Quote from: altpooler on November 18, 2014, 02:25:31 AM

I noticed something interesting today and wanted to see if anyone else has had the same experience.

On my i7 cpu I've been using dcct's miner using 7 of its 8 threads. Around 24 hours ago I had to utilize this machine for other work (non cup intensive work) so I set the miner to use only 3 of the 8 threads. I forgot to change it back to 7 before bed but when I woke up I was happy with the results so I let it go another 12 hours.

Now, around 24 hours later, my rate of finding blocks is around 1 for every 200. Normally with 7 threads I was getting around 1 block for every 600.

Using 3 threads I'm at around 490k pps. With 7 threads I'm at around 740k pps.

Going to let it run like this for another few days and will see if it keeps up as the sample size is too small to make a conclusion at this point.

Anyone else have this experience using a lower thread setting?

Sounds like a run of good luck to me. What I've been doing on windows is setting the priority on the gapminer process to 'low'. This way I don't see any performance decrease on my system when running other applications. When the CPU is not needed, it revs gapminer back up to full power.