Crypto Mining on Mac's: Forum

Aliveca7 wrote: Wed Jan 01, 2025 10:05 am hello. late to the party I know, but how does one "change the directory" bit of a terminal noob here. got everything else correct so far

in terminal type

System:
MacBook Pro 16" November 2024 | Mac16,5
Apple M4 Max | 16‑core CPU | 40‑core GPU
128 GB Ram
1 TB SSD
macOS Sequoia 15.1.1


Hardware Overview:
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: Mac16,5
Model Number: Z1FW00076LL/A
Chip: Apple M4 Max
Total Number of Cores: 16 (12 performance and 4 ...

System:
MacBook Pro 16"
Apple M3 Max | 16‑core CPU | 40‑core GPU
128 GB Ram
2 TB SSD
macOS Sonoma 14.1.1


Hardware Overview:
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: Mac15,9
Model Number: Z1CM000MBLL/A
Chip: Apple M3 Max
Total Number of Cores: 16 (12 performance and 4 efficiency)
Memory: 128 ...

System:
MacBook Pro 16"
Apple M2 Max | 12‑core CPU | 38‑core GPU
96 GB Ram
2 TB SSD
macOS Venture 13.4



ethminer 0.19.0-17+commit.ce52c740.dirty


Average: 19.87 Mh



ethminer-macos-macbook-pro-16-m2-max-crypto-mining.jpg



ethminer 0.19.0-17+commit.ce52c740.dirty
Build: darwin/release ...

System:

Apple M2 Pro Mac Mini
32 GB RAM
12-Core CPU
2 TB
macOS Ventura 13.2.1


MacMiner v0.4.3.3 Results:

9.75 Mh/s
Apple M2 Pro
OpenCL 1.2


mac-miner-mac-mini-m2-32g-ram-results.jpg



XMRig v6.19.0 Results:

4436 H/s


Apple M2 Pro (1) 64-bit AES
L2 36.0MB
12/12 Ready Threads ...

UselethMiner


Combined Hashrates CPU + GPU = 32 MH/s average.

For UselethMiner Installation & Usage for macOS ARM see --> here.



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[2022-05-13 15:10:12] UselethMiner v0.23
[2022-05-13 15:10:12][SYSTEM ...

For anyone getting this:


[CONTROLLER][BUG] Thread varying cannot be used if (also) GPU mining, it kills performance for an unknown reason


You're using the wrong parameter. Try:


--flavor armv8af --size 64 -t 20 --flavor-gpu metal --size-gpu 128

Hey there! I'm super confused about uselethminer.

Commands only run when I use the full path from ~
/usr/local/uselethminer/uselethminer COMMANDSHERE
But when I cd into that dir and run a command it does not... weird, anyways...

To see all available commands:
/usr/local/uselethminer ...

Updated....

No, but assuming you are tracking this