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authorBitflash <btf01@proton.me>2026-07-31 11:27:50 -0300
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2026-07-31 11:27:50 -0300
commitf05274afd0becc7311fa69aa60b0215f300e5f28 (patch)
tree85f5842158688f59bfe88e3349866687ce0e5551 /src/gui.cpp
parentcca4e0c38595653846d9907650870df8c0768d77 (diff)
randomx: allocate the dataset once, not once per miner thread (#68)
Every miner thread calls RandomXInitDataset at startup. Its only guard is g_fFast, which is set at the very end -- after the ~2 GB dataset has been filled, which takes tens of seconds. So all of them sailed past the guard together and each allocated its own dataset. Measured in production on a 32-core machine running 31 miner threads: the log says "initializing ~2 GB dataset" 34 times, and the process holds 65,127 MB of private pages while its own startup line promises 2142 MB "(~2080 MB shared RandomX dataset + ~2 MB per thread)". The word shared was not true. A 4-core machine showed the same thing at its own scale: 4 allocations for 3 threads. The waste was the mild half. g_dataset is assigned the moment memory is allocated, before it holds anything, so the last thread to allocate swung the pointer out from under threads still filling their own. A miner could then hash against a dataset another thread had not finished writing, and proof of work computed that way is not reproducible by any other node -- the block would be found invalid by everyone, including this node's own verifier, which uses the cache rather than the dataset. This only became reachable with multi-threaded mining (#52); with one thread there was nobody to race. Holding the lock across the whole initialisation is deliberate: a thread arriving mid-init has nothing useful to do until the dataset exists, and blocking is how it waits for exactly that. Verified with three mining threads: one "initializing ~2 GB dataset", one "dataset ready", and 2362 MB of private memory against 2086 MB advertised -- the difference being the 256 MB cache. Before, three threads meant three datasets.
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