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Using Claymore's miner: if I have 32GB+ of RAM, do I still need to set 16GM of virtual memory?
I've switched over from QTminer to Claymore's to test it out. I saw the instruction to set 16GB of virtual memory but figured that if I had 32GB of RAM it would be fine without it. (Not running other programs in the background.) I've been running it for 7 hours thus far and I haven't had any issues besides stutter when moving the mouse; hashrates had a minor bump from 57MH/s to 60MH/s (dual Fury X setup, Crossfire still enabled). I am getting a small amount of stale shares, a little more than usual, but I don't know if that's from the client or just my luck at the moment.
Anyways, do I still need to have 16GB of VRAM? I'd like to ask this from the crowd with rigs that have more memory. It's been kinda hard searching for a straightforward answer.
Anyways, do I still need to have 16GB of VRAM? I'd like to ask this from the crowd with rigs that have more memory. It's been kinda hard searching for a straightforward answer.
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I think claymore's advice about virtual memory is mostly unneccessary, and also written at a time when the DAG was generated by the CPU in system memory. Nowadays, claymore (and latest genoil 110 branch) builds the DAG directly on the GPU, and very little system memory is used at all.
I used to setup any new rig with a large static-sized pagefile, but now I don't increase it at all. On machines with excessive RAM, I disable pagefile or set to tiny like 128MB, as usual
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Also, the mouse stuttering is because intensity is set high by default, when mining on my desktop, I add
"-ethi 4" to the commandline, this brings the intensity down from the default (8, max is 16) and lets me play games/watch movies/transcode video, etc, while still mining.
Anyone else??
I figured it was the miner intensity but it's fine where it's at. I don't mind the stutter and I'm thinking about hooking up my MacBook Pro to my monitors anyways to use that instead. I've just about had it with Windows as of late. Out of curiosity, would setting it to `-ethi 16` improve rates?