I tried dstm ZM miner for a week and was not so happy with it
Most important, cpu utilization was too high, with EWBF my cpu usage is around 10-15%, with ZM it is over 60%
Hash rate looks more stable though. with ewbf gpu utilization is playing 98-100, but ZM has all GPU locked on 100%
And I had a wierd problem with ZM, I disconnect network, and ZM was only showing "Slow Network" for over 15 minutes.
Dont know where it gets the works to keep all gpus at full 100%
That is an interesting observation on CPU usage so I looked into mine. I am at 38% on a 7x1070 GPU rig with the piddly little Celeron G3930 CPU running ZM with telemetry option [--telemetry=$IPW:42000]. I have never paid any attention to CPU utilization at all on my nvOC based miners because they are obviously dedicated to mining and I have not noticed sluggishness that would cause me to look into it.