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Board Mining software (miners)
Re: Official CGMINER thread - CPU/GPU miner in C for linux/windows/osx
by
ancow
on 18/08/2011, 11:44:18 UTC
The CPU mining component of cgminer is annoying me as random bugs keep coming up, I have no incentive to work on it, and I am quite against CPU mining as a concept any more. Unless someone gives me a good reason to work on it any more, I'm going to recommend people go back to the original cpuminer code or ufasoft, and I will code out the cpu mining component of cgminer. Comments please!

I'd also prefer it if it didn't go. I'm not sure how many people are affected by my scenario, but I have a few computers that, when I switch them on, run for quite a while with barely any load, just sitting there and wasting energy. If I use the linux cpu governors' ignore_nice_load option, these machines will at least do something useful while running without using a whole lot more energy than if they just sit idle.

Being able to use the same configuration files across these computers as well as the ones I GPU mine on is a major attraction of cgminer, as far as I'm concerned.