nsgminer in an Alpine Linux Docker image
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nsgminer in an Alpine Linux Docker container.
Using an Alpine Linux container gets you a very lightweight image of ~4MB and the benefits of Alpine Linux's security model.
This image is configured to run the miner as a dedicated restricted user. It is also configured to use environment variables as a corresponding parameter values.
export POOL=...
export USER=...
export PASSWORD=...
docker run --restart unless-stopped --read-only -m 50M -c 512 yukoff/docker-alpine-nsgminer --neoscrypt -o ${POOL} -u ${USER} -p ${PASSWORD}
--restart unless-stopped
In case the miner crashes we want the docker service to restart it.
--read-only
This image does not need rw access. If there are bug/exploits in the pool/software you are a little bit more protected.
-m 50M
Restricts memory usage to 50MB.
-c 512
By default container will use <= half of system cores. Setting a relevant share count will protect you from a runaway process locking your system.
nsgminer Arguments--help
All standard nsgminer arguments are supported, using --help will list all of them.
docker run yukoff/docker-alpine-nsgminer --help
-t
When manually setting threads with -t you need to configure the correct CPU shares for docker.
IE if you have 4 cores, each core is worth 256 (1024 / 4), so for miner to use 3 threads CPU shares for Docker must be set to 756:
docker run -c 756 yukoff/docker-alpine-nsgminer ... -t 3
Content type
Image
Digest
Size
3.5 MB
Last updated
almost 9 years ago
docker pull yukoff/docker-alpine-nsgminer