Would any good soul check the specs and based on your experience suggest, which project would be best for this weak and slow computer:
This in now third project I ran for half a day or longer until downloaded block was finished, but didn't get anything. Got a little Mag but no GRC. It is killing me, lol, I got from one time faucet visit more, than from few days of mining. I tried YAFU, Citizens Science Grid and something else and got nothing after few days. I understand computer is slow and weak, but should be better than Raspberry Pi and some are using it, so my guess is I'm just picking wrong projects to work on. Any help appreciated :-)
Boinc client shows that projects are in grcpool.com-2 and Team is Gridcoin, and Gridcoin Wallet shows Project & CPID as: INVESTOR as per guides. It seems to me that everything is set properly although I'm new so who knows...
Hello, as @theissen said, for yafu you need a lot of cores and more testing time. Some tasks can take more than 24 hours to complete. For me NFS@home and Number Fields worked better than yafu. I "mined" for almost a week, but came back to only NFS. Now making a 20$/month profit. I still have 3-4 weeks to go before the MAG caps, hope to pass 100MAG.
About the sinc problem, sometimes I get that too. I usually wait few hours, or if I have to update urgent, I just restart the Server and it will sinc then.
Good luck and happy, rewarding "mining", crunching, BOINCing or however you like to call it :)
You are correct. After block was finished it showed up in a pool 2 in my Grcpool manager. OK so this is working :-) thank you!
Yafu needs a lot of cores and Amicable and Einstein also support GPU's, so hard competition. maybe try tn-grid or sr-base
Myself i have two machines with core 2 quads (q9650 and q6600) running universe@home and rosetta
If magnitude is the key driver and looking at your system (CPU+OS), I would say Yoyo or VGTU. @theissen's TN-grid suggestion would also be an option.
@theissen and @ parejan - thank you!
My plan was to try each one for 24 hours and see which one would work the best.
As I started removing/adding projects, Boing could not connect to Gridpool any more. I dropped and set again gridpool & I changed/re-set my password in Gridpool manager... Nothing helped. So i decided to uninstall Boinc. I deleted all hidden/setting files (Luinux) and (beginner) didn't distinguish between wallet and Boinc, so i uninstalled and deleted everything, now my wallet is gone :-( Nah, didn't have backup yet, i'm in process setting stuff up... for almost a week now
I installed back Boinc but an old task/project is still in and I still can't connect to Gridpool. So, basically I lost wallet but I kept the problem. Reinstall didn't solve enything. I really don't have much luck with this for now. And as of right now I hit the road block and I don't know what to do next.
The latest is, I can't add in Boinc Gridpool. I always get a note that it failed. And it is not set already
Got synchronization back but I have a problem that I can't solve. I added project as I should through Gridpool manager, then I synchronized Boinc client shows that project is in grcpool.com-2 and Team is Gridcoin.
But log says host location: none
If I refresh Gridpool manager, warning goes away, everything goes per video tutorial, but in Gridpool manager project does not shows in Pool-2.
But it is listed in pool2. What I'm doing wrong? Had same problem yesterday
Solved! Project showed in Pool-2 after it was finished.