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Re: Donate your spare CPU cycles to the Shroomery! **Please help beta test!** [Re: Ythan]
    #19305001 - 12/20/13 08:24 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)



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Re: Donate your spare CPU cycles to the Shroomery! **Please help beta test!** [Re: deadwk]
    #19305061 - 12/20/13 08:40 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Oh yeah I should have mentioned, minerd is flagged by some antivirus software because malware sometimes installs it on peoples' computers to mine coins without their knowledge. Of course, we're asking your permission first. :smile: You can read all about the issue on Google. The file itself is not harmful if you are installing it on purpose.


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Re: Donate your spare CPU cycles to the Shroomery! **Please help beta test!** [Re: Ythan]
    #19305098 - 12/20/13 08:48 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Okay cool, I'll give it a read. Can you explain the 100% CPU usage? That seems like more than extra CPU cycles lol.


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Re: Donate your spare CPU cycles to the Shroomery! **Please help beta test!** [Re: Ythan]
    #19305118 - 12/20/13 08:52 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

I don't think giving people supporter accounts and stuff is necessary honestly. You guys do so much for us, I think we could do this one little thing for you guys for nothing.


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Re: Donate your spare CPU cycles to the Shroomery! **Please help beta test!** [Re: deadwk] * 2
    #19305325 - 12/20/13 09:43 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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Okay cool, I'll give it a read. Can you explain the 100% CPU usage? That seems like more than extra CPU cycles lol.




I'm not really sure how better to explain it. The whole point of mining is that it takes a lot of CPU time, so mining software is designed to use as much CPU as possible without slowing down your computer. Mining only happens when there's nothing else for your CPU to work on.

So, say you're browsing the internet and listening to music, and that's using 5% of your available CPU. You still have 95% of your CPU's capacity which is unused or "wasted". Normally your computer would just send "noop" instructions which do nothing (that's what "System Idle Process" is in task manager). Instead, the mining software uses that extra 95%, for a total of 100% utilization.

Then say you start watching a high def video on Youtube and now that's using 20% of your CPU. The mining software scales back and only uses 80%, but between that and Youtube you're still showing 100% CPU load.

If you do something that uses all your processing power, like play a game or encode a video, the mining software won't use any CPU until you're done.

The point is, if the software is making efficient use of your spare CPU cycles, you should see 100% processor usage. Anything less than 100% means there are spare cycles which aren't being taken advantage of. The mining process itself (minerd.exe) won't always be using 100% though, because all other software on your machine gets higher priority and runs first.

Is that a little more clear?

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Re: Donate your spare CPU cycles to the Shroomery! **Please help beta test!** [Re: Ythan]
    #19305631 - 12/20/13 11:10 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Well that was easy to install. It's running just fine for me. Only uses about 5mb or ram.


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Re: Donate your spare CPU cycles to the Shroomery! **Please help beta test!** [Re: Ythan]
    #19305951 - 12/21/13 12:54 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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Oh yeah I should have mentioned, minerd is flagged by some antivirus software because marlware sometimes installs it on peoples' computers to mine coins without their knowledge. Of course, we're asking your permission first. :smile: You can read all about the issue on Google. The file itself is not harmful if you are installing it on purpose.




Thank you for asking. I'll run your bot for a little, but I doubt my 8-12khash will help much.


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Re: Donate your spare CPU cycles to the Shroomery! **Please help beta test!** [Re: The Phleg]
    #19305958 - 12/21/13 12:56 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

can we run this and folding @ home at the same time


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Re: Donate your spare CPU cycles to the Shroomery! **Please help beta test!** [Re: Ythan]
    #19305985 - 12/21/13 01:08 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Do I have to like....keep my computer on all the time?


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Re: Donate your spare CPU cycles to the Shroomery! **Please help beta test!** [Re: VivaLaMushie]
    #19305997 - 12/21/13 01:13 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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Do I have to like....keep my computer on all the time?



No, the program just won't work when the pc is off and it'll start back up again once you restart it.


