Mining feathercoin on windows azure

[Sebastiaan]

Hello miners,

Following the below guide, I have managed to set up an 8 core virtual machine with ubuntu 13.10
[url=http://quark.freeforums.net/thread/457/azure-mining-step-guide-quarks]http://quark.freeforums.net/thread/457/azure-mining-step-guide-quarks[/url]

I set it to work mining feathers following these steps:

Log onto the machine using putty.
Download and install minerd

[i]sudo -s
aptitude install make gcc m4 automake libevent-dev zlibc zlib1g-dev libjansson-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev git

git clone git://github.com/pooler/cpuminer.git

cd cpuminer/
./autogen.sh

./configure CFLAGS=“-O3”

make

tmux[/i]

Then start minerd using the following command:

[i]./minerd -a scrypt -o stratum+tcp://ftc.give-me-coins.com:3336 -t 8 -u Sebastiaan.5 -p[/i] b

The hashrate is now 29.62 khas/sec (8 threads) which is somewhat disappointing since the quark miners report up to 750 khas/sec for a same sized virtual machine.

Naturally I want o make the most out of my $200 freebie at windows azure so I will stop my virtual machine for now and try mining some quark instead. Who has an idea on how to improve the hash rate though? Is there a mistake in my setup? Should I use a EU based VM maybe? Or is feathercoin just to difficult for this type of operation? All input and ideas are appreciated!

chrs

Seb

[mattmct]

Woo very interesting, if it’s free I’m in!

I’ll hopefully take a look soon, seen if we can get some faster speeds.

I don’t know much about quark, does it use the same scrypt?