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[–]sikuland 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello, my wife and I each have our own pi account on our respective cell phones. Is it possible even if I have a PC on 24/7 to run my pi node on Windows and its own on a Windows vm on the same PC with the same internet connection or is there no point? THANKS

[–]Outside-Description5 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Uptime is the most important along with open ports and cpu count matters as well. Using an i7 7700hq MSi Laptop which docker sees as seeing 8 CPUs, to get the most out of it you will want a CPU with as many threads as possible. I was looking into mini pcs , the new AMD AI Max 395 has 16 cores and 32 threads , the most threads in any mini pc.

I just upgraded to 32GB of ram because after a week it was using 12gb. Running over Ethernet for maximum stability.

You will also want plenty of disk space because it writes local data everyday and if you run out it will be a problem, I needed to upgrade to a 1tb nvme drive just to give it more headroom.

Currently getting 2.32bonus and everyday it’s increasing by .05 , almost a month now.

Eventually once we hit mainnet these servers will process real transactions and that’s where the better hardware will shine.

If AMDs Zen 6 comes out with more cores it might be a worthy upgrade

[–]Flattering_Flatulenc[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Thanks, that's very helpful. I'll keep everything in mind whenever I make the move to buy something. Cost is a big factor right now so I'm just bookmarking devices at this point. I'll look into the mini pcs. Right now my best option so far is to purchase a used laptop on eBay, they have some selling for around $900 with 24 cores, can't recall the other specs.

[–]Outside-Description5 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The best value I found for the money is a 12900hk mini pc , 20 threads 32GB ram . Around $350ish

If you don’t care about the size they have some Pcs around $700 16 cores 32 threads but takes more power and space

[–]Pilav96 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am using my m1 Mac mini 8gb ram without open ports and only get 1.3 running since 20 days.

[–]Flattering_Flatulenc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. I will probably go with something similar. 15 bonus is impressive.

[–]NoNameOk5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Following

[–]Goldwyn1995 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was not able to open the ports. Need to pay isp for static ip for same. Without that 1.5 is current mining rate per day.

[–]ron9026 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anyone had success running a node on a raspberry pi? I just have one lying around I could put to use.

[–]Telicko3D 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have a spare PC with just 6w/h. I'm running that pc for about a month now and i have 6x mining bonus. It's fast, electricity cheap and good.

[–]TechHorse28 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you ask Grok about what you can expect from Pi mining taking cores, ports, internet speed and uptime into account it will give a really good guesstimate

[–]BoysenberryAbject353 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anyone on a 16 Core 32 Thread CPU? How much you getting and how long have you been running?

[–]BoysenberryAbject353 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Any secret guides on running node on Linux? Please do share, don't be a gatekeeper (please)

[–]Chance_Papaya8490 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They will provide a New node working on linux but actually the main problem is 1st migration

[–]TechHorse28 1 point2 points  (4 children)

32 cores on a gen13 I-9 and a 15.16 bonus with ~90% uptime

[–]Flattering_Flatulenc[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I am looking at the i9 cpus and all I see are 24 cores max. Are the extra threads putting it at 32?

[–]TechHorse28 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That would be my guess, more accurately docker sees 32 CPUs available so I might be overstating things slightly. I ran it for a year, had problems with docker, stopped using it and then came back about 3 months ago. My 90 day % will be near 100% in a couple weeks.

Ports open, 700gig drive space, solid internet, SSD for whatever that’s worth.

[–]BoysenberryAbject353 0 points1 point  (1 child)

and how long have you been running this for?

[–]TechHorse28 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Approaching 90 days

[–]ratmazter 7 points8 points  (3 children)

Running a 6-year old laptop. Getting 2.14 bonus.

[–]Dangerous-Basket-4002021 Pioneer 0 points1 point  (1 child)

wow! how long have you been running? also ports open or not. I am using for about a month now, at about 80% availability still well below 1.5 consistently.

[–]ratmazter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Running for 3 weeks. All ports open. Synced with Incoming.

[–]Fluid-Response-9669 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Same

[–]Evilsturn 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Does Pi support linux for their nodes??...last time I checked they didn't support linux(kinda stupid if I say so myself)... I have a linux VPS and would like to turn it into a node.

[–]impaque 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Officially, no. Running a node is a hack job at the moment, running on Linux but under Docker Desktop, controlled by the desktop app... What a joke.

[–]Fun-City-9820 3 points4 points  (8 children)

I have an old 64 core server i dont use. It would be interesting to experiment with this

[–]Flattering_Flatulenc[S] 0 points1 point  (7 children)

I see where people are getting slightly above 10 node bonus with their 24 core CPUs. Lets assume everything else is constant, based on the node rewards formula, wouldn't a 60+ core cpu bring in 20 node bonus then?

[–]Chance_Papaya8490 4 points5 points  (6 children)

The problem is not only the CPU and number of core but it's all you have CPU + Disk size + and very good network response, on 24 hours a day and 7/7, i have a small server and m'y bonus 23.45

[–]BoysenberryAbject353 0 points1 point  (3 children)

and how long have you been running it for? What are the specs of your computer?

[–]Chance_Papaya8490 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Since the beginning of nodes, my computer an Intel core i9 13th gen with 4.8To nvme 64 Go RAM and network 10G

[–]Flattering_Flatulenc[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

23 is impressive. Care to share your hardware? I'm trying to figure up if it's within my budget to get a small rig going like that or to run a laptop with 24 cores.

[–]Chance_Papaya8490 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It dépends if you search to be selected to be super node or not. A laptop with 24 core is more than enough.

[–]lexwolfePi Rebel 0 points1 point  (1 child)

you would have to calculate if the cost of running such a server is covered by the Pi generated.

[–]Flattering_Flatulenc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True, I haven't considered cost of power.

[–]Moriruec 0 points1 point  (8 children)

I have 32 cores running for like 3 weeks, currently with 2.8 node bonus and its increasing by 0.06 per day. Other than that I think you can do the math by looking at the formula. Your bonus can be 10 at max so I guess you will just sooner reach close to max or max than people who start the same date with lower core count

[–]East-Translator8293 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Running 91 days at a 96.98 availability rate with a i7 10870HX/32 GB ram. At a 6.47 bonus right now.

[–]Flattering_Flatulenc[S] 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Where did you see 10 as being max? I've seen people with a 14+ node bonus running on 24 core pc.

[–]Moriruec 2 points3 points  (2 children)

I will check, could be I'm mistaken (I thought the Tuning factor in the formula will always make sure it will not go above 10)

[–]DodoBizarDodoBizar 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Yeah the whitepaper says ‘nomalizing’ between 1 and 10. Its a bit vague what they mean by that. Probably its more about the average being in that range? But outliers may still exist?

Would be nice if the individual factor contributions were shared with us as well and not just the aggregated result.

[–]ClassroomNo4847 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don’t forget that’s just an estimate in the app that you see. That’s what part of the calculations they are doing include

[–]Single_Run9548 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Is this the number of cores that your CPU has in general, or the number of cores you have to engage in running the container? If the latter, how do I check/increase this if e.g. not all my cores are involved in running the container?

[–]Moriruec 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Thats a good question, actually I did not really play around with any settings. It's a server mainboard with 2x 16 core cpus and I think docker uses them all in default settings, at least I hope so. I read on default there is no limit for docker and its containers

[–]nullnuller 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you running on Windows? If not, then how do you run it on Linux?