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Re: Donate your spare CPU cycles to the Shroomery! **Please help beta test!** [Re: VivaLaMushie]
    #19306004 - 12/21/13 01:15 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

You could if you wanted to mine the shit out of it, but that's not the point of the program. It's meant to mine behind the scenes when you're on your computer without bogging you down. Indeed Ythan, I'll be trying this out. It'd be a good way to help the site without people having to necessarily pay out of pocket.


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Re: Donate your spare CPU cycles to the Shroomery! **Please help beta test!** [Re: Godfather1376]
    #19306060 - 12/21/13 01:41 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

I'm not sure if it is the program yet, but since it's been running I'm running into a little trouble loading web pages on Chrome. My rig isn't the issue, it is a 6 core AMD Thuban 1090t with an AMD Radeon 5850. Some pages keep loading forever and not working. However, when I repost the link on another tab it will work just fine. Will look more into what this might be that's wrong.


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Re: Donate your spare CPU cycles to the Shroomery! **Please help beta test!** [Re: Godfather1376]
    #19306103 - 12/21/13 02:05 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Okay, a bit of a problem that I was able to fix but it was strange. First of all chrome would not work correctly, but IE9 did. After install, the install files remained on the processes list. It didn't use much space but definitely shouldn't be there. When I tried to end the .exe process, it didn't work either. the process with the program nss or something of the like had to be closed first. Eventually it uninstalled. I think avast antivirus might have been part of the problem, but I'm not sure. I'll keep messing with it to see if the problem continues.


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Re: Donate your spare CPU cycles to the Shroomery! **Please help beta test!** [Re: Godfather1376]
    #19306120 - 12/21/13 02:14 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Well it turns out avast screwed up the install, but now a new thing has arisen. I'm not sure if it takes breaks or something, but I'm not getting any CPU usage by the program. System Idle Process is using 90%+ all the time and the miner is using 0% and 3mb of memory.


Err, nevermind. It just jumped up to the 80's after I originally posted this. Will report anything else strange that happens. Sorry for the triple post, but a good part of beta testing is bug reporting lol.


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Re: Donate your spare CPU cycles to the Shroomery! **Please help beta test!** [Re: Godfather1376]
    #19306196 - 12/21/13 02:52 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

How will the mined currency be used? Is there some sort of guarantee we aren't just being used?

I know it's a bit of a sus question but still...


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Re: Donate your spare CPU cycles to the Shroomery! **Please help beta test!** [Re: andrewmurray86] * 1
    #19306214 - 12/21/13 03:00 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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How will the mined currency be used? Is there some sort of guarantee we aren't just being used?

I know it's a bit of a sus question but still...



Probably for site upkeep, upgrades,  and for paying admins.

Even if Ythan just pocketed all the money I'd still do it, he is a big part of what keeps this site running for us to use it, not to mention he made the site... But I highly doubt that's how the money is going to be be used.


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Re: Donate your spare CPU cycles to the Shroomery! **Please help beta test!** [Re: TrentBoyett]
    #19306225 - 12/21/13 03:09 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

yeah that's a fair enough reason :smile:


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Re: Donate your spare CPU cycles to the Shroomery! **Please help beta test!** [Re: andrewmurray86]
    #19306253 - 12/21/13 03:21 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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How will the mined currency be used? Is there some sort of guarantee we aren't just being used?

I know it's a bit of a sus question but still...



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Re: Donate your spare CPU cycles to the Shroomery! **Please help beta test!** [Re: andrewmurray86]
    #19306328 - 12/21/13 03:54 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Gave it an hour of running, threw some 480p youtube vids and tested with prime 95. Everything is working as it should, and no bog down that is noticeable. It seems to give away the CPU power to other programs quickly. Going to try some games after I'm done watching videos to see if any real problems come up FPS wise.


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Re: Donate your spare CPU cycles to the Shroomery! **Please help beta test!** [Re: Sell Your Soul]
    #19307005 - 12/21/13 09:03 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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100% CPU! :what:




Ha! not until I upgrade my dying fans and get a new computer case...

Otherwise :sad:


Interesting idea though, I may be able to check it out in a few weeks.


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