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Decentralized pool for Monero mining
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`--light-mode` question #267

Closed hinto-janai closed 1 year ago

hinto-janai commented 1 year ago

Just making sure: for non-mining P2Pools, is using --light-mode to use just the cache for verification but not have the whole dataset in memory ideal?

https://github.com/SChernykh/p2pool/blob/143960937e4994fc6df6ccd9f02801758b2141b5/src/pow_hash.cpp#L48-L75

i.e, --light-mode skips the first block for dataset allocation, but the cache always gets allocated, which is all we need for hash verification?

SChernykh commented 1 year ago

Yes, this is exactly what it does. --light-mode disables dataset allocation, but RandomX hashes can still be checked.