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2018-11-05 16:39:24
Clueless
@Rotonen @Fireduck I'm ready to build that mining machine. I'm thinking 2-3 of these 4x pcie nvme card Link: http://a.co/d/gN0TzDq 8x samsung 970 evo 500GB or 1TB Link: http://a.co/d/6zQmata Total so far $2100 Need to pick out motherboard(s), cpus, ram
2018-11-05 16:58:05
Rotonen
don’t get high power SSDs, dont’t get SSDs with lesser channel counts, that hyperx only works with intel nvme, but then you should do VROC
2018-11-05 17:04:00
fydel
in miner what does this mean: INFORMATION: Probably code EBCAK ?
2018-11-05 17:04:28
Fireduck
That was me being sassy
2018-11-05 17:04:37
Fireduck
Error between chair and keyboard
2018-11-05 17:04:58
fydel
that's really sassy.
2018-11-05 17:05:10
fydel
naughty
2018-11-05 17:09:10
fydel
i like your humor. but that's not really helpful.
2018-11-05 17:09:29
Fireduck
Agreed
2018-11-05 17:09:44
Fireduck
But it tells you that you have a pool
2018-11-05 17:09:51
Fireduck
So it is a local problem
2018-11-05 17:09:52
fydel
could it be a broken snowfield? i am just setting a new server.
2018-11-05 17:10:01
Fireduck
Arktika or PoolMiner?
2018-11-05 17:10:06
fydel
poolminer
2018-11-05 17:13:24
Fireduck
That will test all the fields on start up and it will tell you which ones are working and which are not
2018-11-05 17:13:53
fydel
ah. okay.
2018-11-05 17:23:05
Clueless
@Rotonen I wasn't going to bother with tattoos, as I figured it would add overhead. In which case. I thought it'd still work with other NVME?
2018-11-05 17:29:28
Fireduck
Face tattoos ?
2018-11-05 17:40:07
Rotonen
@Clueless reports seem to vary, read <#CB4CYRTPG|mining> from discord from over the weekend
2018-11-05 18:06:54
Clueless
@Rotonen Well, I can always send it back and try something else if that doesn't work.
2018-11-05 18:07:50
Clueless
since the larger drives are faster, I think I'd go with those.
2018-11-05 18:24:17
Rotonen
at least with the 960 pro, only the 2TB model is actually sustainably fast - i’m a bit sceptical of samsung here
2018-11-05 18:25:11
Rotonen
from intel, the 760p looks pretty good, though, especially if on VROC
2018-11-05 18:27:17
Rotonen
that seems to mostly ride on bypassing pcie switching with some bus level hardcoding
2018-11-05 18:28:44
Rotonen
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/memory-storage/solid-state-drives/consumer-ssds/760p-series.html The Intel® SSD 760p Series combines high PCIe* performance and high capacity with low power consumption.
2018-11-05 18:30:21
Rotonen
no idea what that 8GB span disclaimer is
2018-11-05 18:30:50
Rotonen
no two vendors measure the same way the thing snowblossom mining rides on
2018-11-05 18:33:12
Fireduck
350k random read
2018-11-05 18:33:21
Fireduck
So 56kh/s
2018-11-05 18:33:29
Clueless
I'm confused, should I use VROC?
2018-11-05 18:34:03
Clueless
and should I be thinking 56KH per NVME SSD?
2018-11-05 18:35:20
Clueless
maybe I should just do a DDR3 ram machine
2018-11-05 18:35:29
Clueless
You can get 128GB (4x32) for $800
2018-11-05 18:36:08
SidGrip
I was looking at this, I already have 1 1TB Ram Snow miner, thinking about a second one
2018-11-05 18:36:09
SidGrip
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-R910-16B-32-Core-2-26GHz-X7560-1TB-2X-600GB-2-5-SAS-H700-512MB-8MR/173462848991 Our technicians specialize in Dell models ensuring that your unit will arrive on your doorstep with quality components and performing at optimal efficiency. Model: PowerEdge R910 4B. Hard Drives 2x 600GB 2.5" 10K. | eBay!
2018-11-05 18:37:09
Fireduck
@SidGrip are you making the memory bus of your existing one?
2018-11-05 18:37:29
Fireduck
Might want to try adding arktika worker nodes to it if not
2018-11-05 18:39:29
SidGrip
I did have it setup with another 148GB server using arktika but the other server doesn't make up the difference in hash rate loss when using arktika on the main miner
2018-11-05 19:16:54
Rotonen
@Clueless as far as i can tell VROC uses your cpu as the ssd controller, directly driving all the nand channels, thus skipping a middle man
2018-11-05 19:18:05
Rotonen
@Fireduck i’m having a hunch VROC can squeeze more than the dinky little arm on the ssd, but seeking verification
2018-11-05 19:19:17
Rotonen
@SidGrip how many sockets is that? seems like a quite the winner
2018-11-05 19:24:37
Rotonen
mobile ebay sucks, dual socket quad channel
2018-11-05 19:24:38
SidGrip
It's 4 socket quad channel, the one I have running gets over 3 M/hash and does 2.8 M/hash running arktika
2018-11-05 19:24:44
Rotonen
oh?
2018-11-05 19:33:32
Rotonen
@SidGrip any guesses as to what’d limit arktika? that gap is sadly close to 7/8
2018-11-05 19:36:26
SidGrip
I don't know if I understandthe question, I remember asking @Fireduck a while back about arktika and he said there was performance loss. I am currently running snowfield 9
2018-11-05 19:42:02
Rotonen
@SidGrip tcp/ip has 1/8 of the packet as overhead
2018-11-05 19:42:14
Fireduck
Artika has a bit of I'm memory enquue and dequeue operation
2018-11-05 19:42:40
Fireduck
Which involves a bit of locking
2018-11-05 19:42:50
Rotonen
that sounds more plausible than the clown college i suspect
2018-11-05 19:43:03
Fireduck
So not surprised there would be perf impact, especially on multicore
2018-11-05 19:43:20
Fireduck
Multisocket I mean
2018-11-05 19:43:46
Fireduck
The lock stuff will probably always be in cache of other prcoccesor or something
2018-11-05 19:44:23
Rotonen
if that lock exists in an another numa zone, the access penalty on acquiring and releasing can be rough
2018-11-05 19:44:29
Fireduck
I should make a thread local optimized queue implementation
2018-11-05 19:44:57
Rotonen
please do, that’d play beautifully into cuda
2018-11-05 19:45:20
Rotonen
i’m thinking of gpu memory as a sacrificial cache in that case
2018-11-05 19:45:39
Fireduck
I'll have to think about it
2018-11-05 19:46:52
Fireduck
Not as easy as the thread optimized atomic long I wrote last week
2018-11-05 20:19:21
umarucchi
hi i need to set up the configs file mining for start mine?
2018-11-05 20:27:57
Fireduck
What sort of hardware do you have?
2018-11-05 20:31:21
umarucchi
notebook hp
2018-11-05 20:33:28
umarucchi
os ubuntu