Topic: [XPM] [ANN] Primecoin High Performance | HP14 released! - page 79. (Read 397616 times)

I think no one will share what they use...many say private vps provider and that's about it, so they can keep getting 40 blocks per day.

I'm running 20 8-cores, or about 100K PPS.

What are you running at DO ? With the 10$ droplets I get 600pps (sievesize=1M, sieve%age=8) which will not pay for itself mining.
I think vps mining was good last weeks but not anymore. Maybe amazon EC2 with high cpu option but those cost quite a lot !

git clone https://bitbucket.org/mikaelh/primecoin-hp

Is HP6

Or maybe a solid dedicated server?

Can anyone recommend another good VPS provider? I max out my droplets at DO...

not yet on git

In case you're wondering... here's the code to update to HP6

UPDATE TO HP6
primecoind stop
wget -O primecoin-0.1.1-hp6.tar.bz2 "http://sourceforge.net/projects/primecoin-hp/files/0.1.1-hp6/primecoin-0.1.1-hp6.tar.bz2"
tar -xvjf primecoin-0.1.1-hp6.tar.bz2
rm -rf ~/primecoin
mv primecoin-0.1.1-hp6 primecoin
cd ~/primecoin/src
make -f makefile.unix USE_UPNP=-

sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/primecoind
sudo mv primecoind /usr/local/bin/.

killall primecoind
cd
./run-primecoind
watch -n 5 'primecoind getmininginfo & primecoind listaccounts'

Increased PPS 1K-2K. Did not increase CPM for me (i7 860 @ 3.22 quad). 0 blocks 12 hrs.

Edit : Tried on testnet, it was the worst results I've seen yet. 1 block in 5 min, gave up.

Other notes (updating) ...
sieve% above 15 crashes client on testnet as soon as mining starts.

SS : 4000000 S% : 15% = 3 BPM
SS : 4000000 S% : 14% = 40 CPM, 6600 PPS, 3+ BPM  <-- sweet spot so far. Ended up beating best HP5 setting by a little after 10 min. Does not work on mainnet for me.
SS : 4000000 S% : 13% = 2.3 BPM
SS : 4000000 S% : 11% = 37 CPM, 6800 PPS, 2.6 BPM
SS : 2000000 S% : 14% = 36 CPM, 7284 PPS, 2.0 BPM  Works on mainnet @ 1849 PPS, 12 CPM (highest I've seen so far).
SS : 2200000 S% : 14% = 44 CPM, 7079 PPS, 2.1 BPM  Works on mainnet @ 1835, 10 CPM (highest so far)

Over a longer period of time the above settings may equal out. 15% gave block spurts of 4-6 @ a time, while 14% gave steady blocks over entire time and "appeared" faster due to this lack of stalls between blocks.

Update : Once again settings that work fine on testnet shut down the client immediately upon mining.  It's the 4M setting which works fine for HP5. I'm going to try to find the max sievesize for my i7 again since it appears to be lower for HP6 than HP5 (is this due to the higher difficulty or difference in builds?). Update 2 : The highest sievesize I can get on mainnet (i7 quad) is 2200000.

Observation : Higher sievesize settings always increased blocks per minute in HP5 & HP6. Adjusting sieve% also affected BPM's and it has sweet spots as you can see above. I recommend finding the highest sievesize first (that will work on  mainnet for you), then adjust sieve% for best results (on testnet) to find your sweet spot. Anything above 2200000 would shut the client down immediately in HP6 (for my i7 quad).

Since it appears (to me at least) that a larger sievesize increases BPM's, I will mention that HP3 gave 2 BPM (in 10 min runs) on testnet with SS : 6553600 and this will work on mainnet. However, I'm not positive that large of a sievesize was even supported in HP3 and it may be going to a default setting. However, with that in mind I set the sievesize to the default and results were much worse.

my hp5 win 8 64 qt clients were crashing on open (since diff 9 maybe) when I upgraded to hp6 it would still crash right away, but I had sievesize at 4000000 in conf; removed that (or set to 1M) and it runs and mines just fine on all machines.  would like to know good settings.

Nothing found since hp6, and using 2 i7 laptops running ~4kpps (300-840 5-chains/h) each on same wallet

Lately it's just trickle, like one every other day if lucky:

2013-07-20T23:46:31   Mined   12.34
2013-07-20T08:33:30   Mined   12.35
2013-07-18T04:36:15   Mined   12.52
2013-07-16T10:59:58   Mined   12.54
2013-07-15T21:51:30   Mined   12.62
2013-07-15T21:46:54   Mined   12.62
2013-07-15T19:59:33   Mined   12.65
2013-07-15T05:53:27   Mined   12.80
2013-07-14T11:52:08   Mined   13.47
2013-07-14T07:52:02   Mined   14.08
2013-07-14T00:49:44   Mined   15.63

As far as as I can say it runs better, but I've had one crash on Windows 7 64-Bit (Phenom 2 X4 955 -> 4 cores):
I can add a screenshot, but I thought text that can be searched for by other users might be needful

Not likely...  i have found many blocks, but less then one a day for the last 4 days.  it is just getting that much more difficult!

edit:  ( I turn the rigs down to about 7-8k during the heat of the day )

is a gpu miner out?

any word?

Or, we could just have things set up incorrectly.

2M sievesize mandatory now?

It's not free to run that many pps. This morning it was looking like I might not beat my costs by that much. I know how it looks though

Question. Any way to change sieve % in Debug console (Windows QT)?

If you followed Mikaelh's build instructions then you have a script running that restarts primecoind when you kill it. You need to kill the run-primecoin script first then primecoind.

Find the script that is restarting it and kill it using "kill pid".

Same thing over, and over again. I have killed it, and hes coming back.