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Re: [ANN] dstm's ZCash / Equihash Nvidia Miner v0.6.1 (Linux / Windows)
by
wi7chking
on 16/05/2018, 19:31:15 UTC
For people having performance issues on 0.6.1/linux.
Is there a significant CPU-load difference between 0.6 / 0.6.1 on your systems?

Hi DSTM,

I noticed quite a difference in CPU usage between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1 running on vanilla Debian 9.4 (Stretch).
Here it goes: https://imgur.com/a/lNtcqlC

I measured the CPU usages with top over a period of time (around 1 minute or so) and took the average.
The behaviour of 0.6.1 running on my miner is that the last GPU (GPU4) is running at 75% of its capacity.
This rig has 4 GTX 1070 and 1 GTX 1080.  One of the 1070s is GPU4.
That's quite odd (considering the high CPU usage of kworker and some IRQs as well with 0.6.1).
GPU Overclock, memory clock, power limit have been kept identical in the two runs (0.6.0 vs 0.6.1).
The only actual difference is zm executable version.

Hope it helps.  Meanwhile, I reverted to 0.6.0 that uses less CPU and provides a higher combined hashrate on my rig.

Thanks for your good work! Cheers!