I've now started mining with ethminer, however, even though it is correctly using my GPU (its usage is constantly at 100%), the program is also maxing out two of my four cores, to the point where their temperature is higher than the GPU's, I thought it was supposed not to use it, expecially because considering that using the CPU for mining is basically a waste of energy.
By the way, my graphics card is an NVIDIA gtx970 and my processor is an i7-4790k.
Ive noted this before when using Nvidia and the stock Ubuntu ppa ethminer. I switched to genoils and the problem was solved .. my CPU's mow run around 3 - 4 % while mining
I've eventually found a solution the problem was not ethminer, but rather geth that for some reason was mining using the CPU. To solve it's enough to run geth with the command
geth --minerthreads 0
change -G to -U solved this for me.
-G,--opencl When mining use the GPU via OpenCL. -U,--cuda When mining use the GPU via CUDA.
In some cases (unfortunately many), the processors in Windows 10 show 100% usage. From what I understand the problem grows according to the number of GPUs. Windows 10 overloads processors that have few flames when GPUs are more than the threads.
I found some tweaks for windows 10 and achieve more than 50% less CPU usage.
New CPU Usage: 45%
Just let me know about your results.
Have a nice mining!
