2018-11-02 00:42:40
The only thing with a testnet for the general public is that some new users may get confused and think testnet is the same as livenet and expect that they mined 1k SNOW in a couple of days, and when they can't send it to an exchange they get frustrated, angry and disappointed.
aikida3k
2018-11-02 00:43:35
as there will always be confused people angry and disappointed, i rather have people angry and disappointed over fake assets than real assets
Rotonen
2018-11-02 00:43:56
rename camera to scan?
Rotonen
2018-11-02 00:47:01
So how much is the memory overhead on arktika? I have one main arktika worker that has 288 GB and gets full hash and I have another arktika main worker that has 256 GB and only gets about 1/10 expected hash; for the 256 GB worker the buff/cache will only go up to about 101GB instead of 128 GB or more, so I am assuming the total memory needed for arktika in field 7 is 128-101+256->283GB of RAM
aikida3k
2018-11-02 00:47:44
Sure but usually the point of blockchain is that it won't get lost unless you send it to a wrong address
aikida3k
2018-11-02 00:47:52
grep the fields into memory
Rotonen
2018-11-02 00:48:47
something like `grep -a foo <list of chunks> >/dev/null`, and watch the cache stat grow
Rotonen
2018-11-02 00:49:44
if you rely on the mining to pull everything into memory, that's a random process
Rotonen
2018-11-02 00:49:54
@aikida3k sounds like a config issue
Fireduck
2018-11-02 00:50:38
Or something putting other things into fs cache
Fireduck
2018-11-02 00:52:24
ok. I'll see if I can figure out grepping the field into memory
aikida3k
2018-11-02 00:52:45
also what @Fireduck said, double check your node confs as to which chunks they try to use
Rotonen
2018-11-02 00:53:45
Make sure I didn't accidentally overlap the chunk allocations? I'll check that too
aikida3k
2018-11-02 00:54:01
or one of them has way too few or way too many or other whatever
Rotonen
2018-11-02 00:55:09
If you have that much ram, you just need two layers
Memory and file
Fireduck
2018-11-02 00:55:59
And you can experiment with network workers if you have spare memory bus
Fireduck
2018-11-02 00:58:06
well 9 nodes have 16GB allocated at 8 chunks, 1 node has 8GB allocated with 4 chunks and 1 node has 96GB allocated with 52 chunks
aikida3k
2018-11-02 00:58:42
Ah, you have a fun config
Fireduck
2018-11-02 00:58:53
Yeah, find the errors
Fireduck
2018-11-02 00:59:44
might want to use some templating system like ansible, puppet or saltstack to manage that mess for you
Rotonen
2018-11-02 01:01:22
that will be breaking new ground for me
aikida3k
2018-11-02 01:02:17
the initial climb is a bit of effort, but it's nothing too exotic in the end, just templating
Rotonen
2018-11-02 01:03:45
alrighty. :slightly_smiling_face: I started looking into dns redirection with bind last night because the hash keeps moving around from pool to pool so quickly. The worry is that a pool will go down and not pay out
aikida3k
2018-11-02 01:03:56
Like vauxhall
aikida3k
2018-11-02 01:04:48
I think I'm going to use dnsmasq to make it simpler, though
aikida3k
2018-11-02 01:06:02
satoshis.guru has dried up hitting blocks, too
aikida3k
2018-11-02 01:06:25
i'm pretty confident i'll keep my pool running - 2MH/s is about a block a week currently, so if you're not in a hurry with your payout requirements and exceed that in hashrate, you could just clear the standing shares off mine
Rotonen
2018-11-02 01:06:26
it basically was most frequent and then dropped off to a trickle
aikida3k
2018-11-02 01:06:58
I might. I'm trying to get up to at least 10MH
aikida3k
2018-11-02 01:07:01
Life is short and hard, like a body building elf
Fireduck
2018-11-02 01:07:14
sounds like a gnome
Rotonen
2018-11-02 01:07:18
Let's make life longer
aikida3k
2018-11-02 01:08:38
or, with 10MH/s, as that's 5 blocks per week currently, you could just run your own pool, as i suspect most other arktika users do
Rotonen
2018-11-02 01:10:52
decisions, decisions
aikida3k
2018-11-02 01:18:50
A question for the future, we should still be able to load and mine from server RAM with a main arktika worker hosting the field on an NVMe, correct? The NVMe does not need to store the entire field in RAM but the server nodes can load chunks from the NVMe worker.
