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I am ready to begin mining through wallet-cli. However, I am seeing different commands. For example, I have seen "start_mining 4", start_mining 2", etc...
Can I just use the command start_mining?
Thanks for all of your help Miles P. and scoobybejesus!
That number is the number of mining threads to use. If not specified, it defaults to one thread.
Typically, you'll want one thread per 2 MB of cache memory your CPU has available (so 3 threads if you have 6 MB cache, for example).
The number is how many processes are mining. If you dont have a dedicated computer for mining put 2 or 3. Its recommended put the number of physical core for computer dedicated for mining.
