How to increase CPU utilization by Claymore CPU miner for XMR (Monero) mining?

dd2017

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Quote from: tg88 on October 16, 2018, 05:51:23 PM

XMR-stak is better than claymore, perform a test.

Actually no. Even though I agree that Claymore with his closed source obfuscated code and steep dev fee is sh*&, the results "shares-wise" I was getting from it was better.

Here's the stats from nanopool. This one is before the switch when I was using Claymore:

And this is after I switched to xmr-stack:

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Quote from: dd2017 on October 16, 2018, 05:55:37 PM

Thanks.

It's Intel i7-4770 CPU with 8MB of cache and it was already running at -t 4 setting automatically. (At 50% CPU utilization.)

And like I said it's my old PC, so nothing else runs on it.

So, OK having added -t 6 command line now it runs at 75% CPU utilization.

I wish there was a setting to rev it up all the way to 90% or so?

You can try -t 8 or -t 7

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Quote from: tg88 on October 16, 2018, 05:51:23 PM

XMR-stak is better than claymore, perform a test.

Thanks, I'll check that out. Is it this one at github?

Also how's the dev fee on it vs. Claymore?

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Thanks.

It's Intel i7-4770 CPU with 8MB of cache and it was already running at -t 4 setting automatically. (At 50% CPU utilization.)

And like I said it's my old PC, so nothing else runs on it.

So, OK having added -t 6 command line now it runs at 75% CPU utilization.

I wish there was a setting to rev it up all the way to 90% or so?

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XMR-stak is better than claymore, perform a test.

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You need to add–t 3 option, where the digit is equal to the cache of your processor divided by two. For example, if you have an Intel Core i3-8100 3.6GHz 6MB processor, which has 6 MB of cache, then you need to set three, for an Intel Core i7-8700K 3.7GHz 12MB - a maximum of six, but consider that you need to leave the resource to work on the computer.

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I'm using the following tutorial on setting up my old PC for CPU mining of XMR (Monero) with Claymore CPU miner:
https://xmr.nanopool.org/help

I'm using the following command line:
C:\Users\mnrpc\Desktop\clmr\NsCpuCNMiner64.exe -o stratum+ssl://xmr-eu1.nanopool.org:14433 -u key.id.name/email -p x -pow7 1

The miner starts up and runs fine, but its CPU utilization doesn't go above 50%:

It's a designated PC that's not used for anything else. Is there a way to make it use more CPU on it?

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