the images I have up now already have “sprout” in them, only needed if sprout isn’t in the image name or description
Thanks! if you end up mining any coins with them, donations are always appreciated and needed (I don’t have a day job)!
I’ll do 
I have already images … should I install wget h…h/zcash-1.0.0-sprout-amd64.deb?
yes, if you are still on rc4
what ist rc4? I use Ubuntu Server
I’m referring to your zcash installation…the AMI’s I dropped last night had rc4 on them and need to be updated, the ones I dropped today (the only ones currently visible for new instances) have sprout on them and are fine…if you built your own AMI, then you installed zcash and know what’s on it
Thank you! And you’ve got 5.5 sol/sc with c3.2xlarge?
yes, but I found since then that c4’s are a bit cheaper and a tad faster
~/zcash/./src/zcash-cli
zcbenchmark solveequihash 10
{
“runningtime” : 55.51606600
},
{
“runningtime” : 55.40878500
},
{
“runningtime” : 81.76414900
},
{
“runningtime” : 72.88755500
},
{
“runningtime” : 64.64459500
},
{
“runningtime” : 113.52460900
},
{
“runningtime” : 72.87704600
},
{
“runningtime” : 55.34072000
},
{
“runningtime” : 20.45808700
},
{
“runningtime” : 38.30876300
}
I 've got 63 is the median at c4.large
I’m getting 4.35 sol/sec on a c4.xlarge right now
How do you check it? ~/zcash/./src/zcash-cli
zcbenchmark solveequihash 10?
Sorry, I have to learn from the master I’m just the begginer…
I’m running it in the foreground with:
zcashd -getmininginfo -showmetrics=1 -gen=1 -daemon=0
of course I wouldn’t run that way all the time, but when benchmarking real-world performance, let it go like that for an hour and you’ll see what you’re really getting
Thanks! I’m doing this all on a donation basis, I can’t stand to get another corporate job after 20 years working for startups
I’ve got only 3 sols with my installation on c4.xlarge… I’ll try you image…
my image has sprout installed from a deb that I built on Ubuntu on a Xeon, and it performs somewhat better than deb’s built on i7’s on jessie (what the zcash team build on) for some reason, at least with tromp’s solver enabled
I logged in to the same instance and now I am getting
error: You must set rpcpassword= in the configuration file:
Configuration file intself disappeared and I can’t even see unspent wallets
Any thoughts?
wow, did you shut down the instance? and if so did you stop zcashd before you did?
I haven’t yet had any live ZEC in a wallet to fool with, and the testnet is messed up right now (they haven’t switched it to use the real genesis block)
No, I didn’t touch anything since yesterday
Maybe there was some memory leak and it rebooted itself.