**Quick Guide!** - How to mine Primecoin

[MeBeingAwesome]

Step #1: Download Primecoin Client here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/primecoin/files/0.1.0/

Choose either Windows or Linux version and follow the easy install steps.

Step #2: In the Primecoin client, go to "Help" > "Debug window" > "Console" tab > type "setgenerate true -1" to use all of your cores or "setgenerate true 4" to use 4 cores, etc.

Snapshot of step #2 :

Step #3: Type "getmininginfo" into the debug window to see your "primespersec" (mining rate)

Snapshot of step #3:


If you found this helpful, please donate, because I still have no coins

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Thanks

[FuzzyBear]

Download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/primecoin/files

Excellent guide btw

as soon as i mine a prime i'll send u some

[urubu]

Guide is the same as what I did.  Thanks!
I just got my first 20xpm!

[MeBeingAwesome]

Nice!! How many primespersec? I'm around 100, no blocks for me yet.

[sandakersmann]

I'am between 70 and 360 primespersec. It is jumping up and down...

Donate: ASqC8aDCB2Pgc4stp6qGVCALKsCpty5NEu

 

[urubu]

i5 3570k is at ~240
i7 4770k is at ~340
both at stock clock. i just barely got the 4770k up. also goes up and down.

[urubu]

after checking a few times, it seems that it really jumps around.  we need a program that can give a one minute average.

[MeBeingAwesome]

after checking a few times, it seems that it really jumps around.  we need a program that can give a one minute average.

Yep would be useful. I get anywhere from 30-270 right now, hard to tell how effective it actually is.

[FuzzyBear]

6 machines mining away....

1) i3 - 84-166 PPS
2) - 16 PPS
3) - 1 PPS
4) - 4 PPS
5) - 2 PPS
6) - 1 PPS

sigh my cruddy computers!! well i'll leave them running for a month or so i guess any donations are welcome

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[urubu]

I have 60 now. 
If anyone knows how, lets see an app to monitor and show an average of primespersec.  I will give a few xpm.

[sandakersmann]

Still no luck here with about 120 PPS...

[sandakersmann]

I'm looking for the "/roaming/primecoin/primecoin.conf" so I can add "gen=1" for automatic mining when I reboot the PC. Anyone that know how to do this? I can not find that file...

[coinchart]

Did as suggested in the guide... but i'm showing primepersec" :0

First time mining, what am I missing?

http://screencast.com/t/dQ1q4JcKd

[coinchart]

Check getmininginfo again and up to 17 now.   Very slow compared to other posts here.  Does it take awhile to get up to the speeds others here are posting or is it that I'm using an older computer?   (Dell Vostro 220s)   

Thanks

[MeBeingAwesome]

Check getmininginfo again and up to 17 now.   Very slow compared to other posts here.  Does it take awhile to get up to the speeds others here are posting or is it that I'm using an older computer?   (Dell Vostro 220s)   

Thanks

I've seen lots of posts of people in the single digits. Older computers will likely have slower mining speeds.

[sandakersmann]

I'm looking for the "/roaming/primecoin/primecoin.conf" so I can add "gen=1" for automatic mining when I reboot the PC. Anyone that know how to do this? I can not find that file...

I got this answer at www.bitcointalk.org:

"Just create empty .txt file and rename it to primecoin.conf. By default this file does not exist."

I have tried it and it works 

[cachito]

is there a way to use the GPU?

I get this with a Sempron 145.

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18:09:27

getmininginfo


18:09:27

{
"blocks" : 253,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : 4,
"primespersec" : 3,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false
}


[craslovell]

is there a way to use the GPU?

I get this with a Sempron 145.

Code: [Select]

18:09:27

getmininginfo


18:09:27

{
"blocks" : 253,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : 4,
"primespersec" : 3,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false
}


there won't be until someone rewrites a current gpu miner like cgminer to do it. Not sure how complex that would be, might be better to start from scratch.

[craslovell]

I will be throwing 48 to 96 CPU cores at this tomorrow morning. If all goes well there will be a giveaway thread 

[coinchart]

I'm looking for the "/roaming/primecoin/primecoin.conf" so I can add "gen=1" for automatic mining when I reboot the PC. Anyone that know how to do this? I can not find that file...

Under Settings/Options

Would the "Start Bitcoin on system login" selection accomplish the above need?

Also, What does setting the transaction fee do and if so what amount should this be set too?

Thank you.



PS. Kudos to craslovell for the generous offer!

[craslovell]

I'm looking for the "/roaming/primecoin/primecoin.conf" so I can add "gen=1" for automatic mining when I reboot the PC. Anyone that know how to do this? I can not find that file...

