Title: Any way to back off ethminer by 5% or so? Post by: helloeverybody on October 18, 2016, 08:33:00 AM HI,
Does anyone know if there is a command i can use to limit how much of my gpu ethminer will actually use? because i currently have it running at 99% it causes my web browser to freeze and makes youtube videos etc tricky to watch. Im sure there was a way to limit the usage but cant seem to find out how to do it. Title: Re: Any way to back off ethminer by 5% or so? Post by: YIz on October 18, 2016, 08:53:39 AM HI, Does anyone know if there is a command i can use to limit how much of my gpu ethminer will actually use? because i currently have it running at 99% it causes my web browser to freeze and makes youtube videos etc tricky to watch. Im sure there was a way to limit the usage but cant seem to find out how to do it. Try turning down the intensity or use another miner. I'm using sgminer-gm on my desktop and I'm browsing it and even playing videos games while mining, works pretty well. Title: Re: Any way to back off ethminer by 5% or so? Post by: helloeverybody on October 18, 2016, 08:55:56 AM HI, Does anyone know if there is a command i can use to limit how much of my gpu ethminer will actually use? because i currently have it running at 99% it causes my web browser to freeze and makes youtube videos etc tricky to watch. Im sure there was a way to limit the usage but cant seem to find out how to do it. Try turning down the intensity or use another miner. I'm using sgminer-gm on my desktop and I'm browsing it and even playing videos games while mining, works pretty well. I cant actually find what the command would be for turning down the intensity though. This is all i have in the help file. Options: Work farming mode: -F,--farm <url> Put into mining farm mode with the work server at URL (default: http://127.0.0.1:8545) --farm-recheck <n> Leave n ms between checks for changed work (default: 500). --no-precompute Don't precompute the next epoch's DAG. Ethash verify mode: -w,--check-pow <headerHash> <seedHash> <difficulty> <nonce> Check PoW credentials for validity. Benchmarking mode: -M,--benchmark Benchmark for mining and exit; use with --cpu and --opencl. --benchmark-warmup <seconds> Set the duration of warmup for the benchmark tests (default: 3). --benchmark-trial <seconds> Set the duration for each trial for the benchmark tests (default: 3). --benchmark-trials <n> Set the duration of warmup for the benchmark tests (default: 5). --phone-home <on/off> When benchmarking, publish results (default: on) DAG creation mode: -D,--create-dag <number> Create the DAG in preparation for mining on given block and exit. Mining configuration: -C,--cpu When mining, use the CPU. -G,--opencl When mining use the GPU via OpenCL. -U,--cuda When mining use the GPU via CUDA. --opencl-platform <n> When mining using -G/--opencl use OpenCL platform n (default: 0). --opencl-device <n> When mining using -G/--opencl use OpenCL device n (default: 0). -t, --mining-threads <n> Limit number of CPU/GPU miners to n (default: all CPU threads / 1 GPU) --gpu-mining-buffers <n> Number of GPU mining buffers (default: 2) --gpu-batch-size <n> Mining batch size as a power of 2 (default: 18 => 262144) --gpu-workgroup-size <n> Mining workgroup size (opencl) / threads per block (CUDA). Should be multiple of 8. (default: 128). --gpu-devices <0 1 2 ..> Use selected gpu devices (CUDA only). (default: 0, max 8 GPUs) --high-cpu-load Use this flag to get a tiny bit better performance at the cost of high CPU load. General Options: -v,--verbosity <0 - 9> Set the log verbosity from 0 to 9 (default: 8). -V,--version Show the version and exit. -h,--help Show this help message and exit. Title: Re: Any way to back off ethminer by 5% or so? Post by: YIz on October 18, 2016, 09:05:16 AM Yeah, my bad. turns out that ethminer doesn't have intensity settings. try downloading sgminer-gm or Claymore's instead and see if you are having the same lags. if you do you can start playing with the intensity until you can use the computer normally.
Title: Re: Any way to back off ethminer by 5% or so? Post by: helloeverybody on October 18, 2016, 09:17:16 AM Yeah, my bad. turns out that ethminer doesn't have intensity settings. try downloading sgminer-gm or Claymore's instead and see if you are having the same lags. if you do you can start playing with the intensity until you can use the computer normally. I might have to try that and see if no one else has any ideas. I can still mostly use the computer as im typing on it right now, Its just the problem with the browser crashing from time to time and youtube being a pain in the tits. Im just so used to running ethminer and hoped i could make a small adjustment to the .bat to improve things rather than looking into a completely new miner =p Title: Re: Any way to back off ethminer by 5% or so? Post by: YIz on October 18, 2016, 10:37:06 AM Yeah, my bad. turns out that ethminer doesn't have intensity settings. try downloading sgminer-gm or Claymore's instead and see if you are having the same lags. if you do you can start playing with the intensity until you can use the computer normally. I might have to try that and see if no one else has any ideas. I can still mostly use the computer as im typing on it right now, Its just the problem with the browser crashing from time to time and youtube being a pain in the tits. Im just so used to running ethminer and hoped i could make a small adjustment to the .bat to improve things rather than looking into a completely new miner =p It's really not a problem, changing a miner takes 5 minutes and you might even get a better hashrate. Title: Re: Any way to back off ethminer by 5% or so? Post by: helloeverybody on October 18, 2016, 10:43:59 AM Yeah, my bad. turns out that ethminer doesn't have intensity settings. try downloading sgminer-gm or Claymore's instead and see if you are having the same lags. if you do you can start playing with the intensity until you can use the computer normally. I might have to try that and see if no one else has any ideas. I can still mostly use the computer as im typing on it right now, Its just the problem with the browser crashing from time to time and youtube being a pain in the tits. Im just so used to running ethminer and hoped i could make a small adjustment to the .bat to improve things rather than looking into a completely new miner =p It's really not a problem, changing a miner takes 5 minutes and you might even get a better hashrate. I will download claymores miner and give it a try but im pretty sure last time my antivirus took exception and even when i omitted it, it still wouldnt open it without deleting the file. I just get lazy and like to stick with one that i know works (even if its not working as good as it should ). |