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July 09, 2025, 02:20:42 AM
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I am trying to set CPU mining Monero to around 80%, 10 CPU threads.

Here
https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig/blob/beta/doc/CPU_MAX_USAGE.md

shows I can use


Command line

Code:
--cpu-max-threads-hint 100

I put this in my start.bat file, and it does not work.
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July 09, 2025, 02:35:47 AM
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I found an option that works, added

Code:
-t 9

to the start.bat after xmrig.exe.
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