have you taken a look at the xmr-stak-cpu miner? without hugepages its only slightly faster than cpuminer-opt, but with hugepages its significantly faster (90-100h/s -> 130-150h/s)
i wondered whether it is possible to also utilize hugepages with cpuminer-opt to gain this significant speedup as well
src is here:
https://github.com/fireice-uk/xmr-stak-cpui really dont like this miner, no cli options, only config file, no api, only some "web interface", would be great to use cpuminer-opt instead
There are a few issues with large pages, like needing to be setup in the OS, need to run as admin on Win.
I need to investigate further.
yes, i have tested the miner on windows, you will need some os settings to be done for it to work (in linux its the same, but easier through grub, i have not tested it there though)
but you can always fall back to "normal" mining without hugepages, as the miner currently also does
i suppose if hugepages support is possible other memory bound algos can be improved as well, hope you can work the hugepages stuff out for cpuminer-opt
cheers
It's a feature for advanced users, more advanced than compiling from source. there's going to be a learning curve
and a lot of pitfalls. The implementation will require a lot of thought to make the introduction as painless as possible,
for me.
BTW I have a fix coming for missing aclocal building from git. It's now needed with configure now gitignored.
Tarball includes both because they are not deleted by make distclean.
both
