Hiveos & XMRIG-NEW & Hugepages

[Anthony]

Hello. It appears that HiveOS does not enable 1GB Hugepages by default, and I am attempting to figure out how to do so. As you can see from the attached images, I have a E5-2699 V3 18 Core Xeon CPU. Each core has 2 hyperthreads – and I have not yet disabled hyperthreading or whatever the Xeon name is for hyperthreading … not yet.

I wanted to figure out how to get HiveOS to enable 1GB Hugepages.

[Anthony]

Found on another website:

Adding support for 1gb_huge_pagez

1)Edit /etc/default/grub by using nano from terminal

sudo nano /etc/default/grub

Navigate to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX and append default_hugepagesz=2M hugepagesz=1G hugepages=3

2. Update grub using command

sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

*Note that “default_hugepagesz=2M hugepagesz=1G hugepages=3” was not a part of the default string of information in HiveOS… this means that even IF you add this information, it will be lost upon upgrading to a new hive image…

For me - this DID NOT WORK.
I’ll try disabling hyperthreading next …

[Anthony]

After disabling hyperthreading in the bios, XMR hashrate increased from 6.4k → 7.8k over the entire 18-Core processor. I’m still hitting a wall when it comes to enabling 1G Hugepages in HiveOS. Does anyone have it enabled or care to share their CPU settings?

Edit:
Adding the following to “Extra config arguments” in the Flightsheet helped:

“randomx”: { “1gb-pages”: true }

[Anthony]

Edit:

Modified Extra Config Arguments (For Intel Xeon), 2GB assigned per core, so with 18 cores, 36GB of RAM is needed.:

“donate-level”: 1
“randomx”: { “init”: -1, “init-avx2”: -1, “1gb-pages”: true, “mode”: “fast”, “numa”: true, “wrmsr”: 15 }

I don’t expect this thread to generate too much interest, but just wanted to post my experiments.

[MasterPoohBear]

Hey there. Well i am interested.
Trying to figure it out
Got a 8gb RAM. This is my current state. Any clues on how to improve it?

[PetrP]

10400F is not good choice for monero mining. It has 12MB L3 cache only. So It is not possible to run max number of threads. I have nearly same results with an old 2640(6/12 cores, 2.5GHz, 2011 socket, 2328-2448MHs) because of 15MB L3 cache. It is possible to get cca 4300MHs (like R5 2600 stock) with high overclock. See link for benchmark results.
https://xmrig.com/benchmark?cpu=Intel%28R%29+Core%28TM%29+i5-10400+CPU+%40+2.90GHz