Title: XMR-Stak VS CPUMiner-opt Post by: NoloConosco on June 05, 2018, 10:24:24 PM I apologize in advance if this is in the wrong thread or already discussed; I could not find the answer.
Im relatively new to mining and compiling miners and hoping someone could guide me a bit. I used to mine coins from Cryptonight family using XMR-STAK. I like XMR-STAK because of its low CPU usage and good Hashrate. I recently started mining other algos using other miners and have become a fan of YescryptR16. I use CPUMiner-OPT to mine YescryptR16 but it uses 100% CPU power. I did a comparison of both miners on CryptonightV7 with my i7 for 5 minutes each-
I understand that they're different miners, made for different things but how can I make CPUMiner-OPT use less CPU power without sacrificing Hashrate (like XMR-Stak)? Or is there another miner for YescryptR16 that is the XMR-Stak equivalent? Thank you in advance for your guidance. Title: Re: XMR-Stak VS CPUMiner-opt Post by: NoloConosco on June 05, 2018, 10:39:54 PM I mined XMR for a short time and I preferred XMR-Stak (self-compiled with lowered dev-fee). If you'd like to compile it on your own and don't know how to do it you could check this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgK8dhKmxc0 It's not the best but it should show everything you need. Thanks, I appreciate the quick reply and link. I've been looking at videos for compiling both but can never seem to get it working correctly. Will keep trying. Title: Re: XMR-Stak VS CPUMiner-opt Post by: 4ward on June 06, 2018, 04:45:07 AM I apologize in advance if this is in the wrong thread or already discussed; I could not find the answer. Im relatively new to mining and compiling miners and hoping someone could guide me a bit. I used to mine coins from Cryptonight family using XMR-STAK. I like XMR-STAK because of its low CPU usage and good Hashrate. I recently started mining other algos using other miners and have become a fan of YescryptR16. I use CPUMiner-OPT to mine YescryptR16 but it uses 100% CPU power. I did a comparison of both miners on CryptonightV7 with my i7 for 5 minutes each-
I understand that they're different miners, made for different things but how can I make CPUMiner-OPT use less CPU power without sacrificing Hashrate (like XMR-Stak)? Or is there another miner for YescryptR16 that is the XMR-Stak equivalent? Thank you in advance for your guidance. cryptonight needs 2mb l3 cache per thread for best efficiency, and xmr-stak detect cache and sets correct amount of threads it also support large pages, which increase memory access speed cpuminer-opt, doesnt support large pages and doesnt autodetect l3, so you need to manually set thread count "-t X" to make it more efficient, but even then it will not reach xmr-stak speeds Title: Re: XMR-Stak VS CPUMiner-opt Post by: s0ftcorn on June 06, 2018, 06:08:23 PM best CPU miner for any cryptonight variation is JCE CPU Miner. Give it a try and maybe tweak it extensively for maximum hashrate
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