THE FROZEN CPU MINER--

Sorry, I just watched Ted 2 on DVD... and remember an old SNL skit.  JBM is perhaps too simple...       --scryptr

Phew, I was thinking of another movie with a frozen theme intended for a young audience.

I googled cpuminer-opt and the only thing it found was this discussion. So it's all set.
Thanks to Tanguy for suggesting it.

Thanks for posting your results.

Got an accepted share on x11.
But upping the priority didn't affect the progressive slowdown. Hope it's not a hardware problem...

The share rate is determined by the difficulty. Pools adjust the difficulty based on the hash rate
to prevent powerfull miners from flooding the server frequent small shares. With very low hash
rates the difficulty can reach the minimum while still not achieving the target share submission rate.

Edit: check the hashrate at the pool. I've noticed that the infrequent share submission results in the
pool reported hash rate fluctuates from -50% to 200% of cpuminer's reported hash rate, which tends
to average out at 100%. If the pool reported hash rate is consistent below this range then there may
be a problem.

A key thing to remember is that the miner reports the share rate not the share size. So  the shares
are less frequent but larger, everything else being equal.

Hope this helps.

I have a request for some focussed testing of cpuminer.

I would like some confirmation that the cpu capabilities checking is correct with no false positives
or false negatives.

I need someone with older cpus to test cpuminer on an algo with multiple supported kernels
looking for two things:

1. cpuminer selected a slower kernel when it should have chosen a faster one. You would observe
    this at startup.

2. cpuminer selected a faster kernel on a cpu that doesn't support it. This will likely cause
cpuminer to crash.

Thanks

Good luck with neo, its the same headache on ccminer, so i dont touch it

I found a few cpu miners, neoscrypt based & a few other I zipped into one package for you.
Not sure if they will be of any help, I also have some GPU neoscrypt miner 3.7.8 & below if
you'd like to take a look at those I can add them to the same zip package & host them somewhere?

8 TH didn't get much better results +100 or so, test picture below. As you can see the VB didn't fully
load the cpu 100% so the top numbers this setup could do isn't shown with this miner threw VM.



Edit: Strange while I was off in the windows OS getting this post ready the speed & load on the CPU improved
to around 98/99% load, temps were about the same.

Sure can let me get to my other laptop where they are so I can be sure the version numbers I post are correct.



Edit: here is pretty much the full list of what I have on this rig, shop rigs have many more.
I hardly ever delete anything and the biggest reason most of my HDD's are so full. lol
Forgot to mention everything I have is open source and public free miners. I have no private miners.
Only reason I said anything is because some of I have may no longer be able to be found for download.