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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: [ANN]: cpuminer-opt v3.9.1.1, open source optimized multi-algo CPU miner
by
malafaya
on 03/06/2019, 12:52:31 UTC
Hi,. joblo!
Nice to see you back!

I noticed a few things in this v3.9.1.1 release:

* --cpu-affinity truncates to a 32-bit value which means one can't use CPUs at or above 32 unless I don't specify affinity at all (which for most algos is worse). I think this has been addressed in the past (regression?)
* Miner now reports failure to affine to CPU x, y, z on startup if the startup processed is not affined to them: I usually affine the command prompt process before launching the miner (used to be a fix to the previous problem and it's also more flexible to me). I hope this does not affect anything performance related.
* I'm consistently getting about 5% less hashrate for yescrypt than with older v3.8.8 for the exact same configuration. I didn't take more metrics but I think some other algos have slightly less performance as well.
* For yescryptR16yespowerR16, I get 2200H/s, quite a bit below the 3000H/s I get with bellflower2015's variant. I suppose this is because you just introduced this algo and still didn't have the chance to tweak it.

Cheers!