Boast how many block u solved, PPS and length of time mining

[FuzzyBear]

Ok so i interested who got lucky? who deserves more luck, and everything else

my stats:

Mining ~ 21 hours
PPS ~ 130
Blocks found = 3

[Sentinelrv]

Computer - Alienware M17X R3
Mining - 10 hours
PPS - 80-90
Blocks - 1
Primecoin - 19.84

[gudmunsn]

Computers - i7 3770 && i7 3615QM (laptop)
Mining time - 22 hours
PPS - 300-500
Blocks - 30
Primecoin - 602.82

[Sentinelrv]

Blocks - 30
Primecoin - 602.82

Wow, what a difference from mine. Is there anyway I can improve my performance here? I'm at work now, but if I remember right, I think I have a i7 2720 with 8gigs of ram.

[FuzzyBear]

Computers - i7 3770 && i7 3615QM (laptop)
Mining time - 22 hours
PPS - 300-500
Blocks - 30
Primecoin - 602.82

Yeah that is impressive and shows the modern day CPU's make all old CPU's obsolete with solo mining any coin these days.. need to get stand alone miner sorted and pools setup for the small primers

[gudmunsn]

Blocks - 30
Primecoin - 602.82

Wow, what a difference from mine. Is there anyway I can improve my performance here? I'm at work now, but if I remember right, I think I have a i7 2720 with 8gigs of ram.

I think I just got lucky early. I have found 0 blocks in the last 3 hours on both machines even though I'm at 400 primespersec combined.   I wonder if the windows binary was compiled to favor certain types of processors? I don't know much about that, but I seem to recall that you could compile with different instruction set flags, or something like that.

[FuzzyBear]

ok my little laptop with 8-15 PPS hit a block !! so you just got to keep at it... and I think you maybe are unlucky Sentinelrv

[Chryspano]

Athlon 64x2 (Dual Core) 2.8Ghz
Mining Time 1 day
PPS 5-40
Blocks 1 (19.47 XPM)

[craslovell]

6 Different CPUs
Around 350 PPS combined
3 blocks in 24 hours 

[DudeGuy]

6 Different CPUs
Around 350 PPS combined
3 blocks in 24 hours 

I guarantee that is above average right now. Good stuff!



I'm at 86 PPS using 3 of 4 threads on an I3-3225 FSB OCd from 3.3 to 3.4 GHz. Ivy Bridge and Haswell CPUs seem to be killing it right now for PPC. Wondering if my LTC mining will be hampered if I use all 4 threads?

[mww3]

PPS - 260 combined from 4 machines.
Blocks Solved - 2
Time Mining - 5 hours

Any estimate on how long before immature blocks are confirmed?

[urubu]

I have 22 blocks, but my main computer restarted last night because of windows update and I didn't have primecoin on autostart.

I5 2500k (150 pps) and I7 4770k(240pps). both cpu's are at stock speed on win7 x64.

[craslovell]

6 Different CPUs
Around 350 PPS combined
3 blocks in 24 hours 

I guarantee that is above average right now. Good stuff!



I'm at 86 PPS using 3 of 4 threads on an I3-3225 FSB OCd from 3.3 to 3.4 GHz. Ivy Bridge and Haswell CPUs seem to be killing it right now for PPC. Wondering if my LTC mining will be hampered if I use all 4 threads?

Perhaps it is above average but gudmunsn makes me feel inferior 

I noticed with my rigs that cgminer is definitely impacted by using all cores. You have to save it a small slice of the processing power!

[sandakersmann]

I got my first block after 23 hours of mining at 120 PPS...

[craslovell]

I got my first block after 23 hours of mining at 120 PPS...

lukejr on bitcointalk is claiming 1000PPS on a basic processor with some coding optimizations. Now we know where all the blocks are going.

If only I could code!

[urubu]

I got my first block after 23 hours of mining at 120 PPS...

lukejr on bitcointalk is claiming 1000PPS on a basic processor with some coding optimizations. Now we know where all the blocks are going.

If only I could code!

FROM BITCOIN FORUM

LukeJr, do you have any hints for people getting started on where to look or what to look for?  Are you running Linux?

Well, the most obvious one was hashing the block header once per nonce instead of 1-3x...
I think the rest of my optimizations required actually comprehending the code

I have no skillz in the programming stuff, but this would be nice to figure out.

[gudmunsn]

6 Different CPUs
Around 350 PPS combined
3 blocks in 24 hours 

I guarantee that is above average right now. Good stuff!



