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Ethereum : When your done with windows 10 breaking and rebooting your miners…

Ethereum update: When your done with windows 10 breaking and rebooting your miners…


Since the Windows 10 1803 update every miner i have has either needed a reinstall or has been so consistently high maintenance that I’ve replaced windows 10 with Linux.

If you have Nvidia graphics cards, Windows 10 is being a high maintenance diva and on the fence about switching to Linux to run your miners here’s a few things to consider and some config files to share that i’m sure someone might find useful 🙂

Key things to note. windows 10 x64 1803 install used 80 GB of disk space, consistently used 40% cpu and 4 GB of ram just to run a miner. like what the fuck!?

The bonus round… windows update was so broken that it was using 80% cpu and retrying to download the same windows update for a week

Switched to [Gentoo Linux](https://i.imgur.com/dmeWD.png)…

Using 2% cpu, 1.2 GB of ram and 15 GB of disk space and it will NEVER REBOOT unless i want to lol…

Enjoy the Linux brain dump from [an old time Gentoo Linux master.](https://www.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/comments/8as322/anyone_interested_in_prebuilt_gentoo_install/)

As this sub has helped me in the past if this aids anyone else with avoiding the cancer that windows 10 has become i’ve contributed something beneficial.

[Nvidia Gentoo Linux miner config file setup and perspective pastebin.](https://bpaste.net/show/0d29bd64f334)

Notable things to mention… this setup is using the intel gpu for the primary display device and the nvidia gpu’s as secondary devices and cuda/opencl works perfectly.

Running SDDM login manager from kde plasma is sufficient to keep the gpu’s from going into low performance mode while the setminer.sh script configures all of the nvidia fan and power target throttling 90 seconds after bootup.

With IGPU Multi Mode force enabled in the bios the igpu always enables when the system is rebooted.

Hardware used is of course an Asus z270-a motherboard.

Cliffs notes you might be asking what is the significance all of those config files…? That’s almost everything besides a Linux kernel config file you would need to build your own uefi bootable Gentoo Linux install with full multilib 64/32bit app support.




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