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I am mining Monero offline using ./monerod --ofline on a Windows 10 Pro virtual machine with 2 VCUs in Microsoft Azure.

Mining is performed in M2SYS using the start_mining command with 2 threads (this is the maximum).

I use show_hr to view the hash rate.

The initial hash rate average was 65 h/s. I left it running overnight and noticed that at somepoint the hashrate dropped to 17 h/s. This was an instant drop and not a general tapering off.

I am trying to understand why this drastic hash rate fall has happened? I initially thought this could be an issue with cloud hosting when a session is not active however this makes no sense to me as most servers run efficiently without a user being logged in in an active session.

I have since used stop_mining and start_mining 2 to restart mining. However, the hashrate is still much lower than when I first started yesterday. Any ideas? Could this be a timing coincidence with a general change in the monero hashrate - if so, how do I comfirm this?

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  • I also have this issue.
    – James
    Commented Jul 4, 2018 at 10:47

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Mining of cloud based virtual servers will always be poor and susceptible to changes in HR. With virtual servers you are sharing CPU resources, and with CrytoNight, you need 2MB CPU cache per thread for optimal performance. A virtual server will never give you exclusivity over CPU cache, hence you'll see changes. Further, most hosting companies forbid mining, so If they detect it, they'll drop your resources.

TL;DR never mine on cloud virtual servers.

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  • I would disagree with you jtgrassie. I do confirm cloud mining is a bad idea for the obvious reasons you mention, however I doesn't mean we should never mine on virtual server. I do myself on my home esxi farm by using only one mining VM per host, and configuring vCPU such as I can load my host up to its limit. I didn't face any huge hashrate fluctuations. Others would limit their vCPU number to leave enough cache and threads for other vms, but I needed RAM when I builded the esxi cluster, so almost all my CPUs were free to load.
    – el00ruobuob
    Commented Jul 20, 2018 at 20:10
  • The user was asking about cloud mining on virtual servers (azure in this case). That's what I was answering.
    – jtgrassie
    Commented Jul 20, 2018 at 23:02
  • True. But your final statement is shortened than this complete explanation and could be misleading for other users. It should be never mine on cloud virtual servers.
    – el00ruobuob
    Commented Jul 21, 2018 at 4:06

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