You shouldn't need to disable OpenSSL - I was able to compile with homebrew OpenSSL on mac. From searching around it looks like it can be tricky to get large pages working at all with mac memory management. I think they have other crypto libraries they want developers to use. I know on Sierra, openssl is still some version of 0. I'm pretty sure the headers are absent in El Capitan as well. It looks like it isn't using the headers from the version brew installed. I've only run this on El Capitan or Sierra myself and I usually compile with gcc. Granted, I have 16 gigs of memory, but I've never had issues getting large pages to work on my macs. If I get an error allocating the large pages, I have to restart. Have you tried a restart? Do you have a low amount of memory or automatically open a lot of apps on login? Now, the aeon port is another story. I got large pages allocation errors on that across 4 different machines on a clean boot. But good old upstream xmr-stak-cpu started right up afterwards without issue. Granted, I have 16 gigs of memory, but I've never had issues getting large pages to work on my macs. If I get an error allocating the large pages, I'm not sure I follow you - are you saying large page support is working for you in xmr-stak-cpu, or in general with other programs? Updating my mac build instructions here, which requires until it gets merged. This is on Mac OS Sierra 10. I wanted to test latest dev branch as I was using older code. I just compiled myself a new xmr-stak-cpu Large pages are definitely still working for me on a macbook pro 2015 w dual core i7. FYI, this hardware gets the largest improvement I've seen. On the imacs I have, the improvement was less drastic but still very noticeable. I do however get an error with the new hwloc stuff: hwloc: can't bind memory I use gcc6 to compile. I have had large pages working on 8 macs, every one I tried, Sierra and El Capitan, although I only actively mine on 4 of them these days. I don't mine on the 2 macbook pros or 2 minis any more due to heat concerns, I don't care as much about the 4 imacs. Maybe try gcc instead of clang? I don't know what hwloc is, haven't looked into that. I follow instructions and compile successfully on MAC. Could anybody tell me how to solve the problem hwloc and mmap?? Mining works on my mac but can't see any differences between fireice-uk version and rsanheim which I tried for the dev-mac branch, but I think I has been merged now. Sorry I'm quite new to xmr, still trying to squeeze any bit of perf.
