Another question regarding the multiple pool servers...
I currently have two machines in one location, and two in another. They're both within a few miles of one another, and should probably connect to the East coast server in an ideal world. But instead I have two that appear to be hitting US East, and the other going to Europe. The machines connecting to Europe are getting quite a few idles, and invalid or stales.
It looks like the current load balancing is just a round-robin DNS among the three locations with a 3-hour DNS TTL. Unless there's some other fancy stuff going on in the background, I wouldn't think this would necessarily result in the miners reaching the ideal pool server. On the other hand, it should do a nice job of balancing the load broadly speaking.
Does it matter as far as statistics, payouts, or anything else if one user has workers connecting to multiple BTCGuild servers like this?Much as I'm tempted to connect directly to the server of my own choice, I'm sure that would be against the spirit of what you're trying to accomplish. If everyone did it, the load may not be well balanced at all. [Thanks for answering that!]
Thanks!! Keep up the good work!
I currently have two machines in one location, and two in another. They're both within a few miles of one another, and should probably connect to the East coast server in an ideal world. But instead I have two that appear to be hitting US East, and the other going to Europe. The machines connecting to Europe are getting quite a few idles, and invalid or stales.
It looks like the current load balancing is just a round-robin DNS among the three locations with a 3-hour DNS TTL. Unless there's some other fancy stuff going on in the background, I wouldn't think this would necessarily result in the miners reaching the ideal pool server. On the other hand, it should do a nice job of balancing the load broadly speaking.
Does it matter as far as statistics, payouts, or anything else if one user has workers connecting to multiple BTCGuild servers like this?
Thanks!! Keep up the good work!
The pools are all synchronized, so running miners on multiple pool servers (even if they're on the same machine!) is not going to affect your stats/rewards. I personally have 6 miners, 2 pointed at each pool so I can monitor the pools personally for problems, and compare with problems others report. The DNS is round robin, specifically to keep the pools ROUGHLY even. They don't need a perfect split, which is why I made easy to use addresses to pick one manually.
