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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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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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Huge pages are not supported on macOS.
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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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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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Wallet
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Profitability
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Download Miner
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Windows
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Ubuntu Linux
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The XMRig developer provides pre-built binaries for Ubuntu Bionic (18.04) and Focal (20.04). They may work on other Ubuntu versions, and on other distributions, but this is not guaranteed.
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Scroll down to 'Assets' until you see the correct version for your system. Download this file, extract the archive somewhere memorable, like your desktop.
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Other distributions and operative systems
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Binaries are available for multiple distributions and operative systems, but you can also build the miner by yourself. Take a loot at [XMrig's docs](https://xmrig.com/docs/miner)
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Selecting a pool
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Configuring the miner
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