Steem Mining - Ubuntu 14.04

Hi all,

I am a bit a of a noob when it comes to Linux and mining in general but I saw a few posts on here talking about how to get setup - it seemed simple enough so I decided to give it a go. I have managed to get the miner installed on a server and I am accessing it via ssh

The miner has been running on and off for a couple of days now and it has managed to update the full blockchain.

Lastnight i was able to actually do a little bit of mining, I didn't actually take any screenshots but it looked like it was working (the lines in the console were showing a hash rate along with some other information)

over the couple of days it took to update the blockchain the steemd was crashing from time to time. I just kept an eye on it, connecting every so often to see how it was getting on.

After mining overnight I came to check it this morning and steemd has again crashed (its not running) so I have tried to start it again but now i cannot get past 95% of replaying the blockchain. I have tried multiple times but steemd just keeps crashing and i can never verify the blockchain to continue mining.

I am not getting a specific error message at all, I am actually running steemd and piping to a log file. I check the log file after i see the daemon has failed and the last few lines are:

1155647ms th_a database.cpp:3475 apply_hardfork ] HARDFORK 7
1160369ms th_a database.cpp:3480 apply_hardfork ] HARDFORK 8
83.8464% 2900000 of 3458707
86.7376% 3000000 of 3458707
89.6289% 3100000 of 3458707
92.5201% 3200000 of 3458707
1278765ms th_a database.cpp:3486 apply_hardfork ] HARDFORK 9
1422136ms th_a database.cpp:3508 apply_hardfork ] HARDFORK 10
1767867ms th_a database.cpp:3514 apply_hardfork ] HARDFORK 11
95.4114% 3300000 of 3458707

and the output of top:

top - 16:00:43 up 4:51, 1 user, load average: 1.07, 1.09, 1.06
Tasks: 70 total, 2 running, 68 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 2.4 us, 9.4 sy, 0.0 ni, 0.4 id, 87.8 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st
KiB Mem: 1017712 total, 948276 used, 69436 free, 48 buffers
KiB Swap: 4194300 total, 1250564 used, 2943736 free. 2276 cached Mem

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1671 root 20 0 2400684 713580 1400 D 19.0 70.1 34:13.70 steemd
28 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 3.7 0.0 10:57.18 kswapd0
1 root 20 0 33352 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.86 init
2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 kthreadd
3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.40 ksoftirqd/0
5 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/0:0H
7 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:08.08 rcu_sched
8 root 20 0 0 0 0 R 0.0 0.0 0:07.39 rcuos/0
9 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rcu_bh
10 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rcuob/0
11 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0

If there is any other information I can give anyone to help please just ask - I could really do with some suggestions as I don't really know where to go from here.

thanks for taking the time