XMRig for AEON

XMRig is high performance AEON CPU miner, with the official full Windows support. Based on cpuminer-multi with heavy optimizations/rewrites and removing a lot of legacy code.

Table of contents

• Features
• Download
• Usage
• Algorithm variations
• Build
• Common Issues
• Other information
• Donations

Features

• High performance (1100+ H/s on i7 6700).
• Official Windows support.
• Small Windows executable, only 430 KB without dependencies.
• Support for backup (failover) mining server.
• keepalived support.
• Command line options compatible with cpuminer.
• It's open source software.

Download

• Binary releases: https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig-aeon/releases
• Git tree: https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig-aeon.git
  • Clone with git clone https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig-aeon.git

Usage

Basic example

xmrig.exe -o mine.aeon-pool.com:3333 -u YOUR_WALLET -p x

Options

  -o, --url=URL         URL of mining server
  -b, --backup-url=URL  URL of backup mining server
  -O, --userpass=U:P    username:password pair for mining server
  -u, --user=USERNAME   username for mining server
  -p, --pass=PASSWORD   password for mining server
  -t, --threads=N       number of miner threads
  -v, --av=N            algorithm variation, 0 auto select
  -k, --keepalive       send keepalived for prevent timeout (need pool support)
  -r, --retries=N       number of times to retry before switch to backup server (default: 5)
  -R, --retry-pause=N   time to pause between retries (default: 5)
      --cpu-affinity    set process affinity to cpu core(s), mask 0x3 for cores 0 and 1
      --no-color        disable colored output
      --donate-level=N  donate level, default 5% (5 minutes in 100 minutes)
  -B, --background      run the miner in the background
  -c, --config=FILE     load a JSON-format configuration file
  -h, --help            display this help and exit
  -V, --version         output version information and exit

Algorithm variations

• --av=1 Single hash hardware AES.
• --av=2 Double hash hardware AES.
• --av=3 Single hash software AES implementation.
• --av=4 Double hash software AES implementation.

Single vs Double

Single hash variations required 1 MB CPU L3 cache for one thread for optimal performance, double hash required 2MB per thread. Double hash usually better choice, less CPU usage and a fairly high hashrate.

Example with Intel i7 6700:

AV	Threads	H/s	CPU usage
--av=1	4	600	50%
--av=2	4	1000	50%
--av=1	8	1150	100%

Build

Ubuntu (Debian-based distros)

sudo apt-get install git build-essential cmake libcurl4-openssl-dev
git clone https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig-aeon.git
cd xmrig-aeon
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
make

Windows

It's complicated, you need MSYS2, custom libcurl build, and of course CMake too.

Necessary MSYS2 packages:

pacman -Sy
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc
pacman -S make
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-pkg-config

Configure options for libcurl:

./configure --disable-shared --enable-optimize --enable-threaded-resolver --disable-libcurl-option --disable-ares --disable-rt --disable-ftp --disable-file --disable-ldap --disable-ldaps --disable-rtsp --disable-dict --disable-telnet --disable-tftp --disable-pop3 --disable-imap --disable-smb --disable-smtp --disable-gopher --disable-manual --disable-ipv6 --disable-sspi --disable-crypto-auth --disable-ntlm-wb --disable-tls-srp --disable-unix-sockets --without-zlib --without-winssl --without-ssl --without-libssh2 --without-nghttp2 --disable-cookies --without-ca-bundle --without-librtmp

CMake options:

cmake .. -G "Unix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCURL_INCLUDE_DIR="c:\<path>\curl-7.53.1\include" -DCURL_LIBRARY="c:\<path>\curl-7.53.1\lib\.libs"

Common Issues

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• Run XMRig as Administrator.
• Enable SeLockMemoryPrivilege. For Windows 7 pro, or Windows 8 and above see this article.

Other information

• No HTTP support, only stratum protocol support.
• No TLS support.
• Default donation 5% (5 minutes in 100 minutes) can be reduced to 1% via command line option --donate-level.

Please note performance is highly dependent on system load. The numbers above are obtained on an idle system. Tasks heavily using a processor cache, such as video playback, can greatly degrade hashrate. Optimal number of threads depends on the size of the L3 cache of a processor, 1 thread requires 1 or 2 MB of cache.

Maximum performance checklist

• Idle operating system.
• Do not exceed optimal thread count.
• Use modern CPUs with AES-NI instructuon set.
• Try setup optimal cpu affinity.
• Enable fast memory (Large/Huge pages).

Donations

• XMR: 48edfHu7V9Z84YzzMa6fUueoELZ9ZRXq9VetWzYGzKt52XU5xvqgzYnDK9URnRoJMk1j8nLwEVsaSWJ4fhdUyZijBGUicoD
• BTC: 1P7ujsXeX7GxQwHNnJsRMgAdNkFZmNVqJT

Contacts

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