I'm at 86 PPS using 3 of 4 threads on an I3-3225 FSB OCd from 3.3 to 3.4 GHz. Ivy Bridge and Haswell CPUs seem to be killing it right now for PPC. Wondering if my LTC mining will be hampered if I use all 4 threads?

Perhaps it is above average but gudmunsn makes me feel inferior 

I noticed with my rigs that cgminer is definitely impacted by using all cores. You have to save it a small slice of the processing power!

Don't worry. My mining has been significantly slowed for some reason. In the last 9 hours, I've only found 1 block...and the diff has only gone from 7 at start to 7.257. I wonder what "difficulty" with primecoin means? Perhaps it is a lot different than bitcoin/litecoin/copycatcoin diff...

[MUTO]

3 Blocks on my Notebook i5 2,5 Ghz, Win 7, ~70 PPS
2 Blocks on my workstation Xeon Quadcore 3 Ghz, Win 7, ~100 PPS
0 Blocks on my server 2x Xeon Quadcore 2,5 Ghz, Ubuntu, ~ 20 PPS
0 Blocks on my server 2x Xeon Quadcore 2,5 Ghz, Ubuntu, ~ 20 PPS
1 Block on my server 2x Xeon Quadcore 2,5 Ghz, Ubuntu, ~ 20 PPS
2 Blocks on my server 2x Xeon Quadcore 2,7 Ghz, Win 7, ~70 PPS

Still wondering about the performance of my server. Thought I could really good mine with them. But the best Miner seems to be my notebook which does have the by far lowest CPU power  What´s wrong there?

@SUNNY
Is there something coded in the miner to slow down on machines with many cores (my servers have 16 virtual cores)?

@ALL
Can you confirm, that the Linux miner is slower?

[Gliss]

I got my first block after 23 hours of mining at 120 PPS...

lukejr on bitcointalk is claiming 1000PPS on a basic processor with some coding optimizations. Now we know where all the blocks are going.

If only I could code!

FROM BITCOIN FORUM

LukeJr, do you have any hints for people getting started on where to look or what to look for?  Are you running Linux?

Well, the most obvious one was hashing the block header once per nonce instead of 1-3x...
I think the rest of my optimizations required actually comprehending the code

I have no skillz in the programming stuff, but this would be nice to figure out.

For anyone looking to optimize, i think this is one of the places where lukejr is talking about: https://github.com/primecoin/primecoin/blob/master/src/main.cpp#L4610
Hashing it twice when you only need to hash once.

[DudeGuy]

Anyone going to put together a stand alone CPU miner? I'm not loaded in coins but I'll offer up 2LTC for anyone who wants to build it. There is another request by Volkshork and a donation of 1BTC to dev.

[XPMiner]

I've mined 18 blocks with about 1500 PPS costs me about $10 a day been mining for 18 hours.

[gudmunsn]

I've compiled a linux binary for ubuntu that appears to get a bit of a speed increase after 20 mins of running. It has some architecture specific compile options as well as some of the hashing performance methods updated that luke-jr mentioned on bitcointalk. I am testing to see if it actually helps me find more blocks now.

[FuzzyBear]

Anyone going to put together a stand alone CPU miner? I'm not loaded in coins but I'll offer up 2LTC for anyone who wants to build it. There is another request by Volkshork and a donation of 1BTC to dev.

sigh i should have had a pop at this tonight... bet there will be one released by the time i'd get to try building one... oh well i'll start on it and see where i get

[parachatt]

I5 2500K overclocked 4.5 GHz ram 8 Go Windows 7
Mining Time : 24 hours
PPS average : 175 primepersec
Blocks solved : 6 + 1 Orphan

[craslovell]

Anyone going to put together a stand alone CPU miner? I'm not loaded in coins but I'll offer up 2LTC for anyone who wants to build it. There is another request by Volkshork and a donation of 1BTC to dev.

sigh i should have had a pop at this tonight... bet there will be one released by the time i'd get to try building one... oh well i'll start on it and see where i get

Be my hero Fuzzy 

[craslovell]

3 Blocks on my Notebook i5 2,5 Ghz, Win 7, ~70 PPS
2 Blocks on my workstation Xeon Quadcore 3 Ghz, Win 7, ~100 PPS
0 Blocks on my server 2x Xeon Quadcore 2,5 Ghz, Ubuntu, ~ 20 PPS
0 Blocks on my server 2x Xeon Quadcore 2,5 Ghz, Ubuntu, ~ 20 PPS
1 Block on my server 2x Xeon Quadcore 2,5 Ghz, Ubuntu, ~ 20 PPS
2 Blocks on my server 2x Xeon Quadcore 2,7 Ghz, Win 7, ~70 PPS

Still wondering about the performance of my server. Thought I could really good mine with them. But the best Miner seems to be my notebook which does have the by far lowest CPU power  What´s wrong there?