Under Settings/Options

Would the "Start Bitcoin on system login" selection accomplish the above need?

Also, What does setting the transaction fee do and if so what amount should this be set too?

Thank you.



PS. Kudos to craslovell for the generous offer!

Thank you, I'm hoping no big guys hop in before I get a chance to get everything running tomorrow. It will only be temporary, but I should have eight 12 core processors running at once.

[sandakersmann]

Yes. You also have to select the "Start Bitcoin on system login" selection in addition to adding "gen=1" in the "primecoin.conf" file.

[sandakersmann]

I will be throwing 48 to 96 CPU cores at this tomorrow morning. If all goes well there will be a giveaway thread 

So you are planning a 50 % attack...   

[craslovell]

I will be throwing 48 to 96 CPU cores at this tomorrow morning. If all goes well there will be a giveaway thread 

So you are planning a 50 % attack...   

Even with all 96 cores I don't think it would come very close 

[MeBeingAwesome]

I will be throwing 48 to 96 CPU cores at this tomorrow morning. If all goes well there will be a giveaway thread 

Hah, we're holding you to that. Good luck, I'm assuming it's a server farm from a workplace?

[craslovell]

I will be throwing 48 to 96 CPU cores at this tomorrow morning. If all goes well there will be a giveaway thread 

Hah, we're holding you to that. Good luck, I'm assuming it's a server farm from a workplace?

You got it, my supervisor is in to crypto as well so he mentioned that checking CPU performance out of curiosity would be ok. Like I said temporary though.

We have several servers that are each packing quad 12 core opterons. If I'm really lucky we will have 4 sitting around and I can try it out with 192 cores 

Hopefully they already have an OS loaded

[urubu]

It looks like primespersec have stabilized.  Is that due to the network stabilization or does it keep an average of that?

[AnonymousEntity]

I successfully compiled primecoind in OS X 10.8.4. I get 0-4 primespersec with an i7 1.8 GHz in Macbook Air mid-2011. Is it worth bothering at this rate?

[craslovell]

I successfully compiled primecoind in OS X 10.8.4. I get 0-4 primespersec with an i7 1.8 GHz in Macbook Air mid-2011. Is it worth bothering at this rate?

Give it some time, I believe you'll probably average out at something a little higher than that. How long have you had it running? Let it run a few days you could get a few blocks while the difficulty is relatively low.

[craslovell]

It looks like primespersec have stabilized.  Is that due to the network stabilization or does it keep an average of that?

I'm trying to figure out the same thing. My numbers continue to jump around.

[AnonymousEntity]

I successfully compiled primecoind in OS X 10.8.4. I get 0-4 primespersec with an i7 1.8 GHz in Macbook Air mid-2011. Is it worth bothering at this rate?

Give it some time, I believe you'll probably average out at something a little higher than that. How long have you had it running? Let it run a few days you could get a few blocks while the difficulty is relatively low.

Okay, just about two hours. It was up at 8, down to 5, and currently 6. Thanks!

Edit: Up to 12 and down to 10.

[craslovell]

Not a problem, good luck. I'm running mine at setgenerate true (x) where x is one less core than the CPU max.

So for my 6 core AMD I run setgenerate true 5

It seems to be giving me higher consistent primespersec, though I am gpu mining on that rig as well and if I don't exclude one core my cgminer performance hits the gutter.

[Sentinelrv]

Ok, I just started this up and did exactly what you said. I have never mined anything before, but figured I'd give it a shot. I have an Alienware M17X R3 laptop. My primespersec is so far going between 18 and 88. Does this sound right?

3 questions:
- What does primespersec mean? Does this number judge how fast you will mine coins?
- When I mine coins like this, do they just show up where it says balance?
- If CPU usage is at 100% is there any danger in just leaving my computer on all the time, like overheating?

[MUTO]

Something seems to be wrong here:

PC1 (Workstation): 1x Xeon Quadcore 3 Ghz, Win 7 -> 74-106 PPS
PC2 (Server): 2x Xeon Quadcore 2,4 Ghz, Ubuntu -> 1-15 PPS
PC3 (Server): 2x Xeon Quadcore 2,4 Ghz, Ubuntu -> 1-15 PPS
PC4:(Notebook) 1x i5 Mobile Dualcore 2,5 Ghz, Win 7 -> 3-14 PPS

While I can imagine that PC4 is simply that slow, PC2&3 should be much faster then PC1. CPU is at 100% and Primecoin the only thing running.

Does anyone have an idea what´s wrong here?

- What does primespersec mean? Does this number judge how fast you will mine coins?

