**Quick Guide!** - How to mine Primecoin

[Transisto]

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[craslovell]

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[theDF]

Hi there!
Im new here, is it possible running a XPM mining on VPS without using high/full CPU resources? Im trying to make it run maks 50% of the CPU resources to keep my VPS alive without getting banned because use 100% of it resources 24/7.
Thank in advance!

[krasimir_sarafski]

i left my computer mining 12-13 hours at this rate


{
"blocks" : 109310,
"chainspermin" : 3,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 9.66886109,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : -1,
"roundsievepercentage" : 30,
"primespersec" : 4205,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"sievepercentage" : 10,
"sievesize" : 1000000,
"testnet" : false
}
shoud i be worried that i got 0.00 xpm or its fine ?

[FoldingTime]

Hi there!
Im new here, is it possible running a XPM mining on VPS without using high/full CPU resources? Im trying to make it run maks 50% of the CPU resources to keep my VPS alive without getting banned because use 100% of it resources 24/7.
Thank in advance!

When you hire a VPS you can use all the resources you want. Don't worry about keeping it at 100% CPU as they won't or shouldn't kick you off.

If your on Unix/Linux then use nice, if Windows then use set priority in task manager on the process to enable other tasks to take priority.

If you just want to use half the CPUs available then use -t switch on Unix/Linux or setgenerate true 2 on Windows. Change 2 to whatever number of threads you want (e.g. half the number of cores)

[FoldingTime]

i left my computer mining 12-13 hours at this rate


{
"blocks" : 109310,
"chainspermin" : 3,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 9.66886109,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : -1,
"roundsievepercentage" : 30,
"primespersec" : 4205,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"sievepercentage" : 10,
"sievesize" : 1000000,
"testnet" : false
}
shoud i be worried that i got 0.00 xpm or its fine ?

I've had a similar one running for 2-3 days without finding anything then bam 2-3 blocks in a couple of days.

It is a waiting game.

[atariguy]

Mine are still showing as immature.   Not showing as unconfirmed or in balance yet. 

Could anyone comment?

Mined blocks take something like 3000 confirmations for primecoin i believe.

So just wait it out and you will get your coins in your wallet soon enough

One thing u can do is see how many confirmations you have on each block u mined... go to the transactions page and hover the mouse over the block stopclock on the left hand side..... or go to the debug window and type "listtransactions" and you will see the number of confirms there.

FuzzyBear

Do the confirmations come from other miners, or do you have to keep mining until all 3,000 confirmations are done?

[FuzzyBear]

Mine are still showing as immature.   Not showing as unconfirmed or in balance yet. 

Could anyone comment?

Mined blocks take something like 3000 confirmations for primecoin i believe.

So just wait it out and you will get your coins in your wallet soon enough

One thing u can do is see how many confirmations you have on each block u mined... go to the transactions page and hover the mouse over the block stopclock on the left hand side..... or go to the debug window and type "listtransactions" and you will see the number of confirms there.

FuzzyBear

Do the confirmations come from other miners, or do you have to keep mining until all 3,000 confirmations are done?

confirmations come from other miners... the confirmations is the count of blocks between the current latest block on the chain and your block you are interested in.

FuzzyBear

[ekco]

Hi there!
Im new here, is it possible running a XPM mining on VPS without using high/full CPU resources? Im trying to make it run maks 50% of the CPU resources to keep my VPS alive without getting banned because use 100% of it resources 24/7.
Thank in advance!

When you hire a VPS you can use all the resources you want. Don't worry about keeping it at 100% CPU as they won't or shouldn't kick you off.

If your on Unix/Linux then use nice, if Windows then use set priority in task manager on the process to enable other tasks to take priority.

If you just want to use half the CPUs available then use -t switch on Unix/Linux or setgenerate true 2 on Windows. Change 2 to whatever number of threads you want (e.g. half the number of cores)

neither of these is correct. OpenVZ hosting providers will ban if cpu usage > 90% for longer than 15 mins, generally.

The way to avoid this is to use 'cpulimit' - I have the best luck opening a session with screen, invoking primecoind --daemon, calling top to get the PID, then running 'cpulimit -p $PID -l 70'.

This limits the cpu util to 70%, with the occasional burst.

[mg4637]

Noob here

{
"blocks" : 125172,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : -1,
"primespersec" : 0,
"chainsperday" : 0.00000000,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false
}

Am I doing this right i need some coins.

[atariguy]

If the numbers change from 0 after it's been going for a few minutes, you're probably doing it right.

[ango]

Greetings,
as a totaly fresh noobie I would like to ask whether is posible to use more than one machine to mine coins into one wallet. Link computers somehow without connecting them to pools as ypool.net. my wallet and my computer is mining, but i have few more idle pcs I would like to mine with.

thanks in advance and sorry for noobish question, Ive read a lot about it but am still unsure.

[Scott. S]

Greetings, I am new here on the forum and started mining this week.
I'm hoping if someone can help me out on answering this Linux based question:

I have the primecoin-0.1.2-linux miner running on a few Linux nodes. I run the daemon service as primcoind instead of primecoin-qt GUI interface. On primecoin-qt GUI it tells me the XPM value, however since primecoind is specifically used, I was wondering where I can determine the value of the XPM. I have created a loosely based script from boldar on the Litecoin forums. This is what I use:

#!/bin/bash

#Script to watch current stats of primcoind mining

watch -n 5 'primecoind getinfo & primecoind getmininginfo & primecoind listaccounts & primecoind getconnectioncount & primecoind listtransactions'


This is the output. It refreshes at a rate of every 5 seconds

Every 5.0s: primecoind getinfo & primecoind getmininginfo & primecoind listaccounts & primecoind getconnectioncount & primecoind listtransa...  Thu Sep 26 15:18:34 2013

{
    "blocks" : 181774,
    "currentblocksize" : 1000,
    "currentblocktx" : 0,
    "errors" : "",
    "generate" : true,
    "genproclimit" : -1,
    "primespersec" : 802,
    "chainsperday" : 0.07354261,
    "pooledtx" : 0,
    "testnet" : false
}
[
]
{
    "" : 0.00000000
}
{
    "version" : "v0.1.2xpm-beta",
    "protocolversion" : 70001,
    "walletversion" : 60000,
    "balance" : 0.00000000,
    "blocks" : 181774,
    "moneysupply" : 2247595.22000000,
    "timeoffset" : 2,
    "connections" : 8,
    "proxy" : "",
    "testnet" : false,
    "keypoololdest" : 1380045853,
    "keypoolsize" : 116,
    "paytxfee" : 0.00000000,
    "errors" : ""
}

I highlighted "balance" in red. Would the "balance" : 0.000000000 be the actual XPM mined? Am I missing a simple command I can add to this script which would show the immature and actual mined? I would like some idea as to what progress is being made. I have "tailed" the debug.log and it appears it is mining. Any help is greatly appreciated.

[mhps]

You need to use

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getbalance "*" 0
to show unconfirmed coins I think. Also when solo mining you don't have anything until you find a block. So your balance will be 0 until a block shows up.

[Scott. S]

You need to use

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getbalance "*" 0
to show unconfirmed coins I think. Also when solo mining you don't have anything until you find a block. So your balance will be 0 until a block shows up.

Thanks, I will give this a look at.