Yeah... that's one of the reasons I included htop, so they can monitor and make that decision themselves... weird how 80% becomes <20% on quadcores, but you can't use 380% as a parameter.
Topic: [XPM] Install and Run Primecoin High Performance Linux on BAMT 1.1 for Litecoin (Read 2027 times)
August 16, 2013, 09:43:57 AM
Right on! Yeah, feel free to use the idea! Yeah, with so many great minds there's bound to be a duplication if work. That's one of the things I love about the crypto-mining community... lotta helpful folks
Yeah... that's one of the reasons I included htop, so they can monitor and make that decision themselves... weird how 80% becomes <20% on quadcores, but you can't use 380% as a parameter.
Yeah... that's one of the reasons I included htop, so they can monitor and make that decision themselves... weird how 80% becomes <20% on quadcores, but you can't use 380% as a parameter.
August 16, 2013, 09:36:58 AM
Hey! Glad to see a primecoin guide being written.
I wrote one a while back and I've made a few tweaks to some of the default scripts mikaelh made.
Feel free to borrow any of the code from it.
edit: Here's a direct link to the script for easy access.
edit2: I might steal your idea of cpulimit if that's alright. Some VPS don't like people maxxing out CPU usage, so having a means of throttling it may be a good thing.
edit3: Just a note, you probably don't need to set genproclimit if you're going to use cpulimit. If you're using 3 of 4 cores, you'll never have it go above 75% usage.
I wrote one a while back and I've made a few tweaks to some of the default scripts mikaelh made.
Feel free to borrow any of the code from it.
edit: Here's a direct link to the script for easy access.
edit2: I might steal your idea of cpulimit if that's alright. Some VPS don't like people maxxing out CPU usage, so having a means of throttling it may be a good thing.
edit3: Just a note, you probably don't need to set genproclimit if you're going to use cpulimit. If you're using 3 of 4 cores, you'll never have it go above 75% usage.
August 16, 2013, 09:23:50 AM
Hello!
I was having issues installing Primecoind HP9 on my LitecoinBAMT1.1 rigs, and ended up working through it. I know that a lot of you might be having the same problems, so I've listed my install and config steps that are a slight variation of the Ubuntu 13.04 and CentOS 6.4 instructions by mikaelh.
On a fresh image of BAMT 1.1 by bee, do the following steps:
Step 1. Installing the required dependencies
Starting with installing htop to monitor system resources and cpulimit to throttle so the performance of your GPU mining doesn't take a hit:
Installing Lib:
Step 2. Compiling GMP
Step 3. Compiling primecoind
Step 4. Configuration
Replace genproclimit=[number] with the number of cores you have on your rig. (I recommend using one less than the number if you don't want to use CPUlimit or if you have a multi-core system, hence 3 because I'm on a quad-core)
Creating run, stop and watch scripts to make for easy management:
Step 5. Starting mining
Type the following to start mining:
If you want to throttle the process, use this code or incorporate cpulimit into your run-primcoind script above:
Step 6. Monitoring the progress
Type this to check the mining status:
Step 7. Stopping mining
Type this to stop mining:
That's it, you should be up and going mining 2 currencies at once with your rig!... Thanks for listening!
Inspiration for this guide was derived from Mikaelh's guide located here.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/xpm-primecoin-high-performance-linux-compilation-guide-259022
Please support the hard work!
Support:
bee for the awesome updated BAMT 1.1 distro: LRHxoNPBSVYhQL8u9cvVzdkJo7vvyhBDCE
mikaelh for HP9 and Original Linux Compilation Guide: 1FR6QG6n1ozSsokGGp2kkpt7eHrgs23QxQ
And if you want to throw a few XPM my way because this helped you out: AKH7wdkQYPZsc7WgdQRaabzHK17f8Q5EAc
I was having issues installing Primecoind HP9 on my LitecoinBAMT1.1 rigs, and ended up working through it. I know that a lot of you might be having the same problems, so I've listed my install and config steps that are a slight variation of the Ubuntu 13.04 and CentOS 6.4 instructions by mikaelh.