Basically, yes. You have to have luck to find a block. But your chances are higher when this value is higher.

- When I mine coins like this, do they just show up where it says balance?

Yes

- If CPU usage is at 100% is there any danger in just leaving my computer on all the time, like overheating?

You should ofcourse check your CPU temp. But normally this shouldn't be a problem. If your cooler is adequate, everything is fine.

Update:

Set up PC5 (Server) with 2x Xeon X5355 2,67Ghz (Quadcore) and Win 2k8R2. Same problem here only 1-40 PPS. Way to low for 8 physical (16 virtual) cores. Wondering what could be the problem?

[AnonymousEntity]

My top rate yet is 23 primespersec, down at 2 now.

I have 60 XPM, so it's definitely worth mining with my Air. A friend with Sandy Bridge i5 3.3 GHz (desktop) has got 80 XPM in only a few hours less time. 

[coinchart]

Does the CPU keep mining when I go to bed and the computer falls into Sleep mode?

How do I keep it mining if so?


Thanks

[coinchart]

When I got to check my computer today it said that the Wallet was behind so I'm assuming it stopped mining when it went into Sleep mode. 

Can anyone confirm if this is correct and that I must set the computer never to sleep?

[Sentinelrv]

Well, it's been 10 hours and I have 19.84 XPM. Is this normal for my speed? It's been around 80-90 pps.

[dewknight]

When I got to check my computer today it said that the Wallet was behind so I'm assuming it stopped mining when it went into Sleep mode. 

Can anyone confirm if this is correct and that I must set the computer never to sleep?

When the computer sleeps it goes to a low power state and program activity stops. If you want it to continue mining, you need to set it to not sleep.

[coinchart]

So I mined some primecoin.  My first ever of any kind!  pretty exciting for me anyway.

Question:

It says they are immature and unconfirmed. 

Do I need to do anything for these to be confirmed?

Will each "find" have a different transaction address and if the transaction
address where discovered by someone else, does that mean all of these
19.73 XPM would be vunerable to theft?

[parachatt]

I'm also trying  to mine some XMP
My "hashrate" is around 200 pps
I got 19.64 XMP labelled as immature which have completely disappeared off my wallet before to be confirmed
Can someboby be so kind to explain me this issue ?
Thank in advance

[coinchart]

Mine are still showing as immature.   Not showing as unconfirmed or in balance yet. 

Could anyone comment?

[FuzzyBear]

Mine are still showing as immature.   Not showing as unconfirmed or in balance yet. 

Could anyone comment?

Mined blocks take something like 3000 confirmations for primecoin i believe.

So just wait it out and you will get your coins in your wallet soon enough

One thing u can do is see how many confirmations you have on each block u mined... go to the transactions page and hover the mouse over the block stopclock on the left hand side..... or go to the debug window and type "listtransactions" and you will see the number of confirms there.

FuzzyBear

[coinchart]

Hi Fuzzy Thanks for the responding.

Do you use the encryption method in the wallet listed under Settings or is there a better alternative you use?


Is it okay to back up and/or encrypt while you are waiting on coins to mature? 


Regards,

Adrian

[craslovell]

My plan to mine with a ton of cores fizzled today. Got one server loaded to try it with 48 cores. It was suggested that the CPU cache was not enough for all the work it was trying to do.

I tried several different methods, played with the Windows settings for L2 cache in the registry and after a two hours I had a whopping 2 primespersec on 48 cores.

Giveaway will have to wait a few weeks 

[xchrisxsays]

Hey!

I'm brand new to mining. It seems that primecoin won't synchronize all the way with the network, it's been stuck at "3 hours behind the network" for awhile now. What can I do to fix this?

Thanks!

[craslovell]

Hey!

I'm brand new to mining. It seems that primecoin won't synchronize all the way with the network, it's been stuck at "3 hours behind the network" for awhile now. What can I do to fix this?

Thanks!

Here are some good nodes I've found. Go to your program files folder where primecoin-qt.exe is. Make a text file called primecoin.bat and paste this text in to it

primecoin-qt.exe -addnode=137.116.230.21 -addnode=94.23.215.174 -addnode=87.98.146.72

When you relaunch it should synchronize fairly quickly

[craslovell]

Of course by relaunch I mean launch your primecoin.bat file.

It just calls primecoin-qt and adds the nodes in the file. should only have to do this once and it will build a peer list for you

[DudeGuy]

I successfully compiled primecoind in OS X 10.8.4. I get 0-4 primespersec with an i7 1.8 GHz in Macbook Air mid-2011. Is it worth bothering at this rate?

Can someone point me to a guide for compiling the source code and inserting your own personal extra flags?

