Ubuntu 16.04.
When I start cpuminer-opt 3.7.6 on a 48 CPU system, in top/htop I can see only 32 CPUs are used (unexpected).
When I start cpuminer-opt 3.7.3 on a 48 CPU system, in top/htop I can see 48 CPUs are used (expected).
Didn't try other versions.
Command line:
# ./cpuminer -c config.conf -q
********** cpuminer-opt 3.7.6 ***********
A CPU miner with multi algo support and optimized for CPUs
with AES_NI and AVX2 and SHA extensions.
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CPU: AMD EPYC 7401P 24-Core Processor .
SW built on Dec 15 2017 with GCC 5.4.0.
CPU features: SSE2 AES AVX AVX2 SHA.
SW features: SSE2 AES AVX AVX2 SHA.
Algo features: AVX AVX2.
Start mining with AVX2.
[2017-12-15 22:06:13] Starting Stratum on stratum+tcp://address:port
[2017-12-15 22:06:13] 48 miner threads started, using 'lyra2z' algorithm.
[2017-12-15 22:06:13] Stratum difficulty set to 10
config.conf:
{
"url" : "some-url:port",
"user" : "some.01234.worker",
"pass" : "pass",
"algo" : "lyra2z",
"api-bind" : 0
}
I presume this is the same system using both versions of cpuminer-opt.
I've reviewed the changes I made for 64 CPU support and they should only have an effect when
there are more than 64 vcores. It's as simple as if num_cpus > 64 do something different else
do as usual.
I can find no reason why it behaves differently or why it maxes at 32.
Test both versions with -D, the debug output may provide a clue.
Edit: Also is there anything unusual about that system? Any virtualization or NUMA?