SNOWPLOUGH

Mining quickstart wizard

Method	Unit	Throughput
RAM	Channel	200 kH/s .. 400 kH/s
NVMe PCI-E	Device	50 kH/s .. 100 kH/s
Optane	Device	40 kH/s
SATA SSD	Device	30 kH/s
SATA HDD	Device	0.3 kH/s

Howto

1. Check the block explorer for which is the current snowfield
2. Torrent the snowfield into place
3. Set auto_snow=false in the config
4. If you have enough free RAM for the whole snowfield and the miner itself
• Enable memfield=true in the miner config
• The miner itself will require some 10% .. 20% more on top
• You also need to bump -Xmx 'in the launcher' to match
5. If you don't have enough RAM
• Set memfield_precache_gb= to however much RAM you can afford
• The miner itself will require some 10% .. 20% more on top
• You also need to bump -Xmx 'in the launcher' to match
6. Set threads= to 2 x CPU threads
• This is only a good starting ballpark
• Try slightly more and less as well
• Only look at the 1h hashrate after over 2h

Config snippets

$ cat ~/.aria2/aria2.conf
check-integrity=true
enable-dht6=true
file-allocation=falloc
follow-torrent=mem
optimize-concurrent-downloads=true
seed-ratio=10.0
summary-interval=0

Last updated on 2019-04-17

It'll snow for a long time, sit back, relax and watch the glacier grow.

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