[DudeGuy]

I successfully compiled primecoind in OS X 10.8.4. I get 0-4 primespersec with an i7 1.8 GHz in Macbook Air mid-2011. Is it worth bothering at this rate?

Use bootcamp to install Windows 7 and you'll get a much higher PPS.

[Sushi]

So I'm interested in mining from the linux command line.  What paramaters do I need to pass to primecoind to get it to startup and just do mining and the have the results go into a remote wallet?

[screaming_trees]

3930k @ 4.6GHz 12 threads under H20 around 1,000- 1,107 PPS about 10 min of mining.
{
"blocks" : 42879,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : 12,
"primespersec" : 1107,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false
}

[MUTO]

So I'm interested in mining from the linux command line.  What paramaters do I need to pass to primecoind to get it to startup and just do mining and the have the results go into a remote wallet?

+1

[FuzzyBear]

So I'm interested in mining from the linux command line.  What paramaters do I need to pass to primecoind to get it to startup and just do mining and the have the results go into a remote wallet?

+1

I wrote a guide to installing primecoin and setting up mining here http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=install_primecoin_ubuntu
will try removing the mining in the config file and try a few parameters... i imagine something like

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./primecoind --daemon -gen=1 -t4

the t4 is the number of threads

ok yep that worked and this works to

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./primecoind --daemon -gen=1


[screaming_trees]

I have been mining for over 2 hours @ 1,000+ pps and nothing? I figured I would have solved a block by now?

I updated to the High Performance client and I get 7,869 pps now.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=255782.0

[DudeGuy]

I have been mining for over 2 hours @ 1,000+ pps and nothing? I figured I would have solved a block by now?

I updated to the High Performance client and I get 7,869 pps now.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=255782.0

You should not have one yet. You'll get one soon enough.


I've been 3000 PPs for 24 hours then 40004500 for the last 24. 48 hours at 7pm eastern standard time. Nothing. I deleted the blockchain and redownloaded, use approved builds of Sunny's 0.1.1 client. Nothing. Using HP3 right now. Wish me luck.

[ericwt]

So this is all there is to it?

If I follow those steps and set the options to Start primecoin on system login, it will start every time I start the system?

I can close the debug window and open it when I want to check progress? Is that the way to see if it is working? Closing the debug window does not stop the mining?

This is to easy. I must be doing something wrong.

Sorry for the silly questions. However if this is that easy I have multiple computers to install the client on.

Also if it is this easy I can promote the heck out of Primecoin.

Thanks when I get coins I will donate to the OP

[MUTO]

So I'm interested in mining from the linux command line.  What paramaters do I need to pass to primecoind to get it to startup and just do mining and the have the results go into a remote wallet?

+1

I wrote a guide to installing primecoin and setting up mining here http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=install_primecoin_ubuntu
[...]

Thanks for your answer. Starting mining is not the problem (for me). I am wondering if it´s posible to get the XPM send to a remote wallet automaticaly  and directly when found. I guess this is not posibble till there is an ecternal CPU miner ?

[glassuser]

So this is all there is to it?

If I follow those steps and set the options to Start primecoin on system login, it will start every time I start the system?

I can close the debug window and open it when I want to check progress? Is that the way to see if it is working? Closing the debug window does not stop the mining?

This is to easy. I must be doing something wrong.

Sorry for the silly questions. However if this is that easy I have multiple computers to install the client on.

Also if it is this easy I can promote the heck out of Primecoin.

Thanks when I get coins I will donate to the OP

I agree, is that all i need to do? I followed the OPs guideline and mine says its hashing at 32PPS, do i just leave it running?

I'm new so I look forward to hearing more about this

[ericwt]

glassuser, yes just leave the client running. You got it.

As far as anything else I do not have much of a clue. But it is fun to learn new things.

We can be the token "newbies" on this forum. Every forum needs clueless newbies. like us

[glassuser]

glassuser, yes just leave the client running. You got it.

As far as anything else I do not have much of a clue. But it is fun to learn new things.

We can be the token "newbies" on this forum. Every forum needs clueless newbies. like us

haha awesome! glad to be part of the community, this is the first time ive mined anything ive been buying bitcoins for awhile now and figured i try out new virtual currencies. I like primecoin the best

Btw I saw that primecoin mining serves a real purpose, anyone care to explain how us mining for prime numbers will help anyone? just curious

[glassuser]

So I have 5 computers mining now 3 quad cores and 2 dual cores, lets see what happens!

[ericwt]

glassuser, the best reference I know is the paper.

http://ppcoin.org/static/primecoin-paper.pdf

Now the best thing for both of us to do is read the paper and read this forum and others by posters who know what they are doing.

