Timeline for "I go faster as root"
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:25 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Sep 10, 2016 at 13:10 | vote | accept | Clement J. | ||
| Sep 10, 2016 at 13:09 | history | edited | Clement J. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Taken into consideration comments by Gilles and hyc
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| Sep 10, 2016 at 13:05 | comment | added | Clement J. | Thanks you both for these complements.These optimizations are indeed only useful in some limited cases. | |
| Sep 5, 2016 at 18:52 | comment | added | hyc | Note that mlock isn't needed if you've allocated some hugepages for mining. (Huge pages cannot be paged out, so there's no need to call mlock on them.) You get a bigger performance boost from using hugepages, and you don't need root access to use them. (But you needed to be root at some point to configure them.) | |
| Sep 5, 2016 at 17:24 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | These two features improve performance only if there are other things using CPU time on the machine (significant CPU time for niceness, occasional CPU time plus significant memory for locking in RAM), in which case it is probably not desirable that mining takes priority over whatever else the machine is doing. So if that's all that's gained by running as root, it's usually pointless if not undesirable. | |
| Sep 5, 2016 at 8:57 | history | answered | Clement J. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |