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Re: [ANNOUNCE] ! First Live, working, wonderful haha LiteCoin Pool! LTC!
by
saethan
on 14/10/2011, 20:34:31 UTC
Hi everyone,

Complete noob to pool mining. Can someone help?

Which program do I use for pool mining? Windows client binary, daemon, litecoin-windows-miner-10-10-2011.zip (crashes on me) or something else?

Which file do I have to configure? Where do I put my information? I have already registered.

Thanks everyone.

n.olmos

You have to make a .bat file that looks something like this:

Code:
@echo on
ECHO "Litecoin Mining Started"
ECHO.

minerd-ssse3-core2 --algo scrypt --scantime # --retry-pause 15 --threads 1 --url http://ip:port --userpass user:password

Where, in my case I'm using minerd-ssse3-core2 because it's a specific compile of minerd that's optimized for this laptop's processor using windows.  I use a totally different compile on my linux machines, each one compiled for those particular machines.

--scantime # chooses how many seconds to spend on one piece of work, can tweak it depending on if you see stales.  If you see a ton of 'boo!' coming from the minerd output, try lowering the scan time a bit.

--retry-pause  is how many seconds to wait to retry if you can't get work from the pool - if you set this low you're going to spam the pool, too high you'll miss out on possible work if there is a failed attempt to get work.  Minerd defaults to 30, I think, if this isn't set.

--threads says how many threads to use, on a dedicated miner set this to how many cores your CPU has, on non-dedicated make it your total cores minus 1 so the program doesn't take over your whole system (or use all cores but set the priority low in windows task manager)

ip/port replace with the pool's ip port  (in this case
http://184.107.145.244 which I assume is defaulting to port 9332 - different servers can change the port number if they wish, though)

I think for this pool  you'd just do --user LTCADDRESS_1:1 through 9 (LTCADDRESS_9:9) instead of --userpass

After you've made a file that looks like that, save it with a .bat extension, and run it from the directory you have minerd in.

(edited this a bit because some things I said made -no- sense xD )