Wolf's XMR/BCN/DSH CPUMiner - 2x speed compared to LucasJones' - NEW 06/20/2014

[tc61]

wolf, looked for a help readme but could not find one..thanks for the info.

[MadGhost]

wolf, looked for a help readme but could not find one..thanks for the info.

No problem... maybe I should include a readme or something.

readme would be helpful for the first time users, also the ones who are new to mining.

[tc61]

wolf, another quick question, I was trying to run the miner, while still doing some gpu mining , but when I do so, the % of good hash on the gpu miner starts to take a hit. I even tried just using 1 thread out of the 4 but it still degrades the gpu miner performance, any tips?

[tc61]

wolf, another quick question, I was trying to run the miner, while still doing some gpu mining , but when I do so, the % of good hash on the gpu miner starts to take a hit. I even tried just using 1 thread out of the 4 but it still degrades the gpu miner performance, any tips?

Hm... try lowering the priority of the CPU miner and/or raising the priority of the GPU miner in Task Manager. Whatever you do, do NOT use the "Realtime" setting - it always locked my systems up.

Figured it out, I had to set the affinity of processor to not steal from each other

[ivanlabrie]

Wolf0, I've ran folding at home using alinux VM before (virtual box) and it ran like native Linux on the CPU side of things.

you could make a prebuilt mining is image for windows users to mine with. Might get you some extra tips too
what do you think?

[tequillaquagga]

Have someone compiled it on OSX?

[sparks2013]

Hello all,

Has anyone successfully compiled Wolfs cpuminer under centOS 6.4?

I tried for a couple hours yesterday to make it work, and even removed some of the values under the makefile but can't seem to get it to compile.

I'm stuck on this error..

./cpu-miner.c:1065: error: ‘MADV_HUGEPAGE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
./cpu-miner.c:1065: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
./cpu-miner.c:1065: error: for each function it appears in.)

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[AceCobra1]

Any updated miners ? The GPU now seems to have a massive advantage over CPUs now on monero

[smooth]

Any updated miners ? The GPU now seems to have a massive advantage over CPUs now on monero

Massive advantage how? Claymore reports 600 H/s on a 290x, which is about double what you get on a fast desktop CPU, but it also costs about twice as much. I see no major advantage to GPUs at this point, they are just another reasonable option.

[azhago]

Any updated miners ? The GPU now seems to have a massive advantage over CPUs now on monero

Massive advantage how? Claymore reports 600 H/s on a 290x, which is about double what you get on a fast desktop CPU, but it also costs about twice as much. I see no major advantage to GPUs at this point, they are just another reasonable option.

A 280x do ~400H/s
If you are a miner, you surely have one or more rigs, with several GPUs on each.
Having multiple CPU is a bit more complicated/expensive.

My rig with 5 280X perform @ 2300H/s
My dual xeon 2687w do ~740H/s with Wolf cpu miner and cost a lot more than the rig

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My rig with 5 280X perform @ 2300H/s
My dual xeon 2687w do ~740H/s with Wolf cpu miner and cost a lot more than the rig

DP xeons are really, really expensive compared to desktop CPUs. I don't know the most efficient recipe for a CPU mining rig, but that's certainly not it. Also consider power usage. The most power hungry CPUs are 130W, most are less. Every high end GPU is higher.

[azhago]

If you consider cpu mining, you should consider the whole PC consumption, not just CPU.
Making a "traditional" desktop computer with a 4770K will cost more thant a GPU.

[Agamemnus]

If you consider cpu mining, you should consider the whole PC consumption, not just CPU.
Making a "traditional" desktop computer with a 4770K will cost more thant a GPU.

You're thinking from a single minded perspective. You are actually seeing the INTENTIONAL limitation of this algorithm.

My kids have a 2500k each and they get 110H/s when the CPU is at 50% the whole time they're on it. They use this miner in Windows. Measured AT THE WALL the power consumption goes up by 30w when the miner starts if the PC was at idle, when I have Hearthstone running in window mode, it is only going up by 20w with the miner.

So effectively, regular crappy $300 computers that I bought for my kids are getting me 110H/s for somewhere between 20w and 30w depending on what they're doing. An R9 280x draws around 300w from the wall at full power, if Claymore's miner is only using half their power, it would be 150w.

To break even in H/s you'd need to be getting closer to 660H/s per card, your results show 460 per card.

This means that people can't just buy a crap tonne of equipment and own the coin. It was intentionally made to be this way.

EDIT: Forgot to mention that the kids don't think it affects their gameplay. They play mostly Hearthstone, Path of Exile, Diablo 3, League of Legends and DotA 2.

[smooth]

If you consider cpu mining, you should consider the whole PC consumption, not just CPU.
Making a "traditional" desktop computer with a 4770K will cost more thant a GPU.

You're thinking from a single minded perspective. You are actually seeing the INTENTIONAL limitation of this algorithm.

My kids have a 2500k each and they get 110H/s when the CPU is at 50% the whole time they're on it. They use this miner in Windows. Measured AT THE WALL the power consumption goes up by 30w when the miner starts if the PC was at idle, when I have Hearthstone running in window mode, it is only going up by 20w with the miner.

So effectively, regular crappy $300 computers that I bought for my kids are getting me 110H/s for somewhere between 20w and 30w depending on what they're doing. An R9 280x draws around 300w from the wall at full power, if Claymore's miner is only using half their power, it would be 150w.

To break even in H/s you'd need to be getting closer to 660H/s per card, your results show 460 per card.

This means that people can't just buy a crap tonne of equipment and own the coin. It was intentionally made to be this way.

EDIT: Forgot to mention that the kids don't think it affects their gameplay. They play mostly Hearthstone, Path of Exile, Diablo 3, League of Legends and DotA 2.

Well said. As I have explained before, there is a role for GPU mining, which is why I am currently the largest individual contributor to the bounty for an open source GPU miner. However, GPU mining is not dominant for this algorithm the way it is for most others, merely competitive (as you correctly explain, by design).

[dewdeded]

How to compile under OS X.

1.) ./autogen.sh
2.) ./configure CFLAGS="-march=native -mno-avx"
3.) edit Makefile, search string "-fuse-linker-plugin", delete this string/option from the "AM_CFLAGS" setting
(e.g. "AM_CFLAGS = -Ofast -flto -fuse-linker-plugin -funroll-loops \" becomes "AM_CFLAGS = -Ofast -flto -funroll-loops \")
4.) make
5.)
6.) mine monero, take money, get bitches
7.) profit!

[AceCobra1]

What is the stratum for moneropool.com ?

[Casu]

What is the stratum for moneropool.com ?

How about mining on a different pool? They took it off the site for a reason.

[3xpl0r3r]

I keep getting "Stratum authentication failed....retry in 10 secs.  Anybody around??  On xmr pool

[5w00p]

I keep getting "Stratum authentication failed....retry in 10 secs.  Anybody around??  On xmr pool

There are some pool(s) that got DDOS'd.

Use wolf's pool, it is up and only 1% fee.

http://pool.cryptoescrow.eu/

Sample code to run minerd: minerd -o stratum+tcp://mine.cryptoescrow.eu:3333 -u YOUR-WALLET-ADDRESS -p x -t 4

[3xpl0r3r]

Already doing that.  Must be something on my end.