Is there a way to run this miner and only globally tax my CPU for 10 %.
I'd like to casually run it as a process on boot without worrying my desktop is going to explode.
You can try making a batch file and executing the miner like this:
cmd /c start /LOW "%0" jhPrimeminer.exe -o http://ypool........
This will give the jhPrimeminer process low priority which means that in case other processes needs power they will get it. Originally the miner was written to have process/thread priority set to "BELOWNORMAL" but in some of the releases the developers may have changed this back to normal.
You also can control the number of CPU cores a process is assigned to by using the "/affinity" parameter. The following example will set the miner run on core 0,1,4,5:
cmd /c start /affinity 0x33 jhPrimeminer.exe
Good stuff, Thank you so much for taking the time to reply!
Before you replied I tried setting "-t 1" and that seemed to reduce the load on all my cores to 10-30%.
Is this also a workable solution? (Looks like it would still mine 1 XPM / Day with my 2500K)
I actually prefer working with all cores, but taxing them all to a minimum, or whatever setting ensures the lifespan of my CPU.
Anyway on this affinity setting "/affinity 0x33"
How do I know what this means? How does this translate into Core: 0, 1, 4, 5
How would I set it to only use Core 0 or Core 1 for example?
