primeminer/doc

Xolominer Documentation

This is the xolominer based on the primecoin high performance version of Sunny King's Primecoin tree.

Xolominer features:

• pooled mining client
• getwork-protocol (with longpoll-support)
• code integration into original client

Primecoin tree features:

• Use GMP for bignum calculations in the mining threads
• Replaced some bignum calculations with 64-bit arithmetic inside the sieve
• Reduced the amount of memory allocations
• L1 and L2 cache optimizations
• Process only 10% of base primes when weaving the sieve
• Configurable sieve size

Usage

primeminer [-options]

• -pooluser=[user] Pool worker user name
• -poolpassword=[pass] Pool worker password
• -poolip=[host] Pool mining ip or host address
• -poolport=[port] Pool mining port
• -poolshare=[chainlength] Minimum chain length of submitted shares, default 7
• -genproclimit=[threads] Number of CPU-Threads to use (1-32)
• -minerid=[0-65000] A free-to-choose worker ID
• -poolfee=[1-100] Set pool fee ín percent, if supported by pool

Documentation overview

• Unix Build Notes
• Windows Build Notes
• Coding Guidelines
• Release Process