@SUNNY
Is there something coded in the miner to slow down on machines with many cores (my servers have 16 virtual cores)?

@ALL
Can you confirm, that the Linux miner is slower?

From what I've gathered talking to people who can actually code (definitely not myself), it looks like it might be a problem of sieve size per core. If it's too large the CPU cache can't handle it.

I mined for a few hours with a fairly "stacked" server and 0 PPS the entire time, not a single block. Once some optimizations take place I think this might be possible.

[mhps]

T0 is the PrimeCoin release time.

Xeon E5620 2.4G using 3-4 core out of 8 ( 10-60 pps) starting at T0+4hr
found blocks after 6hr, 24hr

i7 L620 2.0G laptop using  2-3 core out of 4 ( 5-28 pps) starting at T0+4hr
found blocks after 9hr

i5 650 3.2G desktop using all 4 cores ( 50-85 pps) starting at T0+12hr
found blocks after 16hr, 23hr, 29hr

Someone with much more power machines have found much less blocks than I did. It makes me  wonder maybe the official miner was coded using optimization methods and/or compilation switches specific to a certain type of CPUs or chipsets, so that this type of CPUs mines faster.

[MUTO]

From what I've gathered talking to people who can actually code (definitely not myself), it looks like it might be a problem of sieve size per core. If it's too large the CPU cache can't handle it.

I mined for a few hours with a fairly "stacked" server and 0 PPS the entire time, not a single block. Once some optimizations take place I think this might be possible.

Thanks for that. I will switch off HT. This will result in 8 instead of 16 cores per machine. Posting updates tomorrow. Please see actual stat of my machines (all running since Monday) below. I removed PPS since Sunny said on bitcointalk that this number is just for fun and says nothing:

The primespersec measure is for fun only, it does not necessarily reflect true mining performance. The only accurate measure is block rate, that is, given a fixed difficulty how fast can you generate blocks. To measure this one can use a lower difficulty than the network difficulty.

4 (3) Blocks on my Notebook i5 2,5 Ghz, Win 7
5 (2) Blocks on my workstation Xeon Quadcore 3 Ghz, Win 7
0 (0) Blocks on my server 2x Xeon Quadcore 2,5 Ghz, Ubuntu
0 (0) Blocks on my server 2x Xeon Quadcore 2,5 Ghz, Ubuntu
1 (1) Block on my server 2x Xeon Quadcore 2,5 Ghz, Ubuntu
3 (2) Blocks on my server 2x Xeon Quadcore 2,7 Ghz, Win 7
1 (0) Block on my really crappy P4 running on one core

Edit: Turned off HT on all Servers, on one server I turned of half of the cores additional (4 Cores left). I´m very excited what will be the results.

[CoinBuzz]

Is it safe to copy same wallet files over multiple PC's, for running multiple instance of mining ?

[mhps]

Is it safe to copy same wallet files over multiple PC's, for running multiple instance of mining ?

Not a good idea. See my post here http://ppcointalk.org/index.php?topic=336.msg2162#msg2162

[Sentinelrv]

Ok, I now have about 58 coins, although they're all from the first 24 hours. I haven't gotten anything since then and its been days. I think I might just shut it off because this is costing me electricity for almost nothing.

[Sentinelrv]

Ok, I now have about 58 coins, although they're all from the first 24 hours. I haven't gotten anything since then and its been days. I think I might just shut it off because this is costing me electricity for almost nothing.

And just as I say that I got another block, lol.

[CoinBuzz]

i didnt get any block for last 3days.

[SeNiels]

join the club, me neighter. I'm running with 3 pc's

Let's see if anything changed when i wake up. Anyone willing to sell any primecoins, i want to have some! pm me

[balx]

I am not impressed with my servers hash rates compared to my desktop, but its better then the 16 pps i was getting lol.
2 servers both with duel x5690
1 desktop with i2600k

[MUTO]

Same here: Primespersec is much higher on the servers. But most of the blocks I find with my i5 Notebook 

11 Blocks on my Notebook i5 2,5 Ghz, Win 7
8 Blocks on my workstation Xeon Quadcore 3 Ghz, Win 7
0  Blocks on my server 2x Xeon Quadcore 2,5 Ghz, Ubuntu (on this server is still the original release running)
3 Blocks on my server 2x Xeon Quadcore 2,5 Ghz, Ubuntu
3 Blocks on my server 2x Xeon Quadcore 2,5 Ghz, Ubuntu
3 Blocks on my server 2x Xeon Quadcore 2,7 Ghz, Win 7 (was down 30h because of an hardware problem)
2  Blocks on my really crappy P4 running on one core, Win 7

[jh00]

I found 3 blocks on the first day. Not a single block since then. Am I lucky or what? Mining 16+ hours a day with a quadcore i5 3.1GHz.

