Low Monero/Electroneum hash rate

Morad Tamer

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Hi everyone
I was tring my CPU (Core i5-4460) with some mining
Using the Cryptonight as the algorithm of choice (Because obvious reasons)
I am herdly ever getting up to 85H/s which is not even half of what some others are getting from the benchmarks results linked here or here
I am using xmrig with latest version of course
and here is a copy of my config file


Code:
{
    "algo": "cryptonight-lite",  // cryptonight (default) or cryptonight-lite
    "av": 0,                // algorithm variation, 0 auto select
    "background": false,    // true to run the miner in the background
    "colors": true,         // false to disable colored output    
    "cpu-affinity": null,   // set process affinity to CPU core(s), mask "0x3" for cores 0 and 1
    "cpu-priority": 5,   // set process priority (0 idle, 2 normal to 5 highest)
    "donate-level": 1,      // donate level, mininum 1%
    "log-file": null,       // log all output to a file, example: "c:/some/path/xmrig.log"
    "max-cpu-usage": 100,    // maximum CPU usage for automatic mode, usually limiting factor is CPU cache not this option.  
    "print-time": 15,       // print hashrate report every N seconds
    "retries": 5,           // number of times to retry before switch to backup server
    "retry-pause": 5,       // time to pause between retries
    "safe": true,          // true to safe adjust threads and av settings for current CPU
    "threads": null,        // number of miner threads
    "pools": [
        {
            "url": "pool.trtl.unipool.pro:3333", // URL of mining server
            "user": "TRTLux8H1aVAttg15oUA7zQQprj9B7HYE2SikNqUPJCf4BoKyApRtPJa7YqAXHtkxHZP64c18QM5NSEYAx8iepzKK732XejZtNw+Mo",           // username for mining server
            "pass": "x",                     // password for mining server
            "keepalive": false,               // send keepalived for prevent timeout (need pool support)
            "nicehash": false,               // enable nicehash/xmrig-proxy support
            "variant": 1                    // algorithm PoW variant
        }
    ],
    "api": {
        "port": 0,                             // port for the miner API [url=https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig/wiki/API]https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig/wiki/API[/url]
        "access-token": null,                  // access token for API
        "worker-id": null                      // custom worker-id for API
    }
}

What am I doing wrong
is there any bios options to enable or disable?
Please help and Thank you so much
 
There are so many variables that could contribute to mining performance

Are you using all СPU cores for mining?
Are you using 'GUI' or 'console'? Console mining gives best performance.
Are other processes running using your CPU time?

It looks like you are paying more per kilowatt-hour than what you are making mining.
 

Morad Tamer

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I am using a console miner
XMRIG to be specific
No I am only using 3 threads as that is what my cache can handle (I know that each instance of the miner wants 2MB of L3 Cache)
I am not sure but I close everything I see when mining
No browser, no File explorer, no monitor anything that can be closed without tinkering with the registry or other unofficial ways