[glassuser]

thanks for that, here is a big thread in bitcointalk about it also https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=251850.0 published July 7, 2013, not too long ago

[ericwt]

glassuser, yes I am reading that and others.

The cool thing is I am starting to understand.

Next I try the high performance version of Sunny King's Primecoin client. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=255782.0

Wish you many coins.

[glassuser]

oh yea is this new client better than the one the OP used in this thread?

[ericwt]

I have no idea. I will have to test it. Remember, clueless newbie here. Besides we should stay on the topic of the thread the OP had in mind.

Start a newbie thread on this forum and I am there

oh yea is this new client better than the one the OP used in this thread?

[glassuser]

haha alright, I just tested it and it works, much faster i would say around 10 times faster.

I went ahead and made a newbie thread for us to talk more http://ppcointalk.org/index.php?topic=373.new#new

[rmhuntley]

I"m kind of confused about the process of payouts, so please bare with me. I"m got my miner set up and chugging away(I think, see output below). How do I tell how many blocks I"ve gone through, if I"ve found any, and how does payout actually work?


{
"blocks" : 55627,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : -1,
"primespersec" : 1203,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false
}

[craslovell]

Hi rmhuntley,

Yes, you are mining right now. The "primepersec" value shows that your CPU is actively working (anything higher than 0 and it is mining).

Do you know which client version you downloaded? It may be best to use the official client for now, located in Sunny King's release thread here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=251850.0

You should see it right in the first post.

The "blocks" value you see is showing you what block number the network as a whole is on. So everyone was working on block 55,627 at the time you typed "getmininginfo" for your post above.

When you actually mine a block, you will probably see a little pop-up on the bottom right of your screen telling you that you've mined a block and the amount of coins the block contained. You will also be able to see this output in your wallet overview and transactions. When you find a block, it will take another 3200 blocks mined by the network until your block is no longer in an "immature" state and can be used however you would like. At that point, it will move out of the immature column and in to your balance column in the wallet.

Just keep on mining and believe me, you will know when you find your first block 

[rmhuntley]

looks like I"m using v0.1.1-unk beta

[aim7]

my very 1st time to mine any coin. using new client via my i7 laptop only. I thought it will at least make the fan noisy? nothing unusual though. I will leave it overnight and see if ever anything can happen.......

{
"blocks" : 65118,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : -1,
"primespersec" : 3855,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false
}

[craslovell]

my very 1st time to mine any coin. using new client via my i7 laptop only. I thought it will at least make the fan noisy? nothing unusual though. I will leave it overnight and see if ever anything can happen.......

{
"blocks" : 65118,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : -1,
"primespersec" : 3855,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false
}

Exciting stuff, I wish you luck. Maybe you will wake up to a block found 

[aim7]

i found this morning my laptop just auto shut off/sleep after 1 hour without movement. I am a super noob!

reset my computer to "on all the time" now. lets see if anything happens............

[aim7]

Hi craslovell,

Thanks. May I ask where can I find  "config file" to set sieve size?
my laptop installed memory ram is 16G. maybe I can set eieve size at 2M or 4M? Hope someone here can help. Thanks.

my very 1st time to mine any coin. using new client via my i7 laptop only. I thought it will at least make the fan noisy? nothing unusual though. I will leave it overnight and see if ever anything can happen.......

{
"blocks" : 65118,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : -1,
"primespersec" : 3855,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false
}

Exciting stuff, I wish you luck. Maybe you will wake up to a block found 

[Transisto]

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[craslovell]

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Nice share. I am not sure how efficient it will be to keep them running once GPU miners are released but for now a free $100 in credit sounds great.

[theDF]

Hi there!
Im new here, is it possible running a XPM mining on VPS without using high/full CPU resources? Im trying to make it run maks 50% of the CPU resources to keep my VPS alive without getting banned because use 100% of it resources 24/7.
Thank in advance!

[krasimir_sarafski]

i left my computer mining 12-13 hours at this rate


{
"blocks" : 109310,
"chainspermin" : 3,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 9.66886109,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : -1,
"roundsievepercentage" : 30,
"primespersec" : 4205,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"sievepercentage" : 10,
"sievesize" : 1000000,
"testnet" : false
}
shoud i be worried that i got 0.00 xpm or its fine ?

[FoldingTime]

Hi there!
Im new here, is it possible running a XPM mining on VPS without using high/full CPU resources? Im trying to make it run maks 50% of the CPU resources to keep my VPS alive without getting banned because use 100% of it resources 24/7.
Thank in advance!

