Re: Building Cheap Miners : My "Secret"

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So are you sure that Loki and XMR have different hashrate results?

It looks like I was wrong as the only difference between Loki (RandomXL) and XMR (RandomX) is the RandomX program size (LOKI is larger).

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Can you provide a clear info about RandomXL?

https://www.reddit.com/r/LokiProject/comments/ceas1a/randomxl_mining

Thanks. Did you see anything incorrect with the command lines I used for the Dual Xeons (see above)?

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--donate-level 0

Unless you have compiled XMRig from the source:

Code:

edit src/donate.h and set all to 0

constexpr const int kDefaultDonateLevel = 0;
constexpr const int kMinimumDonateLevel = 0;

the "--donate-level 0" will default to Donate Level 5%. The lowest you can go is 1% so that would be:

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--donate-level 1

Also I do not set

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--cpu-priority 5

If the system is idle then all cpu cores that you have configured for mining will be going full out even without setting cpu-priority. If you do something like web browsing then that will steal some CPU cycles from mining. I worry if you set cpu-priority to 5 (highest) you may not be able to run other applications because they won't have enough cpu cycles to start or if they do start they may be sluggish.

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Also you do you think the Loki Hashrate is latent XMR hashrate? Ready to move across to XMR?

If they are smart they will.

As I stated earlier I am at a loss in why anyone is currently mining LOKI because the numbers I plug in even with free electricity you will be losing money mining it (because of the pool fee).

HELLO - Thanks for your feedback and concern about not being able to run other applications due to CPU UTILIZATION.

Actually I have the opposite problem. CPUs are running at 58% and so I have plenty of spare capacity. That figure includes running Google Remote Desktop without a problem.

So the CPU is under utilised. How can this be fixed please?

Task Manager show 58% CPU utilization: see https://drive.google.com/file/d/13gGY6jBrF9qpCdjsxpRhlQPoyhpDsqS7/view?usp=sharing

Half the threads are unused. See https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d41Y5YaIscVGkg-kXfpSCYvZvuv_VAEu/view?usp=sharing

If I change the number of threads with ' -t ' to say 13, 17, 24 or even 11 performance goes down and power consumption and CPU usage go up. There are 12 cores and 24 threads.

If I do not use a --cpu_priority with a value of 4 or greater the machine mines slower.

Is it possible to get more from these CPUs?

Thanks in advance.