aikida3k
2018-11-02 01:20:25
not sure I understand
Fireduck
2018-11-02 01:20:46
draw it
Rotonen
2018-11-02 01:20:47
it sounds like you have one machine with an nvme that holds the entire field, and then you have workers that might not have any real storage but have ram
Fireduck
2018-11-02 01:21:04
yes, more or less
aikida3k
2018-11-02 01:21:08
in that case, you can have the nvme machine share the chunks via nfs
Fireduck
2018-11-02 01:21:17
lucidchart is free and useful enough for something like that
Rotonen
2018-11-02 01:21:21
so that the other nodes can load the chunks they want into ram
Fireduck
2018-11-02 01:23:04
yes. good. Just wanted to be sure that the NVMe worker did not have to fit the field in RAM with arktika
aikida3k
2018-11-02 01:23:26
right, it can just be an nfs file server on that level
Fireduck
2018-11-02 01:26:46
What's your SNOW address, I'll send a little to @Fireduck @Rotonen @Clueless
aikida3k
2018-11-02 01:27:14
Might be a day or two, I have to get the node running again to send
aikida3k
2018-11-02 01:27:16
my tip jar address is on my wizard page footer
https://snowplough.kekku.li/wizard/ A quickstart wizard to help you get started with mining Snowblossom.
Rotonen
2018-11-02 01:27:29
duly noted.
aikida3k
2018-11-02 01:31:24
Maybe Mr.Krabs got into my head and has got me thinking it's a good idea to give some away :stuck_out_tongue:
aikida3k
2018-11-02 01:36:45
@aikida3k I don't want your money unless it's specifically towards a project, and I don't have said donation system setup yet. :)
Clueless
2018-11-02 01:37:14
Okey doke. Thanks for your help anyway. It's great.
aikida3k
2018-11-02 01:40:06
who wants wiki accounts? i've disabled account creation since chasing wikispam is not what I am into but I happy to have any actual community member to have access
Fireduck
2018-11-02 01:41:01
me
Clueless
2018-11-02 01:41:47
what username?
Fireduck
2018-11-02 01:51:02
@Rotonen so actually grep -a * <list of chunks> >/dev/null should work so that would be search in the list of chunks for all characters to put into /dev/null
aikida3k
2018-11-02 01:52:09
Why not cat? : :cat2:
Fireduck
2018-11-02 01:52:54
that would be simpler
aikida3k
2018-11-02 01:53:05
i'll try that
aikida3k
2018-11-02 01:54:53
You know, I took a red hat super user class in 2000 and I don't even remember covering grep
aikida3k
2018-11-02 11:04:59
@aikida3k anything which goes through the files in a way to land them into the filesystem cache will work
Rotonen
2018-11-02 11:05:20
cat outputs a lot
Rotonen
2018-11-02 11:05:59
so grep is a perverse hack around having to write to /dev/null as much
Rotonen
2018-11-02 11:06:36
but that’s from a very different era, have not benchmarked that in a while, thank you
Rotonen
2018-11-02 11:07:00
also grep does recursive so that’s sometimes handy
Rotonen
2018-11-02 15:54:39
Ruben seemed heavily biased against alt coins from the start so I don't think he would have been intrigued by Snow regardless of it being unique
quantumblockz
2018-11-02 16:01:51
and?
Rotonen
2018-11-02 16:03:39
That's all.
quantumblockz
2018-11-02 16:47:16
writing to dev null is super fast these days
Fireduck
2018-11-02 16:47:24
but I'd use dd so you can control block size
Fireduck
2018-11-02 17:45:50
I guess I should work on open bugs
Fireduck
2018-11-02 22:28:39
Who wants dinner at my house?
Fireduck
2018-11-02 23:20:06
Me.
fydel
2018-11-02 23:20:34
I suspect you are on the wrong continent
Fireduck
2018-11-02 23:20:48
But if you are ever in Seattle let me know
Fireduck
2018-11-02 23:20:51
34C3
fydel
2018-11-02 23:21:10
come here for 34C3
fydel
2018-11-02 23:25:19
Wouldn't it be 35C3?
Fireduck
2018-11-02 23:25:54
i dont know.
fydel
2018-11-02 23:25:57
yes its 35c3 :wink:
mjay
2018-11-02 23:26:12
oh shit.
fydel
2018-11-02 23:26:31
you got tickets for 34c3?
mjay
2018-11-02 23:26:33
i am not the brighest lamp.
fydel
2018-11-02 23:27:08
no vouchers yet.
fydel
2018-11-02 23:31:47
i don't get their sale.
fydel
2018-11-02 23:33:06
There'll be an online shop, just like in past years. The shop will open with a public announcement, then all hell will break loose, tons of scripts/bots will hammer the thing, bringing it almost down to its knees and within minutes the whole thing will be sold out.
mjay
2018-11-02 23:34:08
Good
Fireduck
2018-11-02 23:35:02
writing the script is the entry test for the congress
mjay
2018-11-02 23:35:20
ja. i talked to my friends on #bitcoin-de. it is hard. maybe i should ban them all. lol.
fydel
2018-11-02 23:45:01
Fake moutashe for everyone
Fireduck
2018-11-02 23:57:06
there is my cutest hamster video on <#CAR9AKG64|random>
fydel
2018-11-02 23:58:10
i think that should be a free pass to 35c3
fydel