Immediately noticed a new command in the bat that doesn't exist in the bat for sigt --mean-net-diff=1.1
Miner reports a speed of 53. I have never mined this algo before, so nothing to personally compare it to, but i did check yiimp benchs- 53 is pretty damn good
After a few minutes i noticed something weird. In the right bottom box, a yellow line saying net diff > mean net diff. The netdiff field in the miner turned red, and the miner just stopped mining. I could see the card idling in afterburner. This went on for a few blocks, then the netdiff field turned green, and the miner resumed. Rinse/repeat every 5-10 minutes or so, with each break lasting about 2-3 blocks.
I guessed that the --mean-net-diff=1.1 was causing this, took it out, and this behavior stopped. Miner just kept on mining.
I'm not sure what --mean-net-diff=1.1 is meant to do, and it's probably there for a good reason. For me, however, it's pausing the miner and makes the gpu just sit there idling for a bit. An idling mining gpu is a sin
well - there is a good reason for this ...
--mean-net-diff=1.1 parameter is designed stopping the miner when the weighted mean of the network's difficulty surpasses an upper bound multiplied by a ratio ( in this case 1.1 ) ...
this is made for people who want to mine only when it's more profitable to do so ( low difficulty ) - but they dont want to miss out in case they 'set-and-forget' the miner running for days and the network diff shoots higher than they estimated due to increased demand ...
this saves power from continuously mining - but also stops the miner from mining in these periods ...
in case you ask - there currently is no switcher for the miner to mine elsewhere at such periods of time as these ...
#crysx