It's CPU-friendly coin, sounds interesting. My question is, has Yenten still been profitable for miners? If yes, I will definitely join the party. Thanks all.
my only concern with this coin is that it takes up 99% of cpu power when only the wallet is running and even when it is not syncing. is this normal? i would like to know.
Are you sure that your wallet is not mining?
I think i see what you mean. if i close minerd it still runs at 100%, but if i delete the yenten.conf and restart the wallet then it doesn't use all that cpu. thanks.
You probably had gen=1 set in the yenten.conf. This sets the wallet to automatically start mining when you open it.
As a side note, I've found that I get nearly equal hashrates running on half of available threads as running on all of them. So you may be wasting your cpu power running at 100%. In addition, the algorithm seems to rotate between threads at regular intervals when you set it this way(so for example for a 4 thread machine set to 2 threads it will run on threads 1 and 2, then 1 and 3, then 3 and 4, etc. randomly). I'm not sure if this is unique to this algorithm or is how yescrypt also works, but it's interesting.
Yeah I did have gen=1. So was my miner going slow because of that? I've been finding a lot of blocks so maybe it didn't matter.
You're right about the threads. On my i7 it looks like it maxes out at 4 threads:
1 thread = .23 khash/s
2 thread = .23 khash/s each thread, .46 khash/s total
3 thread = .17-.19 khash/s each thread .54 khash/s total
4 thread = .14-.16 khash/s each thread .6 khash/s total
5 thread = .12 khash/s each thread .6 khash/s total
6 thread = .10-.11 khash/s each thread .6 khash/s total
So what is limiting the hashrate?