When you hire a VPS you can use all the resources you want. Don't worry about keeping it at 100% CPU as they won't or shouldn't kick you off.

If your on Unix/Linux then use nice, if Windows then use set priority in task manager on the process to enable other tasks to take priority.

If you just want to use half the CPUs available then use -t switch on Unix/Linux or setgenerate true 2 on Windows. Change 2 to whatever number of threads you want (e.g. half the number of cores)

[FoldingTime]

i left my computer mining 12-13 hours at this rate


{
"blocks" : 109310,
"chainspermin" : 3,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 9.66886109,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : -1,
"roundsievepercentage" : 30,
"primespersec" : 4205,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"sievepercentage" : 10,
"sievesize" : 1000000,
"testnet" : false
}
shoud i be worried that i got 0.00 xpm or its fine ?

I've had a similar one running for 2-3 days without finding anything then bam 2-3 blocks in a couple of days.

It is a waiting game.

[atariguy]

Mine are still showing as immature.   Not showing as unconfirmed or in balance yet. 

Could anyone comment?

Mined blocks take something like 3000 confirmations for primecoin i believe.

So just wait it out and you will get your coins in your wallet soon enough

One thing u can do is see how many confirmations you have on each block u mined... go to the transactions page and hover the mouse over the block stopclock on the left hand side..... or go to the debug window and type "listtransactions" and you will see the number of confirms there.

FuzzyBear

Do the confirmations come from other miners, or do you have to keep mining until all 3,000 confirmations are done?

[FuzzyBear]

Mine are still showing as immature.   Not showing as unconfirmed or in balance yet. 

Could anyone comment?

Mined blocks take something like 3000 confirmations for primecoin i believe.

So just wait it out and you will get your coins in your wallet soon enough

One thing u can do is see how many confirmations you have on each block u mined... go to the transactions page and hover the mouse over the block stopclock on the left hand side..... or go to the debug window and type "listtransactions" and you will see the number of confirms there.

FuzzyBear

Do the confirmations come from other miners, or do you have to keep mining until all 3,000 confirmations are done?

confirmations come from other miners... the confirmations is the count of blocks between the current latest block on the chain and your block you are interested in.

FuzzyBear

[ekco]

Hi there!
Im new here, is it possible running a XPM mining on VPS without using high/full CPU resources? Im trying to make it run maks 50% of the CPU resources to keep my VPS alive without getting banned because use 100% of it resources 24/7.
Thank in advance!

When you hire a VPS you can use all the resources you want. Don't worry about keeping it at 100% CPU as they won't or shouldn't kick you off.

If your on Unix/Linux then use nice, if Windows then use set priority in task manager on the process to enable other tasks to take priority.

If you just want to use half the CPUs available then use -t switch on Unix/Linux or setgenerate true 2 on Windows. Change 2 to whatever number of threads you want (e.g. half the number of cores)

neither of these is correct. OpenVZ hosting providers will ban if cpu usage > 90% for longer than 15 mins, generally.

The way to avoid this is to use 'cpulimit' - I have the best luck opening a session with screen, invoking primecoind --daemon, calling top to get the PID, then running 'cpulimit -p $PID -l 70'.

This limits the cpu util to 70%, with the occasional burst.

[mg4637]

Noob here

{
"blocks" : 125172,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : -1,
"primespersec" : 0,
"chainsperday" : 0.00000000,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false
}

Am I doing this right i need some coins.

[atariguy]

If the numbers change from 0 after it's been going for a few minutes, you're probably doing it right.

[ango]

Greetings,
as a totaly fresh noobie I would like to ask whether is posible to use more than one machine to mine coins into one wallet. Link computers somehow without connecting them to pools as ypool.net. my wallet and my computer is mining, but i have few more idle pcs I would like to mine with.

thanks in advance and sorry for noobish question, Ive read a lot about it but am still unsure.

[Scott. S]

Greetings, I am new here on the forum and started mining this week.
I'm hoping if someone can help me out on answering this Linux based question:

I have the primecoin-0.1.2-linux miner running on a few Linux nodes. I run the daemon service as primcoind instead of primecoin-qt GUI interface. On primecoin-qt GUI it tells me the XPM value, however since primecoind is specifically used, I was wondering where I can determine the value of the XPM. I have created a loosely based script from boldar on the Litecoin forums. This is what I use:

#!/bin/bash

#Script to watch current stats of primcoind mining

watch -n 5 'primecoind getinfo & primecoind getmininginfo & primecoind listaccounts & primecoind getconnectioncount & primecoind listtransactions'


