Implement command line argument to set the amount of agents created by the miner

Defaults to the amount of cores available on the CPU

cmd/mist/flags.go

@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ var (
 	DebugFile       string
 	LogLevel        int
 	VmType          int
+	MinerThreads    int
 )
 
 // flags specific to gui client
@@ -137,6 +138,8 @@ func Init() {
 	flag.StringVar(&BootNodes, "bootnodes", "", "space-separated node URLs for discovery bootstrap")
 	flag.IntVar(&MaxPeer, "maxpeer", 30, "maximum desired peers")
 
+	flag.IntVar(&MinerThreads, "minerthreads", runtime.NumCPU(), "number of miner threads")
+
 	flag.Parse()
 
 	var err error

cmd/mist/main.go

@@ -52,19 +52,20 @@ func run() error {
 	config := utils.InitConfig(VmType, ConfigFile, Datadir, "ETH")
 
 	ethereum, err := eth.New(&eth.Config{
-		Name:      p2p.MakeName(ClientIdentifier, Version),
-		KeyStore:  KeyStore,
-		DataDir:   Datadir,
-		LogFile:   LogFile,
-		LogLevel:  LogLevel,
-		MaxPeers:  MaxPeer,
-		Port:      OutboundPort,
-		NAT:       NAT,
-		Shh:       true,
-		BootNodes: BootNodes,
-		NodeKey:   NodeKey,
-		KeyRing:   KeyRing,
-		Dial:      true,
+		Name:         p2p.MakeName(ClientIdentifier, Version),
+		KeyStore:     KeyStore,
+		DataDir:      Datadir,
+		LogFile:      LogFile,
+		LogLevel:     LogLevel,
+		MaxPeers:     MaxPeer,
+		Port:         OutboundPort,
+		NAT:          NAT,
+		Shh:          true,
+		BootNodes:    BootNodes,
+		NodeKey:      NodeKey,
+		KeyRing:      KeyRing,
+		Dial:         true,
+		MinerThreads: MinerThreads,
 	})
 	if err != nil {
 		mainlogger.Fatalln(err)

cmd/utils/cmd.go

@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ func StartMining(ethereum *eth.Ethereum) bool {
 		go func() {
 			clilogger.Infoln("Start mining")
 			if gminer == nil {
-				gminer = miner.New(addr, ethereum)
+				gminer = miner.New(addr, ethereum, 4)
 			}
 			gminer.Start()
 		}()