cpuminer mines only on one core regardless of "--threads" option

Volodymyr Kostyrko c.kworr at gmail.com
Tue Jan 14 13:55:58 UTC 2014


14.01.2014 15:01, Alexander написав(ла):
> Hello!
>
> on Freebsd 9.2 x64 on 5 different PCs I installed net-p2p/cpuminer from ports and by "pkg install" - result is the same - minerd mines only on one core regardless of "--threads" option.
>
> If I start with "--threads" < 1 for example "--threads=3" - minerd start 3 threads BUT in ONE core - so in "top" it looks like 100% on 4-core CPU (but it must be about 300%).
>
> Without "--threads" option minerd determines 4-core CPU and start 4 threads in ONE core (4 x 2,5 khash/s, but with "--threads=1" speed is 1 x 10 khash/s, so with "--threads=4" it must be 4 x 10 khash/s)

minerd itself doesn't bind any process/thread to any specific core. And 
it just works for me now.

Can you show your configs or logs? What does `minerd` say, what does 
`limit`, is there any other changes to your default configuration that 
can possibly limit this.

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