This is the output. It refreshes at a rate of every 5 seconds

Every 5.0s: primecoind getinfo & primecoind getmininginfo & primecoind listaccounts & primecoind getconnectioncount & primecoind listtransa...  Thu Sep 26 15:18:34 2013

{
    "blocks" : 181774,
    "currentblocksize" : 1000,
    "currentblocktx" : 0,
    "errors" : "",
    "generate" : true,
    "genproclimit" : -1,
    "primespersec" : 802,
    "chainsperday" : 0.07354261,
    "pooledtx" : 0,
    "testnet" : false
}
[
]
{
    "" : 0.00000000
}
{
    "version" : "v0.1.2xpm-beta",
    "protocolversion" : 70001,
    "walletversion" : 60000,
    "balance" : 0.00000000,
    "blocks" : 181774,
    "moneysupply" : 2247595.22000000,
    "timeoffset" : 2,
    "connections" : 8,
    "proxy" : "",
    "testnet" : false,
    "keypoololdest" : 1380045853,
    "keypoolsize" : 116,
    "paytxfee" : 0.00000000,
    "errors" : ""
}

I highlighted "balance" in red. Would the "balance" : 0.000000000 be the actual XPM mined? Am I missing a simple command I can add to this script which would show the immature and actual mined? I would like some idea as to what progress is being made. I have "tailed" the debug.log and it appears it is mining. Any help is greatly appreciated.

[mhps]

You need to use

Code: [Select]

getbalance "*" 0
to show unconfirmed coins I think. Also when solo mining you don't have anything until you find a block. So your balance will be 0 until a block shows up.

[Scott. S]

You need to use

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getbalance "*" 0
to show unconfirmed coins I think. Also when solo mining you don't have anything until you find a block. So your balance will be 0 until a block shows up.

Thanks, I will give this a look at.

[super3]

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Nice share. I am not sure how efficient it will be to keep them running once GPU miners are released but for now a free $100 in credit sounds great.

I did the numbers. The high cpu instances of AWS are really expensive, the low CPU ones are not powerful at all. If you launched them all at once you are only looking at about $5 worth of XPM.

[icedaddy]

My plan to mine with a ton of cores fizzled today. Got one server loaded to try it with 48 cores. It was suggested that the CPU cache was not enough for all the work it was trying to do.

I tried several different methods, played with the Windows settings for L2 cache in the registry and after a two hours I had a whopping 2 primespersec on 48 cores.

Giveaway will have to wait a few weeks 

Did you ever get this solved? I just acquired five 8 core servers, with similar issues...

UPDATE: Upgraded OS from server2003 to Windows7 and performance is vastly improved.

[super3]

Are you guys soloing with your server clusters? I built my cluster this week. I have i7, i5(x3), and i3(x2). Looking to add another i5, and a Xeon blade next week. I've split my cluster among rPool and Beeeeer. I'd say I'm making 5-10 XPM a day now.

[icedaddy]

Are you guys soloing with your server clusters? I built my cluster this week. I have i7, i5(x3), and i3(x2). Looking to add another i5, and a Xeon blade next week. I've split my cluster among rPool and Beeeeer. I'd say I'm making 5-10 XPM a day now.

My cluster is up to 20 machines now (I am not yet smart enough to understand the i7/i5/i3 stuff), and the idea of having 20 wallets to manage for solo mining is not something I want to do, and if there is a way to have just one wallet on the cluster and have just miners on the others for primecoin (like CPUminer for other coins) I have yet to figure it out. For me mining in general, and particularly primecoins, is still very much a work in process, but I am having a blast!
I was having bandwidth issues but I have resolved those and it's full speed ahead. If SY's stats are to be believed (and I have no reason to doubt them) I am at just under 50 XPM per day on beeeeer at this point.

[Scott. S]

You need to use

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getbalance "*" 0
to show unconfirmed coins I think. Also when solo mining you don't have anything until you find a block. So your balance will be 0 until a block shows up.

Perhaps I am doing something incorrect. I currently have 25 machines mining for the past month and so far I haven't seen anything. They are all mining on Linux desktops or servers. What can I do to verify mining? How do I determine the XPM and/or immature balances? They are all currently soloing.

Plus what does an XPM value mean? For example, what is 10XPM and how do I determine its worth in say Bitcoins or dollars?

[OtakuNoVideo]

Hello,

i´m doing some solo mining with 2 Systems with the HP11 Client. Is there any issue if i use the same wallet on 2 systems doing the mining on each System?

[super3]

Hello,

i´m doing some solo mining with 2 Systems with the HP11 Client. Is there any issue if i use the same wallet on 2 systems doing the mining on each System?

You can totally do that. That is actually the preferred method when you have a large cluster of computers that are solo-mining.

