|
Title: Mining with virtual cores? / Limiting them? Post by: derrend on July 23, 2013, 07:21:17 PM Hi everyone,
I'm cpu mining with an intel i5 dual core which is virtualised into 4 cores on ubuntu, when i give the command 'setgenerate true 3' to the qt client, what does it mean? system monitor shows that the unused core is kind of spread over over all 4 threads and the graph lines it generates become spaghetti. Am i breaking my cpu?? Thanks in advance. Title: Re: Mining with virtual cores? / Limiting them? Post by: ZirconiumX on July 31, 2013, 08:14:36 AM That sounds like the threads aren't properly bound to cores.
Try using cpuminer as that properly binds threads to cores. https://github.com/jgarzik/cpuminer I strongly doubt you are breaking your CPU, but as a general rule, try to mine with a power of two number of cores (1, 2 or 4 in your case) to avoid things like that. Matthew:out Title: Re: Mining with virtual cores? / Limiting them? Post by: OtaconEmmerich on August 01, 2013, 08:52:29 AM While this may not break your CPU fast, It's not worth CPU mining as you will NEVER make a profit and will be making a LOSS doing it.
|