Next, open up the config.json you copied or extracted earlier in your
favourite text editor. Scroll down to the line that says
`donate.v2.xmrig.com:3333` and change the text inside the quotes to
the address of your pool. The line below should contain
`YOUR_WALLET_ADDRESS`. Change that to your actual wallet address.
After these modifications, your configuration should look something like this:
```
{
// [...]
"pools": [
{
"url": "pool.xmr.pt:3333",
"user": "43YjW8SZov..."
}
],
// [...]
}
```
## Starting the miner
Windows users can double click on xmrig.exe. Users of other operating
systems should `cd` into the directory that contains XMRig and then
type `./xmrig` and press return.
If you see green messages saying that shares have been accepted,
congratulations, everything is working!
## Troubleshooting
### Anti-virus keeps removing XMRig
Some anti-viruses flag XMRig as malware because it is often deployed
to infected computers to mine without the owner's consent. As it is
your computer and you are configuring the miner to mine for you, it is
safe to add XMRig to your anti-virus whitelist.
### Cannot read/set MSR
On some CPUs, XMRig tries to increase performance by disabling certain
features like your CPU's instruction prefetcher. These operations
require root/administrator, so try right clicking xmrig.exe and
running it as administrator, or running `sudo ./xmrig` on other
systems.
### Algo not known
Find the line in config.json that says `algo: null` and change it to
`algo: "rx/0"`. By default, XMRig expects the pool to tell it which
hashing algorithm to use.
### Huge Pages 0%
#### Allowing large pages on Windows
Taken from [the MSDN](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/database-engine/configure-windows/enable-the-lock-pages-in-memory-option-windows?view=sql-server-ver15):
>1. On the Start menu, click Run. In the Open box, type gpedit.msc.
2. On the Local Group Policy Editor console, expand Computer Configuration, and then expand Windows Settings.
3. Expand Security Settings, and then expand Local Policies.
4. Select the User Rights Assignment folder.
5. The policies will be displayed in the details pane.
6. In the pane, double-click Lock pages in memory.
7. In the Local Security Setting – Lock pages in memory dialog box, click Add User or Group.
8. In the Select Users, Service Accounts, or Groups dialog box, add an account that you will run the miner on
9. Reboot for change to take effect.
You may also need to launch the miner as administrator.
#### Allowing large pages on Linux
Firstly stop the miner (if it's running), run the following commands to enable
large pages and then start the miner as root:
sudo sysctl -w vm.nr_hugepages=1168
sudo ./xmrig
You may have to increase 1168 depending on how many NUMA nodes your
CPU(s) have.
#### Allowing large pages on macOS
Huge pages are not supported on macOS.
### Balance Not Increasing
Most pools are <abbrtitle="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.
Additionally, any blocks found must mature before they can be paid
out. This takes 60 blocks (approx. 2 hours).
## Getting Help
An active Monero mining community on Reddit is
[/r/MoneroSupport](https://www.reddit.com/r/MoneroSupport/). You can
