Link to the main high performance thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=255782.0
Another guide written by eCoinomist is available here:
http://ecoinomist.com/xpm-primecoin-mining-guide-on-linux
Please note that if you are new to Linux, it’s best to stick with one guide. Mixing the instructions from different guides may produce errors later.
Tested with the following Linux distributions:
– Ubuntu 13.04
– CentOS 6.4
Step 1. Installing the required dependencies
Using apt-get with latest Ubuntu 13.04:
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential m4 libssl-dev libdb++-dev libboost-all-dev libminiupnpc-dev
The ‘sudo’ command requires you to type the password for the current user. If you don’t have sudo working, you need to manually switch to root with ‘su’ before running those commands.
Warning: If you have installed a specific version such as libdb5.3++-dev before, then don’t install the meta-package libdb++-dev which may pull a different version.
Alternative for CentOS users:
su -c 'yum install gcc-c++ m4 openssl-devel db4-devel boost-devel'
Step 2. Compiling GMP
Latest version supports all the new CPUs.
cd rm -rf gmp-5.1.2.tar.bz2 gmp-5.1.2 wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/gmp/gmp-5.1.2.tar.bz2 tar xjvf gmp-5.1.2.tar.bz2 cd gmp-5.1.2 ./configure --enable-cxx make sudo make install
The configure script will attempt to automatically detect the host CPU and enable the best optimizations for it.
Step 2b. Compiling OpenSSL (for CentOS and Fedora users)
This step is only required if you’re using CentOS. Red Hat has removed support for elliptic curve cryptography from the OpenSSL it supplies.
cd rm -rf openssl-1.0.1e.tar.gz openssl-1.0.1e wget ftp://ftp.pca.dfn.de/pub/tools/net/openssl/source/openssl-1.0.1e.tar.gz tar xzvf openssl-1.0.1e.tar.gz cd openssl-1.0.1e ./config shared --prefix=/usr/local --libdir=lib make sudo make install
Step 2c. Compiling miniupnpc (for CentOS users)
cd rm -rf miniupnpc-1.6.20120509.tar.gz wget http://miniupnp.tuxfamily.org/files/download.php?file=miniupnpc-1.6.20120509.tar.gz tar xzvf miniupnpc-1.6.20120509.tar.gz cd miniupnpc-1.6.20120509 make sudo INSTALLPREFIX=/usr/local make install
Step 3. Compiling primecoind
cd rm -rf primecoin-0.1.2-hp12.tar.bz2 primecoin-0.1.2-hp12 wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/primecoin-hp/files/0.1.2-hp12/primecoin-0.1.2-hp12.tar.bz2/download -O primecoin-0.1.2-hp12.tar.bz2 tar xjvf primecoin-0.1.2-hp12.tar.bz2 cd primecoin-0.1.2-hp12/src cp makefile.unix makefile.my sed -i -e 's/$(OPENSSL_INCLUDE_PATH))/$(OPENSSL_INCLUDE_PATH) \/usr\/local\/include)/' makefile.my sed -i -e 's/$(OPENSSL_LIB_PATH))/$(OPENSSL_LIB_PATH) \/usr\/local\/lib)/' makefile.my sed -i -e 's/$(LDHARDENING) $(LDFLAGS)/$(LDHARDENING) -Wl,-rpath,\/usr\/local\/lib $(LDFLAGS)/' makefile.my make -f makefile.my strip primecoind sudo cp -f primecoind /usr/local/bin/
The last line will install the primecoind binary to /usr/local/bin.
CentOS users: Use the following ‘make’ command instead:
make -f makefile.my BOOST_LIB_SUFFIX=-mt
Step 4. Configuration
Create a configuration file:
cd mkdir -p .primecoin echo 'server=1 gen=1 rpcallowip=127.0.0.1 rpcuser=primecoinrpc rpcpassword=SOME_SECURE_PASSWORD sievesize=1000000' > .primecoin/primecoin.conf sed -i -e "s/SOME_SECURE_PASSWORD/`< /dev/urandom tr -cd '[:alnum:]' | head -c32`/" .primecoin/primecoin.conf
You may optinally customize the configuration file. The last line puts a random password in the configuration file automatically, so you don’t need to change anything if you’re only sending RPC commands from localhost.
Type these commands to create an auto-restart script:
cd echo '#!/bin/bash export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH" killall --older-than 10s -q run-primecoind primecoind function background_loop while :; do primecoind >/dev/null 2>&1 sleep 1 done background_loop &' > run-primecoind chmod +x run-primecoind
CentOS users may want to remove the ‘killall’ command from this script because the version that comes with CentOS does not support the –older-than option.
And for convenience, create a stopping script:
cd echo '#!/bin/bash killall -q run-primecoind primecoind stop' > stop-primecoind chmod +x stop-primecoind
Step 5. Starting mining
Simply type the following to start mining:
./run-primecoind
It will take a while for it to sync up with the network. The script will continue running in the background, automatically restarting primecoind if it crashes.
Step 6. Monitoring the progress
Checking that the primecoind process is runnning:
ps xuf |grep primecoind
RPC commands can be sent to the daemon like this:
primecoind getprimespersec primecoind listtransactions primecoind getinfo primecoind getmininginfo primecoind getdifficulty
Any combination of these can be used with the ‘watch’ command like this:
watch 'primecoind getinfo && primecoind listtransactions'
Press Ctrl + C to terminate the watch command.
You can also look at the output in debug.log:
grep primemeter ~/.primecoin/debug.log
If you want to see those in real-time, try this:
tail -f ~/.primecoin/debug.log |grep primemeter
Step 7. Stopping mining
Run the stop script:
./stop-primecoind