On a fresh image of BAMT 1.1 by bee, do the following steps:
Step 1. Installing the required dependencies
Starting with installing htop to monitor system resources and cpulimit to throttle so the performance of your GPU mining doesn't take a hit:
Code:
sudo su
aptitude install cpulimit
sudo apt-get install htop
aptitude install cpulimit
sudo apt-get install htop
Installing Lib:
Code:
apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libboost-all-dev libdb4.8++-dev -y
Step 2. Compiling GMP
Code:
apt-get install libgmp3-dev
Step 3. Compiling primecoind
Code:
wget -O primecoin-0.1.2-hp9.tar.bz2 "http://sourceforge.net/projects/primecoin-hp/files/0.1.2-hp9/primecoin-0.1.2-hp9.tar.bz2"
tar -xvjf primecoin-0.1.2-hp9.tar.bz2
mv primecoin-0.1.2-hp9 primecoin
cd primecoin/src
make -f makefile.unix USE_UPNP=-
tar -xvjf primecoin-0.1.2-hp9.tar.bz2
mv primecoin-0.1.2-hp9 primecoin
cd primecoin/src
make -f makefile.unix USE_UPNP=-
Step 4. Configuration
Replace genproclimit=[number] with the number of cores you have on your rig. (I recommend using one less than the number if you don't want to use CPUlimit or if you have a multi-core system, hence 3 because I'm on a quad-core)
Code:
mkdir ~/.primecoin
echo "rpcuser=USER
rpcpassword=PASSWORD
gen=1
genproclimit=3
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1" > ~/.primecoin/primecoin.conf
echo "rpcuser=USER
rpcpassword=PASSWORD
gen=1
genproclimit=3
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1" > ~/.primecoin/primecoin.conf
Code:
sudo mv primecoind /usr/local/bin/.
Creating run, stop and watch scripts to make for easy management:
Code:
cd
echo '#!/bin/bash
export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"
killall --older-than 10s -q run-primecoind primecoind
function background_loop
while :; do
primecoind >/dev/null 2>&1
sleep 1
done
background_loop &' > run-primecoind
chmod +x run-primecoind
echo '#!/bin/bash
export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"
killall --older-than 10s -q run-primecoind primecoind
function background_loop
while :; do
primecoind >/dev/null 2>&1
sleep 1
done
background_loop &' > run-primecoind
chmod +x run-primecoind
Code:
cd
echo '#!/bin/bash
killall -q run-primecoind
primecoind stop' > stop-primecoind
chmod +x stop-primecoind
echo '#!/bin/bash
killall -q run-primecoind
primecoind stop' > stop-primecoind
chmod +x stop-primecoind
Code:
cd
echo '#!/bin/bash'
watch -n 5 'primecoind getmininginfo & primecoind listaccounts & primecoind getconnectioncount & primecoind listtransactions' > watch-primecoind
chmod +x watch-primecoind
echo '#!/bin/bash'
watch -n 5 'primecoind getmininginfo & primecoind listaccounts & primecoind getconnectioncount & primecoind listtransactions' > watch-primecoind
chmod +x watch-primecoind
Step 5. Starting mining
Type the following to start mining:
Code:
./run-primecoind
If you want to throttle the process, use this code or incorporate cpulimit into your run-primcoind script above:
Code:
cpulimit -e primecoind -l 90 &
This let's you still have 10% of your processing to feed your OS and GPUs.Step 6. Monitoring the progress
Type this to check the mining status:
Code:
./watch-primecoind
Step 7. Stopping mining
Type this to stop mining:
Code:
./stop-primecoind
That's it, you should be up and going mining 2 currencies at once with your rig!... Thanks for listening!
Inspiration for this guide was derived from Mikaelh's guide located here.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/xpm-primecoin-high-performance-linux-compilation-guide-259022
Please support the hard work!
Support:
bee for the awesome updated BAMT 1.1 distro: LRHxoNPBSVYhQL8u9cvVzdkJo7vvyhBDCE
mikaelh for HP9 and Original Linux Compilation Guide: 1FR6QG6n1ozSsokGGp2kkpt7eHrgs23QxQ
And if you want to throw a few XPM my way because this helped you out: AKH7wdkQYPZsc7WgdQRaabzHK17f8Q5EAc
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