Important things to note:
- The ChangeLog for the binaries is here: https://github.com/dave-andersen/fastrie/blob/master/ChangeLog
- The difference between the builds is fairly minor - it's built against a multi-architecture version of gmp. sse4 should run on almost any reasonably
modern CPU.
Only sse4 for Windows. grab the .exe for windows and
the non-exe for Linux.
- 2% dev fee by default, adjustable from the command line. If you dev more than
1.5%, then 0.5% is split between jh and clintar, and the
rest goes to dga.
- MEMORY: By default, it sieves to 500m. If this uses too much
memory, run with -s 200000000 (that's 200m). If you have more
memory, try -s 900000000 (900m) and it may get you faster performance.
As of b14, with a fast CPU, you might go up to about 1.5 billion (-s 1500000000), particularly if the difficulty is high.
- While the reported numbers for 2ch and 3ch should be higher than
existing miners, they don't reflect the real performance - particular
2ch. 3ch is a little more indicative, but compare the miners head to head
for a few hours on 4chains/shares.
This miner sieves all six positions and matches the new share
definition (any four prime) that ypool supports.
- It takes a minute or so to really get up to speed.
- Known bug: At startup, the miner occasionally reports errors on submitting shares with an invalid merkle root. If it happens, do not panic -
it will stop after 4 minutes at most. If it continues longer than 4 minutes,
please post a bug report, but otherwise, don't worry about it.
- If you change -s, you will change the ratio of 2ch/s to 4ch/s.
Higher -s will have fewer 2ch/s relative to its 4ch/s rate. Always
benchmark and check your share rate - that's what you really care about.
- Use at your own risk. It may be buggy. It probably is. Always monitor your miners. There's a known bug that it doesn't always reconnect if the
pool disconnects - you are strongly encouraged to use a wrapper script
that restarts the miner.