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In the Select Users, Service Accounts, or Groups dialog box, add an account that you will run the miner on
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Reboot for change to take effect.
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You may also need to launch the miner as administrator.
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Allowing large pages on Linux
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Firstly stop the miner (if it's running), run the following commands to enable large pages and then start the miner as root:
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You may have to increase 1168 depending on how many NUMA nodes your CPU(s) have.
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Allowing large pages on macOS
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Huge pages are not supported on macOS.
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Balance Not Increasing
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Most pools are <abbr title="Pay Per Last N Shares">PPLNS</abbr> pools,
which means that you only get paid when a miner on the pool finds a
block. If the pool you are mining on is small, this can take a few
days to weeks.
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Additionally, any blocks found must mature before they can be paid out. This takes 60 blocks (approx. 2 hours).
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Getting Help
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An active Monero mining community on Reddit is [/r/MoneroSupport](https://www.reddit.com/r/MoneroSupport/). You can also join [#monero-pools on Libera](https://web.libera.chat/?channel=#monero-pools) or Matrix (#monero-pools:monero.social).
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Going Futher
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Consider using a subaddress just for mining, to prevent your address being linked to different services.
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[Consider using Tor to connect to the pool](https://xmrig.com/docs/miner/tor) (or to a hidden service pool like HashVault, RespectXMR and MoneroOcean). This hides mining activity from your ISP, and prevents the pool from knowing who you are.
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