What does "miner speed 10s/60s/15m" mean in XMRig?
In XMRig, “miner speed 10s/60s/15m” shows your mining speed averaged over the last 10 seconds, 60 seconds, and 15 minutes. These are three views of the same miner, not three separate speeds to add together. They help you see how fast your computer is working right now and whether that speed stays steady.
How to read the three numbers
XMRig is mining software that uses your computer to perform calculations. Its speed is called hashrate: the number of mining calculations, or hashes, it completes each second.
You might see a line like this:
miner speed 10s/60s/15m 2450.0 2410.0 2380.0 H/s
Read the numbers in the same order as the labels:
- 10s: 2,450 H/s — your average speed over the past 10 seconds.
- 60s: 2,410 H/s — your average speed over the past minute.
- 15m: 2,380 H/s — your average speed over the past 15 minutes.
H/s means hashes per second. If you see kH/s, that means thousands of hashes per second: 2.45 kH/s equals 2,450 H/s.
These example numbers only illustrate the display. They are not an expected speed for your computer.
Why the numbers are different
Each average covers a different stretch of time. The 10-second number reacts quickly when your mining speed changes. The 15-minute number changes more slowly because it includes much more of your recent activity.
Your speed may shift when:
- You open another program that uses your processor.
- Your processor gets hot and slows down to protect itself.
- Your computer changes its power-saving settings.
- You change XMRig’s settings or pause mining.
For example, if you close a demanding program, your 10-second speed may rise first. The one-minute and 15-minute averages will catch up as more time passes.
Small differences are normal. They do not, by themselves, mean something is wrong.
Which number should you watch?
Use 10s for a quick check that XMRig is working and responding to changes. It is useful immediately after an adjustment, but too short to judge lasting performance.
Use 60s for a less jumpy view of your current speed. It can help you compare small settings changes, provided you let the miner settle between tests.
Use 15m to judge sustained speed. Let XMRig run for at least 15 minutes, ideally with a similar background workload and stable temperatures, before treating this number as representative.
Soon after startup, you may see n/a instead of a number. This means XMRig does not yet have enough recorded data for that average. It is not automatically an error.
What these figures do not tell you
These numbers measure work your miner performs locally. They do not directly show how much XMR you have earned or whether your mining pool has accepted that work.
A mining pool, which combines work from multiple miners, estimates your contribution from submitted results called shares. Its displayed speed can differ from XMRig’s because shares arrive unevenly and the pool uses its own averaging period.
Check XMRig’s accepted-share messages as well as its speed. A healthy-looking hashrate alone does not confirm that results are reaching the pool.
The bottom line
Read the values as short, medium, and longer-term averages of the same mining speed. Watch 10s for immediate changes and 15m for a steadier picture; never add the three numbers together.