By now I have digged enough through the source code to be able to say that primes per second means nothing. In fact, it's actually kind of bad since it makes people believe that a higher number is actually better. Even worse is that the PoW seems to be much more luck based than scrypt or sha256, although I don't know the reason for that yet. Maybe it's because the difficulty is still relatively low.

I read about how some people decreased the sieve size in the source code which boosted their pps by a factor of 2-10. Nevertheless, it increases the risk of finding 'fake primes'. 1000pps with 90% bad numbers is worse than 150pps with 20% bad numbers. At least thats how I understand it currently.

[CoinBuzz]

it seems something wrong with the network, nobody finds any block. difficulty is still 7, it means that we could find block by days.

[craslovell]

it seems something wrong with the network, nobody finds any block. difficulty is still 7, it means that we could find block by days.

The difficulty increase is about to be at 8. I got some details on this and it would mean that the actually "difficulty" of finding a block at difficulty 8 is 30 times more difficult than finding one at the starting difficulty of 7.

[ProfessorY]

I solved one block within the first 3 hours. Since then, I've been running 4 computers with pps rates of ~150, ~150, ~200, ~350.

I have not gotten a single block since and have been mining for over 48 hours. I got really excited at first but I only have 15.77 XPM to show for it. This isn't so much boasting so much as disappointment.

Did I just get really lucky the first time around?

[craslovell]

I solved one block within the first 3 hours. Since then, I've been running 4 computers with pps rates of ~150, ~150, ~200, ~350.

I have not gotten a single block since and have been mining for over 48 hours. I got really excited at first but I only have 15.77 XPM to show for it. This isn't so much boasting so much as disappointment.

Did I just get really lucky the first time around?

I'd keep it running if I were you. Did you update to the v.0.1.1 client? You never know, you might hit a lucky streak and get a few blocks in one day 

[kuriboh]

Yesterday I start mining this

I got around 2300-3000 PPS

Anyone know how many time to solve a block aprox with this pps?

[craslovell]

Yesterday I start mining this

I got around 2300-3000 PPS

Anyone know how many time to solve a block aprox with this pps?

Hi kuriboh,

There is really no good metric right now to find out how often you should be finding blocks, there is a whole lot of luck involved. Some optimized releases show a higher primespersec rating but are actually less efficient at finding blocks. Do you know which version you downloaded?

[kuriboh]

Primecoin 0.1.1 BETA
High performance version of Sunny King's Primecoin tree.

which version do you recommend?

[Sentinelrv]

I turned my miner off. I haven't gotten anything since July 10th. I think I'll just buy some instead when I get the money.

[craslovell]

Primecoin 0.1.1 BETA
High performance version of Sunny King's Primecoin tree.

which version do you recommend?

I am using mikaelh's HP2 client. You can download it from the thread on bitcointalk here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=255782.0

I can't say I recommend it since it is difficult to measure the performance of these modified clients, but to give some perspective I have found about 4 blocks between 5 computers in the past two days.

[coldacid]

CPU: Core i5-2450M @ 2.5GHz
Miner: mikaelh HP5

Mining: ~12 hours
Blocks found: 1 (and within one hour of mining)
PPS: 900-1000

[aim7]

laptop i7 2820QM @2.3ghz
mikaelh hp5 miner

pps about 3800-4100
accumulated about 12 hours since july 19
nothing yet

[psyc]

core i7 4770
Primecoin version v0.1.1.0-unk-beta
pps 5200

24h nothing yet -_-

[btcbible]

Sorry for the noob question, but what is the command to check to see how many blocks you've solved?

Thanks in advance!

[FuzzyBear]

Sorry for the noob question, but what is the command to check to see how many blocks you've solved?

Thanks in advance!

./primecoind listtransactions

u can get all command by typing

./primecoind help


FuzzyBear

[AlexMc]

Hi

Couldn't find anywhere to make a new topic on the forum (probably because I'm a n00b).

