1. Because not windows
2. about 250 hours between restarts due to GPU being lost with SMOS on 4GB RAM (2GB free, no swap use at all, 32GB SSD)
This with Claymore 11.7 on SMOS using 9x 1060 3GB Micron
Topic: How does cache/swap works on linux with claymore miner? (Read 62 times)
On typical rigs with 8x rx570 for example when Windows is used then you need to set up 30-40GB swapfile for claymore to work or youll get errors on mining software. But you can setup mining linux os on 8GB flash or so w/o any swap file partition and it still works. There are no swap partitions on USB drive. When hiveos is created with etcher on ssd there are no swap file partitions also. There are os partition few GB and rest of the disk is unused (unalocated space).
1) Why Linux does not require such huge swap file? Or even does not require any swap file at all.
2) Will somehow linux-claymore mining performance or stability increase with added RAM or swapfile?
I have seen dead ssd on mining rigs because of huge amount of data writen in disks. I dont remember data, but when 2 ssds compared - one from typical gaming computer after 3 years - another from mining rig after 3 months, then second ssd got like 10x more data writen on disks then first one. Also on windows swap file usage is huge, but with 8GB of ram only like 2-3 is used for Windows, a little is used by Claymore. Is it possible to set Claymore to use RAM as much as possible instead of using SSD space for swap which is killing SSDs eventually.
1) Why Linux does not require such huge swap file? Or even does not require any swap file at all.
2) Will somehow linux-claymore mining performance or stability increase with added RAM or swapfile?
I have seen dead ssd on mining rigs because of huge amount of data writen in disks. I dont remember data, but when 2 ssds compared - one from typical gaming computer after 3 years - another from mining rig after 3 months, then second ssd got like 10x more data writen on disks then first one. Also on windows swap file usage is huge, but with 8GB of ram only like 2-3 is used for Windows, a little is used by Claymore. Is it possible to set Claymore to use RAM as much as possible instead of using SSD space for swap which is killing SSDs eventually.
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