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RE: Mining STEEM on AWS (Free Tier)

in #steemhelp8 years ago

I have got this working now but i think its crashing the server, i got back and check every couple of hours and I can't connect (connection reset by peer)

I need to reboot the server and reconnect.

I have done the low memory mode build, maybe i need to reduce the number of threads

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hmm, I think it might be running out of harddrive space. Try the following to remove the swap file:

sudo swapoff /swapfile
sudo rm /swapfile

Usually a VPS or cloud will have issues if you close the SSH connection. You can solve this by adding "&" to the end of the command line that starts a server/daemon or whatever.

Example

sudo ./start_server &

You are basically telling bash to start the prog/service and keep it going in the background, then closing the ssh "should" not stop the server