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Title: [QUESTION] Zcash nheqminer. How to limit CPU usage? Post by: metador on October 31, 2016, 03:48:14 PM Does anyone have an idea how I could reduce CPU usage using nheqminer ? I tried to change threads to -t 1 but it still works at least at ~30% cpu. I want to reduce to ~10% cpu so I could still use my Windows Machines for my needs but also mine at least a little bit.
Maybe someone did it yourself by editing miner code? (https://github.com/etherchain-org/nheqminer) Or maybe there is another option? Maybe there is bored C++ developer who would take a look at what could be done to achieve this :D Title: Re: [QUESTION] Zcash nheqminer. How to limit CPU usage? Post by: toptek on October 31, 2016, 04:18:51 PM Does anyone have an idea how I could reduce CPU usage using nheqminer ? I tried to change threads to -t 1 but it still works at least at ~30% cpu. I want to reduce to ~10% cpu so I could still use my Windows Machines for my needs but also mine at least a little bit. Maybe someone did it yourself by editing miner code? (https://github.com/etherchain-org/nheqminer) Or maybe there is another option? Maybe there is bored C++ developer who would take a look at what could be done to achieve this :D I don't think you cam yet it just controllers how many cores your using to mine with i was using 6 cores to mine on one of my PC and watching movies , doing other stuff it didn't seem to impact it . Title: Re: [QUESTION] Zcash nheqminer. How to limit CPU usage? Post by: metador on October 31, 2016, 08:59:43 PM I don't think you cam yet it just controllers how many cores your using to mine with i was using 6 cores to mine on one of my PC and watching movies , doing other stuff it didn't seem to impact it . I see, what a shame :( Title: Re: [QUESTION] Zcash nheqminer. How to limit CPU usage? Post by: d57heinz on October 31, 2016, 09:20:30 PM Add -t 0 to the command line see if that helps The number being amount of threads/cores you want to utilize while mining.
Title: Re: [QUESTION] Zcash nheqminer. How to limit CPU usage? Post by: metador on November 01, 2016, 02:09:16 AM Add -t 0 to the command line see if that helps The number being amount of threads/cores you want to utilize while mining. That will just disable cpu mining at all :D I wish it would work like that. Or like 0.5 threads. Title: Re: [QUESTION] Zcash nheqminer. How to limit CPU usage? Post by: generalt on November 01, 2016, 03:12:26 AM Add -t 0 to the command line see if that helps The number being amount of threads/cores you want to utilize while mining. That will just disable cpu mining at all :D I wish it would work like that. Or like 0.5 threads. So if you have 4 cores you can do -t 2 so it only uses two threads. Wouldn't that limit the CPU usage a little? Title: Re: [QUESTION] Zcash nheqminer. How to limit CPU usage? Post by: metador on November 01, 2016, 10:31:22 AM So if you have 4 cores you can do -t 2 so it only uses two threads. Wouldn't that limit the CPU usage a little? Well, i wrote in my first post that i tried using even -t 1, it still unfortunately uses at least 30% cpu. -t 2 uses even more. Title: Re: [QUESTION] Zcash nheqminer. How to limit CPU usage? Post by: malefactor on November 01, 2016, 11:01:03 AM Have you even confirmed that constant consumption of 30% CPU is actually a problem for you? Very few things constantly consume CPU; the only one that comes to mind is 1080p (and up) decode of youtube that can be taxing.
This particular miner seems more memory-hungry than CPU. I've had to upgrade my rigs to deal with it. |