins will not even compile.
Also, they are low on memory for long-term use with insufficient processors for staking higher amounts.
Talking from personal experience with something based on cubietruck (Octacore+4GB RAM) (https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/28625-devices-for-staking/)

I might be looking for something like this in the future: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/2015-New-Thin-Client-Mini-Computer-Intel-i5-4200U-CPU-8GB-RAM-120GB-SSD-4-USB3/1995516355.html preferably Skylake or better

But then, I'm a megalomaniac

Also, I HIGHLY ADVISE AGAINST EMMC integrated memory, it cannot handle small files quickly enough. For example running a NXT node from EMMC/FLASH is a terrible experience, including the responsiveness of the interface. Aim for SSD / standard HDD

also, Raspberry Pi is the least problematic and perhaps cheapest, although the memory isnt particularly high. Also keep in mind that those things do not have BIOS so alternative booting for disk formatting etc. may leave you stuck

HCLivess

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Haswell - 3 coins
Core 2 Duo - 1 coin

depends on many aspects however

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Quote from: altcoinhosting on July 01, 2015, 11:41:09 PM

Quote from: NorrisK on July 01, 2015, 03:07:36 PM

Do you really need to run your wallets full time? Maybe you can write a script to close the client after it stakes and reopen it a couple of days later?

I'm pretty new at this myself, but doesn't your wallet have to stay open? I had some XMG for several weeks in a closed wallet, and my weight was 0 for the first couple of hours after i opened my wallet when i first tried to stake...

It depends on the POS coin, some of them let you stake your coins quite quickly , and then you can turn off the wallet for a few weeks. Others make you keep your wallet open 24/7 to stake the most coins possible. In addition, some coins are better coded than others and are less CPU intensive.

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Quote from: NorrisK on July 01, 2015, 03:07:36 PM

Do you really need to run your wallets full time? Maybe you can write a script to close the client after it stakes and reopen it a couple of days later?

I'm pretty new at this myself, but doesn't your wallet have to stay open? I had some XMG for several weeks in a closed wallet, and my weight was 0 for the first couple of hours after i opened my wallet when i first tried to stake...

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Do you really need to run your wallets full time? Maybe you can write a script to close the client after it stakes and reopen it a couple of days later?

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What are the specs of the box?

If you REALLY want to go pro with staking, I HIGHLY recommend looking at Odroid U3 with an eMMC card. Those little puppies will run many wallets no problem and are practically set and forget if you are just looking to stake and compound. If you are patient, the odroid C1 is super sexy as well, but they are hard to come by right now and you have to preorder one if you can wait. Even if the U3 or C1 might be over kill, low power arm boards are definitely the way to go for PoS.

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i would say not more than 4-5 Clients at the same time.

Keep in mind that the Cpu is not the only problem.
The Hardisk has extra load if too much Clients work at the same time.

But the best way is to try it out.

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Thanks! Trying for under 60% cpu don't wanna screw up computer worth way more than my alts lol

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I guess it will also depend on what you're using your computer for.

If you have a rasbpi, and only use it to stake, it won't be a problem if it's crawling... If it's on your workpc, even a slight decline in performance might be bad...

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depend spec your computer , same Like Ram and Processor . may be If your computer is already noticeably slow , then that is a limit to perform staking Cheesy

. I always Buy some RDP for staking , i just stake some coin which looks good for future

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Quote from: NorrisK on July 01, 2015, 01:47:35 AM

Quote from: Allforone on July 01, 2015, 01:37:07 AM

I don't have much of it but wanna stake some of my other coins.. How many wallets is too much for a computer?

Depends on your hardware I guess..

Did you check your recource monitor? You can see how much of your cpu and RAM is in use that way.

What percent would you try and keep it under?

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Quote from: Allforone on July 01, 2015, 01:37:07 AM

I don't have much of it but wanna stake some of my other coins.. How many wallets is too much for a computer?

Depends on your hardware I guess..

Did you check your recource monitor? You can see how much of your cpu and RAM is in use that way.

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I don't have much of it but wanna stake some of my other coins.. How many wallets is too much for a computer?

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