You need to use

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getbalance "*" 0
to show unconfirmed coins I think. Also when solo mining you don't have anything until you find a block. So your balance will be 0 until a block shows up.

Perhaps I am doing something incorrect. I currently have 25 machines mining for the past month and so far I haven't seen anything. They are all mining on Linux desktops or servers. What can I do to verify mining? How do I determine the XPM and/or immature balances? They are all currently soloing.

Plus what does an XPM value mean? For example, what is 10XPM and how do I determine its worth in say Bitcoins or dollars?

You probably haven't set the gen command correctly. I suggest you start mining on a pool first before trying soloing. You have to convert XPM -> BTC -> USD to get the real exchange rate.

Are you guys soloing with your server clusters? I built my cluster this week. I have i7, i5(x3), and i3(x2). Looking to add another i5, and a Xeon blade next week. I've split my cluster among rPool and Beeeeer. I'd say I'm making 5-10 XPM a day now.

My cluster is up to 20 machines now (I am not yet smart enough to understand the i7/i5/i3 stuff), and the idea of having 20 wallets to manage for solo mining is not something I want to do, and if there is a way to have just one wallet on the cluster and have just miners on the others for primecoin (like CPUminer for other coins) I have yet to figure it out. For me mining in general, and particularly primecoins, is still very much a work in process, but I am having a blast!
I was having bandwidth issues but I have resolved those and it's full speed ahead. If SY's stats are to be believed (and I have no reason to doubt them) I am at just under 50 XPM per day on beeeeer at this point.

Ha ha. Nice you must be much higher on that high score list than me. How are you managing the coin clients. I was thinking of making a nice little GUI manager. Seems like these things crash every once in a while, not to mention updates and such. I only have 5 machines and it took me a bit of work today to update them all and relaunch the crashed ones.

[Scott. S]

Hello,

i´m doing some solo mining with 2 Systems with the HP11 Client. Is there any issue if i use the same wallet on 2 systems doing the mining on each System?

You can totally do that. That is actually the preferred method when you have a large cluster of computers that are solo-mining.

You need to use

Code: [Select]

getbalance "*" 0
to show unconfirmed coins I think. Also when solo mining you don't have anything until you find a block. So your balance will be 0 until a block shows up.

Perhaps I am doing something incorrect. I currently have 25 machines mining for the past month and so far I haven't seen anything. They are all mining on Linux desktops or servers. What can I do to verify mining? How do I determine the XPM and/or immature balances? They are all currently soloing.

Plus what does an XPM value mean? For example, what is 10XPM and how do I determine its worth in say Bitcoins or dollars?

You probably haven't set the gen command correctly. I suggest you start mining on a pool first before trying soloing. You have to convert XPM -> BTC -> USD to get the real exchange rate.

I so far have this set ony my miners. Would you suggest another value?

primecoind setgenerate true -1

Are you guys soloing with your server clusters? I built my cluster this week. I have i7, i5(x3), and i3(x2). Looking to add another i5, and a Xeon blade next week. I've split my cluster among rPool and Beeeeer. I'd say I'm making 5-10 XPM a day now.

My cluster is up to 20 machines now (I am not yet smart enough to understand the i7/i5/i3 stuff), and the idea of having 20 wallets to manage for solo mining is not something I want to do, and if there is a way to have just one wallet on the cluster and have just miners on the others for primecoin (like CPUminer for other coins) I have yet to figure it out. For me mining in general, and particularly primecoins, is still very much a work in process, but I am having a blast!
I was having bandwidth issues but I have resolved those and it's full speed ahead. If SY's stats are to be believed (and I have no reason to doubt them) I am at just under 50 XPM per day on beeeeer at this point.

Ha ha. Nice you must be much higher on that high score list than me. How are you managing the coin clients. I was thinking of making a nice little GUI manager. Seems like these things crash every once in a while, not to mention updates and such. I only have 5 machines and it took me a bit of work today to update them all and relaunch the crashed ones.

[Henk92]

hi,  how do i know if i am minig anything?  I have my pc running for some days now.   and i have Primespersec arround 1000  but i still dont see anything in my wallet under transactions/  mined.  am i doing something wrong or does it take a loooong time to get anything?

[icedaddy]

hi,  how do i know if i am minig anything?  I have my pc running for some days now.   and i have Primespersec arround 1000  but i still dont see anything in my wallet under transactions/  mined.  am i doing something wrong or does it take a loooong time to get anything?

I run about 1/3 the primespersec per PC you do and I get a block about once a week but it is highly variable as I have found 2 in a day and gone 2 weeks with nothing.