LiteCoin mining is slow!!!

[tom10122]

My cpu mines btc at 12mhashes and then it only gets 2khashes on litecoins , whats going on?

Edit: My log thing is only saying longpoll found new block, is that good or bad?

[bitcoinsarefun]

My cpu mines btc at 12mhashes and then it only gets 2khashes on litecoins , whats going on?

Edit: My log thing is only saying longpoll found new block, is that good or bad?

Without knowing what kinda of cpu you have or what program you are using - thats normal.

I only get about 5.5khashes per thread

Post some more details though, maybe someone with the same cpu would chime in

[matthewh3]

Different rates I think between BTC and LTC and do you use Windoze if so it's probably hogging all your resources.  I use Lubuntu which is very light on resources and get over 4KH/s per core even when using my PC to browse and listen to internet radio, then get up to and over 6KH/s per core when I shut everything down using a Pentium D.  Also are you using the dedicated 'cpuminer' or just the default one that comes with the wallet as 'cpuminer' get's better results. 

[tom10122]

i'm getting 5 now but still , not that much , my processor is a amd anthlon x4 . Yeah im running windows , if i dual boot will it run better?

[bitcoinsarefun]

check out this thread -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=55038.0 ... it will give you an idea of what people get ...

I get about 33-35 khashes altogether

[matthewh3]

i'm getting 5 now but still , not that much , my processor is a amd anthlon x4 . Yeah im running windows , if i dual boot will it run better?

You can install and remove *buntu using Wubi - http://wubi.sourceforge.net/ like any other Windows program so you don't have to partition your hard-drive.  Just choose Lubuntu before you install as it's the lightest.  All versions of Ubuntu are a lot lighter on resources and Xubuntu is my favourite.  If you really want to push it login into Openbox desktop and make sure you have no programs running in the background.  Your also a lot less likely to loose your coins due to malware and viruses using any *nix OS.

[aaa801]

Code:

[2012-02-26 23:33:17] 8 miner threads started, using 'scrypt' algorithm.
[2012-02-26 23:33:17] Long-polling activated for http://litecoinpool.org:9332/LP

[2012-02-26 23:33:18] thread 3: 4096 hashes, 4.73 khash/s
[2012-02-26 23:33:18] thread 4: 4096 hashes, 4.71 khash/s
[2012-02-26 23:33:18] thread 2: 4096 hashes, 4.58 khash/s
[2012-02-26 23:33:18] thread 6: 4096 hashes, 4.29 khash/s
[2012-02-26 23:33:18] thread 1: 4096 hashes, 4.28 khash/s
[2012-02-26 23:33:18] thread 0: 4096 hashes, 4.02 khash/s
[2012-02-26 23:33:18] thread 7: 4096 hashes, 3.92 khash/s
[2012-02-26 23:33:19] thread 3: 1659 hashes, 4.92 khash/s
[2012-02-26 23:33:19] thread 5: 4096 hashes, 3.39 khash/s
[2012-02-26 23:33:19] accepted: 1/1 (100.00%), 34.11 khash/s (yay!!!)

usauly goes upto 40 but im usign the cpu atm

[tom10122]

why does it show thread 7? i thought a thread = a core

[aaa801]

why does it show thread 7? i thought a thread = a core

i have a 8 core cpu

[tom10122]

why does it show thread 7? i thought a thread = a core

i have a 8 core cpu

i feel dumb now lol completly forgot