Ethereum update: ethminer w/ CUDA lagging computer while mining?
So I can’t figure this one out even after some searching [1](https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/20743/windows-very-slow-while-mining) [2](https://www.reddit.com/r/EtherMining/comments/6m7uo3/reduce_gpu_usage_in_ethminer/) [3](https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/6g4qu7/keep_computer_usable_while_gpu_mining_ether/). (on the first link, it was the same exact issue except they were on Windows but same RX480 -> GTX1080 situation).
When I had my RX480, there was zero lag whatsoever when using the desktop, browsing, etc. Of course in heavy gaming, I’d have to shut down mining. It was using OpenCL 2.1 and AMDGPU-PRO CL drivers and I was getting about 27MH/s at around 100W, so I feel it should be possible with NVIDIA and CUDA.
The card I have now is a ZOTAC GTX 1080 Mini. Was getting 20MH/s out the box. 25MH/s with a 5315MHz O/C on the memory, and now 36MH/s with the eth pill (shout out to OhGodAGirl… was using ohgodatool for my AMD card previously =)
Any ideas would be great. Increasing or decreasing power limit didn’t do the trick either. If I don’t use CUDA and OpenCL instead, CPU usage is pegged to 100% and the situation is worse. With CUDA, no cpu usage but still slight lag.
Hopefully this isn’t a shortcoming of NVIDIA/CUDA on Linux because it isn’t worth casually mining 24/7 if there’s going to be this noticeable lag on my otherwise speedy machine.
O/S: Ubuntu 18.10 and 396.54 drivers via the ppa:graphics-drivers. Kernel 4.18.5
$ clinfo | grep ‘Platform Version|Device Version|Device Board Name|Max compute units|Max clock frequency|Global memory size’
Platform Version OpenCL 1.2 CUDA 9.2.210
Device Version OpenCL 1.2 CUDA
Max compute units 20
Max clock frequency 1759MHz
Global memory size 8511881216 (7.927GiB)
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