I've been solo mining, initially with the official Primecoin client, and now, for the past 24 hours, with mikaelh's Primecoin hp5 client from here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/primecoin-hp/files/0.1.1-hp5/

I've run both the original and hp5 on a number of different processors and found the hp5 release increases PPS anywhere between 4 and 10 times depending on the processor.

My PPS on hp5 are as follows:

~750 PPS with i5 M460 2.53GHz
~1900 PPS with i5-3317 1.7GHz
~4800 PPS with i7-3610QM 2.3GHz
~10500 PPS with 2x Xeon X5650 2.67GHz

All the above PPS were obtained using the 'getmininginfo' command after the mining process had been running for 10 min or more.  Mining was started using 'setgenerate true -1' in all cases.  It seems that the PPS statistic is only updated once per block and there is a variance of about 5%.

Sadly, the higher performance of the hp5 client hasn't increased my luck.  I've only found 1 block so far, and that was while running the original client.

My job brings me into contact with a wide range of CPUs, so while CPU mining XPM is still viable I'll update this post when I test Primecoin mining on others.  It's more fun than stress testing them overnight with Prime95!

[aim7]

36 hours with i7 2820,16G ram, pps 3800-4100. nothing.

after I read lots of online miners' posts, one conclusion: one can never get income by mining with investment below USD10,000. I might pursue it a bit more if I was 10 years ago just graduated. Even you invested $50k, what's your income? USD2,000 a month? That's a joke.

I deleted the primecoin client!

[FuzzyBear]

36 hours with i7 2820,16G ram, pps 3800-4100. nothing.

after I read lots of online miners' posts, one conclusion: one can never get income by mining with investment below USD10,000. I might pursue it a bit more if I was 10 years ago just graduated. Even you invested $50k, what's your income? USD2,000 a month? That's a joke.

I deleted the primecoin client!

Mining at this stage is speculation really on the value of the coin.

Mining is never really meant to be a money maker or get rich quick scheme, it is more important for the security of the network.

XPM is a ridiculously early days coin but has soo much good about it that we have seen people go to many lengths to get them an advantage over others on mining it... don't forget that only really solo mining is an option at the moment... though pool being tested here http://ypool.net/ and it better to get a little something as opposed to absolutely nothing.

Also do not forget that there are developers out there that can write miners from scratch, and maybe they have done so for XPM and are taking advantage of their hard work and skill before sharing the code with everyone.

Nothing wrong with primecoin, just a lot of people are interested in it and mining it so the chance of you finding a block on your own is low.  especially when u can see what people did with the digitalOceans cloud hosting... how can one i7 compete with that... you just have to either hope you hit your one lucky block and then you done or pool mine... I know people from the bitcoin days of CPU solo mining only and they had to leave their computers running 24/7 for about 3 days before they were lucky enough to hit a block.  Takes time but if primecoin went like bitcoin in price then well there is you speculation

Long live Primecoin!!

FuzzyBear

[FuzzyBear]

Hi

Couldn't find anywhere to make a new topic on the forum (probably because I'm a n00b).

I've been solo mining, initially with the official Primecoin client, and now, for the past 24 hours, with mikaelh's Primecoin hp5 client from here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/primecoin-hp/files/0.1.1-hp5/

I've run both the original and hp5 on a number of different processors and found the hp5 release increases PPS anywhere between 4 and 10 times depending on the processor.

My PPS on hp5 are as follows:

~750 PPS with i5 M460 2.53GHz
~1900 PPS with i5-3317 1.7GHz
~4800 PPS with i7-3610QM 2.3GHz
~10500 PPS with 2x Xeon X5650 2.67GHz

All the above PPS were obtained using the 'getmininginfo' command after the mining process had been running for 10 min or more.  Mining was started using 'setgenerate true -1' in all cases.  It seems that the PPS statistic is only updated once per block and there is a variance of about 5%.

Sadly, the higher performance of the hp5 client hasn't increased my luck.  I've only found 1 block so far, and that was while running the original client.

My job brings me into contact with a wide range of CPUs, so while CPU mining XPM is still viable I'll update this post when I test Primecoin mining on others.  It's more fun than stress testing them overnight with Prime95!

hmmm you should have had a message somewhere to let you know that you will need to post 2 replies before you can start a new thread on this forum to strop spammers.

I'll look into this, but welcome to the forum and happy mining

FuzzyBear

[bchydro]

I hear the difficulty is crazy high now. How do I check the current difficulty? Also, does the amount of work required on average to solve a block go up linearly with difficulty?

[Destiffmast]

17:36:13

getdifficulty


17:36:13

9.00547326