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2018-11-15 02:04:50
tim3
I have the node, client and pool miner running on the findsnow pool with no errors etc but in my wallet it shows all zeros..I just want to make sure this is normal..I have looked all over but cant find the rules as to how the findsnow pool pays out etc
2018-11-15 02:13:54
Clueless
@tim3 I believe it pays out after 5 blocks of shares? (sorry, I haven't worked out the math yet) Basically, the problem is you want to prevent people from hopping pools. It was a problem in bitcoin that large miners would hop pools in order to game the reward system statistically.
2018-11-15 02:19:01
tim3
@Clueless ok good just wanted to know everything was ok +1 ty
2018-11-15 02:25:34
tim3
@Clueless is it unusual to not have mined a share after a day? I'm mining on a laptop with a core 13 intel..in the miner its says shares: 0 (rejected 0) (blocks 0)..normal?
2018-11-15 02:27:06
Clueless
@tim3 what hashrate? what are you mining on? Typically what matters, in order, is: storage IOPs, cpu
2018-11-15 02:48:05
tim3
@Clueless storage is 465GB processor is i3-500SU cpu @ 2.00GHz
2018-11-15 02:48:37
Clueless
@tim3 what type of storage, the speed matters
2018-11-15 02:49:57
tim3
how do i find what kind it is?
2018-11-15 02:50:35
tim3
8GB RAM
2018-11-15 02:55:34
Clueless
@tim3 Ah. So to define terms. IO is input/output IOPs is input/output operations per second. GHZ is the frequency the CPU runs, loosely related to how fast cores handle instructions per second. Snowblossom uses snowfields (now 128GB) largely too big to fit in ram. so, the ability to do hashes depends on how fast the disk IO is.
2018-11-15 02:58:24
Clueless
@tim3 so! what type of disk do you have? :P
2018-11-15 03:08:33
tim3
intel(r) HD graphics 5500...
2018-11-15 03:08:41
tim3
in the laptop
2018-11-15 03:10:43
tim3
or do i look in disk read speed? response time write speed?
2018-11-15 03:19:51
Clueless
@tim3 ^ ``` Snowblossom uses snowfields (now 128GB) largely too big to fit in ram. so, the ability to do hashes depends on how fast the disk IO is. ```
2018-11-15 03:20:14
Clueless
so yeah, what type of disk? hard drive, SSD, nvme SSD?
2018-11-15 03:22:10
tim3
hard drive
2018-11-15 03:31:02
wangliang
@Clueless I have used SSD,my mining rate is over http://4K.It is ok?
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2018-11-15 03:33:10
Clueless
@wangliang what kind of SSD?
2018-11-15 03:33:21
Clueless
@tim3 ah, a hard drive might not be worth mining on.
2018-11-15 03:34:29
wangliang
@Clueless sata3 ssd 256G
2018-11-15 03:36:11
Clueless
@wangliang hm. check out windows disk management, it might tell you the exact make model there
2018-11-15 03:51:08
tim3
@Clueless what size ssd is optimal? is 120GB ssd ok?
2018-11-15 03:51:24
tim3
obv more is better
2018-11-15 04:03:34
Daeng
128GB+++
2018-11-15 04:04:21
Daeng
ooh i thought CPU didn't matter so the least i need to get is an i3? what are the cheaper AMD options?
2018-11-15 04:07:44
Clueless
@Daeng it's a matter of bottlenecks. First bottleneck is storage
2018-11-15 04:09:14
wangliang
@Clueless This is my ssd test result。
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2018-11-15 04:10:15
wangliang
@Clueless My mining rate is over http://4K.It is ok?
2018-11-15 04:10:33
wangliang
@Daeng My mining rate is over http://4K.It is ok?
2018-11-15 04:12:38
Daeng
i dont know i havent mine yet im buying hardware i dont own any snow yet lol
2018-11-15 04:15:16
Daeng
i just think this hobby project is cool
2018-11-15 07:53:48
wangliang
@Clueless It means my mining rate will reach 74-76 K?
2018-11-15 07:54:28
Clueless
@wangliang nope, at most 1/6th of that - overhead
2018-11-15 08:03:34
wangliang
@Clueless I have mined for 3hours,I only have 0.001364 http://snow.It not worth the cost of power.
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2018-11-15 09:22:19
Clueless
@wangliang sorry, I don't entirely understand. Certain hardware might improve your hashrate. It depends on *storage IO* of the snowfield