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RE: Mining Steem on OS X

in #mining • 8 years ago

I'm having this exact problem on my raspberry pi. I reported the problem over in steemit.chat#mining. Hopefully, someone has some insight.

Interestingly, I've also done the installation on DigitalOceans, this problem doesn't occur.

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     8 years ago (edited)

    Main problem I set-out above was caused by starting mining from the wrong directory, so system wasn't finding my modified config.ini file. Though still had constant issues with running on OS X, my solution is as follows: (not sure if this will help much on a Raspberry pi)

    I found easiest solution was to run it on Ubuntu on a virtual machine using VMware Fusion. Only had one issue to diagnose, which I managed to workout myself. One minor downside that probably doesn't affect anyone with 16 cores/threads or less, is that I couldn't run a full 24 cores/threads on my machine. I followed these comprehensive instructions to do this:

    https://steemit.com/steemit/@cloh76/comprehensive-guide-to-mining-steem-for-both-windows-and-linux-users#@timeet/re-cloh76-comprehensive-guide-to-mining-steem-for-both-windows-and-linux-users-20160807t220847671z

    The one problem I experienced was solved by hashing(#) out the last seed-note from the "config.ini" file as show below:

    seed-node = 212.47.249.84:40696
    seed-node = 52.4.250.181:39705
    seed-node = 81.89.101.133:2001
    seed-node = 192.99.4.226:2001
    seed-node = 46.252.27.1:1337
    #seed-node = seed.steemd.com:34191

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       8 years ago 

      I'm fairly certain the problem I'm having is due to the tiny RAM on the pi (1GB). Even setting a huge swap of 8GB didn't help. I'm finding that 2GB is the absolute minimum.

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         8 years ago 

        You've probably seen this, and not sure how it would work with a pi: If memory is to low to compile run:
        cmake -DENABLE_CONTENT_PATCHING=OFF -DLOW_MEMORY_NODE=ON CMakeLists.txt

        I Took this from here: https://steemit.com/steemhelp/@proctologic/easy-install-steemd-in-ubuntu

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