From 6d06bfb452a6be9393340fd6904a4f4057efc59c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: RobQuistNL Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2020 11:41:58 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update documentation --- documentation/en/hardware-mining.md | 2 ++ documentation/en/mining-lotus-seal-worker.md | 11 +++++++++++ 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/documentation/en/hardware-mining.md b/documentation/en/hardware-mining.md index 16bffaf9c..5578f7d62 100644 --- a/documentation/en/hardware-mining.md +++ b/documentation/en/hardware-mining.md @@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ The setup below is a minimal example for sealing 32 GiB sectors on Lotus: Note that 1GB sectors don't require as high of specs, but are likely to be removed as we improve the performance of 32GB sector sealing. +AMD CPU's are **highly recommended**, because of the `Intel SHA Extensions` instruction set that is available there since the `Zen` microarchitecture. Hence, AMD CPU's seem to perform much better on the testnet than other CPU's. Contrary to what the name implies, this extended instruction set is not available on recent Intel desktop/server chips. + ## Testnet discoveries - If you only have 128GiB of ram, enabling 256GB of **NVMe** swap on an SSD will help you avoid out-of-memory issues while mining. diff --git a/documentation/en/mining-lotus-seal-worker.md b/documentation/en/mining-lotus-seal-worker.md index da87293a5..6cd7b2c7a 100644 --- a/documentation/en/mining-lotus-seal-worker.md +++ b/documentation/en/mining-lotus-seal-worker.md @@ -68,3 +68,14 @@ Worker 1, host othercomputer VMEM: [|||||||||||||| ] 23% 14 GiB/62.7 GiB GPU: GeForce RTX 2080, not used ``` + +### Running locally for manually managing process priority + +You can also run the **Lotus Seal Worker** on the same machine as your **Lotus Storage Miner**, so you can manually manage the process priority. +To do so you have to first **disable all seal task types** in the miner config. This is important to prevent conflicts between the two processes. + +You can then run the storage miner on your local-loopback interface; + +```sh +lotus-seal-worker run --address 127.0.0.1:2345 +``` \ No newline at end of file