Quick Noob question: With the new cpu miner is it better to have high Sieve and PTest
for example; Sieve 756000 PTest 815000 or low like below?
Sieve 400000 PTest 425000
Got 2 old computers i'm using and have done research of the miners stats and best settings
But I was unsure on which is better high or low?
Thank you in advance
The numbers of Sieve and Ptest represents the average time the miner spends sieving and testing prime numbers in one batch. As a result when you compare a miner between 2 machines running with the exact same parameters set in miner.conf the lower numbers indicates faster performance.
In general the goal is to configure the miner to have the highest WPS. The trick is balancing the Sieving thread and prime test thread parameters in the miner.conf. The optimal values can be different for each architecture, (number of CPU cores, CPU speed, memory speed, hyperthreding, VPC, etc)
The ultimate goal is to have the highest 6ch/m and 7ch/m rate, which not necessarily linear to the WPS indicator. I mean I can configure the miner to have higher WPS but the 6 and 7 ch rate will drop.
Some explanations of the parameters, finding the optimal values and how the miner works can be found here:
http://nxsforum.com:4567/category/9/cpu-mining