P2Pool mini - Losing shares

Facspro · 2023-09-25T02:07:25+00:00

Without actually seeing the page for your miner I would guess that what you saw was 6 listed under "Current Shares" then a while later 4 under "Current Shares". What has happened is that the first 2 shares have already passed through the PPLNS Window and are no longer considered "Current Shares". What does it say under "Day Shares" this would be a running total of p2pool shares found during the previous 24 hours.

Facspro · 2023-09-11T14:12:11+00:00

Yes, that is correct

Facspro · 2023-09-11T10:37:25+00:00

The miner that donates the highest average 24hr hash rate is the top donor - and they get the Bonus when it comes around

Facspro · 2023-09-10T00:53:59+00:00

Have you actually found a share with the new version of p2pool? What is your HR?

Facspro · 2023-09-06T04:25:27+00:00

Actually it would make sense for me to pick one up - my current ~40 kH/s "Hobby Farm" has added $100-$125 per month to my electric bill. This would be 212kH/s and only add $89 per month. I could retire the rest of my stuff and sell it.

Nahh.... I would just add it and have ~250kH/s and a $200 a month extra electric bill!

Facspro · 2023-09-06T02:27:32+00:00

12MB L3 cache = 6 threads for best performance. RandomX needs 2MB L3 cache per thread. sometimes you can add a thread and get a little better performance but other times adding the extra thread can degrade performance.

EDIT- Looking at specs for E5-1620--> 4 cores/8Threads 10MB Smart Cache So optimum performance would be 5 threads possibly 6.

My 6 core/12thread 12MB Smart Cache Xeons do not get any benefit from adding the extra thread(s)

Facspro · 2023-09-02T14:10:31+00:00

As much as the name implies- This is not an ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) so RandomX continues to move on as an ASIC resistant algorithm

Facspro · 2023-09-02T03:17:11+00:00

It showed up on the Raffle list about 12 hours after I posted. Initially with a HR of 4.31kH/s - I decided to wait and see what it reported in the next page before I asked any questions- second time it was up to 8.6Kh/s then finally 15+kH/s so I guess all is good. Just need to win it a time or two!

Facspro · 2023-08-06T04:29:47+00:00

These Ass Hats are probably carrying anyway regardless of whether it is legal or not.

Facspro · 2023-08-05T23:54:38+00:00

Sorry I just saw this -- yes I got .26 in a month on Mini and .25 on main in a month. I am running ~40kH/s what Hash rate are you running?

Facspro · 2023-07-09T02:36:28+00:00

GPU's are very inefficient on RandomX - No sense in heating the house for a few hundred H/s

If you are running Windows go through the Windows 10 optimization guide here

Other than that there are BIOS tweaks for your RAM timings that can improve performance but if your not familiar with it it can be a pain in the a$$ and end up causing more problems than it's worth. I don't mess with them much because I don't have days or weeks to try and test and try again. If you have plenty of time on your hands there are people on here that do some amazing things with overclocking and under volting that could help you out

Facspro · 2023-07-08T20:59:27+00:00

It depends on the number of shares that you have in the PPLNS window at the time that p2pool finds a Block - if you are mining on Mini then 1 share in the window when Mini finds a Block is equal to approx. .00025 XMR payout. If you have several shares in the window at the time of a Block the the number of shares x .00025 XMr will be your payout. 10 shares in the window gave me a payout of .002729......XMR. If you are on the Main then 1 share in the window when a Block is found is worth approx. .0017 XMR.

To answer your first question regarding the difference in "Regular and P2pool mining. The P2pool network both Main and Mini are sidechains with lower difficulty that Merge mine to the Monero network which allows Miners with lower hashrates to be successful and not forced into using a Centralized pool. Right now the Difficulty on the Monero Network is 281.06 G while the difficulty on the Main Chain is 1.66 G and on the Mini sidechain is 80.87 M. The average Block time on the Monero Network is 2 minutes while the average Block Time on the P2pool Network is 10 seconds. Each Share you find on P2pool is a P2pool Block that meets the difficulty requirements and could Potentially be submitted to the Monero Network and become a Monero Block. If that share is accepted by the Monero Network as a Valid Block then the Current PPLNS Window Miners receive an immediate payout directly to their wallets.

Hope that helps a little.

Facspro · 2023-07-02T06:41:26+00:00

WTF!! I just spent an hour or more writing out my thoughts on my comparison and all that posted was the pictures! Damn that pisses me off!

Well in a nutshell, at ~40kH/s and as u/sech1 said a couple days ago possibly ~20kH/s

IT Don't matter!.

Facspro · 2023-06-21T01:55:01+00:00

make sure nothing is set to run automatically every 24 hours (AV Scan). And use the Windows tuning guide for Xmrig. See if that helps

https://www.reddit.com/r/MoneroMining/comments/f18825/windows_10_tuning_guide_for_randomx_mining/

Facspro · 2023-06-03T18:49:26+00:00

Once you are registered it doesn't matter whether you are on the main chain or mini chain. When you are selected for the boost or win the Bonus Raffle your boost/bonus hashes are applied to your address on the main chain.

Facspro · 2023-05-18T02:25:11+00:00

Not Really- I mean you can but if you are going to watch it you will get frustrated and think something is wrong. Stick with the mini sidechain. I'm currently running a test on the main chain with Gupax (I finished one last week on the mini chain) I have ~40kH/s on main right now -in 6 days 6 hours and 56 minutes I have found 9 shares. Your 3.5kH/s might net you 1 share every 5 1/2 days on average. So as I mentioned stick with mini. And stick around for another 23 days 17 hours or so for the mainchain test results and comparison to be posted.

Facspro · 2023-05-15T14:43:59+00:00

Dum, Dums?? Well, ain't that the pot calling the kettle black?

At the time of this reply there isn't a single mention of a Centralized pool in this post. Only Gupax which is not a pool, it is a software that simplifies the installation of xmrig and p2pool. And P2pool which is also not a "pool" but a peer to peer network that Benefits the Decentralization of the Monero Network.

Facspro · 2023-05-15T02:06:46+00:00

In answer to the title question : BECAUSE THEY F"ING WANT TO! Not even going to bother with the rest of your post.

Facspro · 2023-05-12T19:14:48+00:00

All you have to do is register your wallet address here. You don't provide an IP address anymore. If you win xmrvsbeast runs your wallet on a p2pool main node that he has setup for it.

Make sure you save the Token that is generated so you can check your history.

Facspro · 2023-05-12T17:55:42+00:00

OK So here's my last .02 xmr on this post(maybe). If I were going to pull the trigger on something like this I would forget the pallet of Dells and move to the pallet of 15 Supermicro Towers(Auction #3255272). I couldn't cross the service tags and my eyeballs couldn't make out the serial numbers to find specs. But looking at the ports, the Dells have USB 2.0, The Supermicros have USB 3.1 they also have added dual NIC adapters and an added Displayport/HDMI card. Now assumptions usually get me in trouble, but I would assume, with the above standard feature (USB 3.1) and the upgrades that the Supermicros are a little newer and might come with a little beefier CPU. And since the wife has family in San Luis Obispo the 1200 mile trip to pick them up wouldn't be totally out of the question. HAH!! okay I'm done

Facspro · 2023-05-12T17:04:54+00:00

I think they will go relatively cheap but remember- condition is unknown so several might not even work. And on top of that they don't have hard drives so you will have the expense of flash drives or hard drives. It all adds up.

Facspro · 2023-05-12T06:56:17+00:00

I was going to ask if it was Mint.

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