I just recently started with mining those Bitcoin-alternatives like Litecoin and Dogecoin. As I noticed, A LOT of disk IO takes place on your main drive, which is an SSD in my case.
As you all might know, SSD's don't like too many writecycles. But that's where Primocache comes in handy. I've setup my cache during mining with a write-defer of a complete hour.
I've written 150GB of data after 6hours of mining (Total write) but only 7GB of that made it to disk(Normal write). Mining requires you to "download" an encrypted block and crack it by brute-force and other tricks. So after a block has been cracked, it gets deleted from disk.
Neglacio wrote:...I've setup my cache during mining with a write-defer of a complete hour...
That's living a little dangerously.
Why not put the mining application (or at least the files it writes) on a Ramdisk instead? Then any possible data loss will only affect that application and nothing else (Link Shell Extension can make it much easier to alias an application onto a ramdisk).
Well, I can't seem to find where the data exactly is stored. I see a lot of trimmed blocks in defer while mining, but its untraceable where it goes. I checked the usual spots like next to the exe, appdata, plain simple C:/, ... Nope, nowhere :s
Dangerous? Hell yeah! I've been overclocking my system to get the best results, leading into many freezes. Hard reboot was the only option, causing a lot of corrupted data. I've learned my share, and disable the write-defer when I'm out hunting for the highest hashes/sec
Neglacio wrote:Well, I can't seem to find where the data exactly is stored. I see a lot of trimmed blocks in defer while mining, but its untraceable where it goes. I checked the usual spots like next to the exe, appdata, plain simple C:/, ... Nope, nowhere :s
A before/after snapshot-based installation monitor (several listed here - I use Total Uninstall version 4 myself but cannot recommend the current version 6 since it requires online activation) should help track down where the data is written. I find it invaluable for tracking down game savefiles which seem to go almost anywhere nowadays (Application Data, Local Settings, My Documents, My Games, etc - stupid Microsoft...)
Neglacio wrote:Well, I can't seem to find where the data exactly is stored. I see a lot of trimmed blocks in defer while mining, but its untraceable where it goes. I checked the usual spots like next to the exe, appdata, plain simple C:/, ... Nope, nowhere :s
Dangerous? Hell yeah! I've been overclocking my system to get the best results, leading into many freezes. Hard reboot was the only option, causing a lot of corrupted data. I've learned my share, and disable the write-defer when I'm out hunting for the highest hashes/sec
Is it not stored in your miner folder where you run you .bat file etc.? Usually when you start the program it creates new files. I have an R9 290 and it creates new files labeled hawaii. Not 100% sure but its a suggestion.
