Topic: [ANN][Pool][Profit-Switch][Optional Auto-Exchange per Coin][Vardiff] ~ Hashcows - page 171. (Read 347329 times)

I hope this was an estimation error:

1624   IFC   01:08:01   3   196608   0   0   1645.22   194962.78    0.000034 BTC

If not it was more than an hour thrown away.

I still find it odd that often hashcows will end up sitting at something like MEC while there are coins like CAP that are nearly double the profitability yet it doesn't switch, I really wish we could see some indication of it considering switching or when it will switch if it is a time based thing. Furthermore I think looking at it from a proportional profitability method for changing is missing the point as if you have a coin you are mining at 1000% profit and there is a coin at 1100% obviously you still want to mine the 1100% even though it is only 10% more profitable than the current coin it is still a whole nother factor of profitability that can change 0.05 to 0.055 which is pretty important to me at least.

As Sparhawk76 has pointed out, CGB has been disabled for now.

Regarding some other coins, I'm guessing the reason why we are not switching to some of the more profitable ones we have enabled in the pool is due to lack of buying support on the exchanges.  Just because a coin has 1000% profitability does not mean we should switch to it straight away, other calculations have to be taken in to account as well.

Look back through the days posts in the thread ...

I wish whatever algorithm is used to decide when to change coins worked better. I understand it not switching to ALF just because it is the most profitable for only a minute or two and then drops far down the list,but often I see that the pool will be mining a coin WAY down the profitability list for a long stretch of time, and not switching to a better coin that is known to have long enough retargets to warrant the move (Such as CAP, CGB, DMD, ect.)

For example it has been mining MEC for 45 minutes straight, even though MEC has spent almost that entire span of time below LTC. Right now there are six coins the pool carries that would be better, with CGB in particular being almost twice as good as MEC. It's not like the profitability of these other coins just recently went up either. Earlier today it was stuck mining MEC at 450% when Diamond fluctuated between 1,000 and 700% for at almost an hour.

I have noticed this happening often in the last week or so, but just now decided to mention it. Didn't want to come off sounding like a dick, but the pool is leaving a bunch of profitability on the table so I figured I would chime in.

EDIT:

It switched about 5 minutes after I posted. For whatever reason it went to WDC at 500% instead of CGB which is still over 700%. CGB has been at this rate for about an hour and is the most profitable coin the pool offers, but it still hasn't switched to it.

Another word of advise:

THE most important cgminer flag is:

--verbose

Without it the miner's not telling you if you are getting any errors at all. So while your KH/s may be sky-high (like the poster's above us), you're just mostly spewing garbage to the pool without even realizing it.

My payment looks pretty low it was 0.01214 per MH.

I agree on the intensity and thread concurrency settings, those are the most important to max out hashrate. You also might look into the number of threads. (  -g 1 or -g 2 )
Also important : the catalyst driver. My 6990 does best on 11.3, 7970 however needs 12.6

Note : I stopped using --auto-fan for temp control. This is just killing fans. Had 3 died because of this.
Rather use CGwather, as it lowers intensity when temp is too high.

Could someone please post last day's hashrate and payout? Thank you.

Some updates....

CAP and CGB currently disabled.  We've got a new CAP client, though I ran into an error or two running a script, haven't had time to confirm if it was just an older artifact or an actual daemon problem. Hopefully we can re-enable tomorrow.  Undecided on what to do with CGB currently.   If its expected we may run into 40-50 blocks at a time being orphaned (though we've never seen it until tonight), then it likely deserves a fairly decent profitability hit.  I'll dig into this more tomorrow/later as well.

We've also been adding some LTC traded coins, such as FLO, MEM, XNC, IFC.  This is where the bulk of our time has been spent recently, ensuring the trade flow for these coins is smooth and functional.  These are currently in a somewhat 'beta' status, we are keeping a close eye on their performance, and will look for more to add if they prove profitable.

On the short term agenda:

* Code fix for minor daily outage
* Change ledger to be total historical record not just last 50
* Roll out diff caching to Hybrids (its been in place for non-hybrids for a week now)
* Roll out optional static and static-minimum diff options, likely including a drop in pool target diff, to help our low end miners hit their cached diff quicker.
* Start looking into implementation of 2nd stratum server, ideally on the North American West Coast.

More or less in that order.

That is slow... I get 645-670KH/sec on my 7950s...
intensity 20
thread-concurrency 40960
shaders 1792
gpu-threads 1
gpu-engine 1080
gpu-memclock 1250
gpu-vddc 1.020,1.01,1.003,1.07
gpu-powertune 0

I use to run my 4 x 7950 in low power mode getting 550kh/sec plus high power mode 7970 to get 715kh/sec total hash @ 2.9gh/s @ total power at wall of 1460 watts (Corsair AX1200i watt PSU) and now I run all boards at high speed with total hash of 3.3gh/sec and @total power at wall of 1250watts.  Saved 210 watts and gained 400kh/sec just by undervolting the gpus.
I had put my Rig in the big Living room now... It is a nice Heater for the whole house.. (cooler up north now) Wife hates it but if I am gonna pay for heating, I want a chance to make some money back.

CGB has been addressed (for now).  the 1611 MEC round stats aren't correct, we are working on updating them, we earned ~1500 coins or so.

MEC round cleared up

MEC and CBG killing the profits... lower their profitability plz...

Round #   Coin   Length   Mature Blocks   Mature Coins   Immature Blocks   Immature Coins   Coins Paid Out   Coins for Auto-Trade   My Est. Earnings
1611   MEC   01:28:01   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
1610   MEC   00:02:01   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
1609   CSC   00:00:-1   282   14100.08   7   350   550.24   13549.84   0.000006 BTC
1608   CGB   00:22:56   0   0   0   0   0   0   0. BTC
1607   CSC   00:10:45   204   10200.04   0   0   356.31   9843.73   0.000257 BTC

We are looking into some issues with the last few rounds...will update here in a few!

CGB isn't having PoS 'problems'...PoS overrules PoW by design.  Long sequences of PoS blocks happen even for PPC, but it's about ten times more likely for CGB because of the one minute PoS blocks.  But PPC isn't susceptible to multipool hash spikes that can instantly double or triple the network hash rate, many dozens of times throughout each day.  Consequently there are roll backs when multipool or hashcows points their hashing at CGB right when a PoS block lands and/or in the middle of a sequence of PoS blocks.  PoS isn't the most friendly kind of coin for multipooling.  It's the risk you take when mining at multipools.

CGB has been temporarily disabled until it's fixed.

Yeah after some pretty troublesome hours, with reading into all of it, setting up 2 setup configs (one for the time, when im on my pc and one for the sleeping/working hours) and a oc profile, i jumped from the 15 kh to ~670kh. And after i finished alll of this (damn, this were 7 troublesome hours procrastinating from my study stuff lol) i just recognized, that it's Kh and not Mh. Is this normal for alt-coining? When I'm on BTC (with the normal settings), im on around 450 Mh/s. This kinda freaked me out, when i noticed that, right as i finished the tuning.

Thanks for the help mate.

CGB having PoS problems. All orphans.

We were manually fixing things because CGB is having problems. Everything is a-ok

Looks like there might be some problems recently, rounds 1608-1610 ?

A 22 minute CGB round with 0 blocks.
A CSC round with a time of 00:00:-1
A 2 minute MEC round with no blocks, and now we're on MEC currently for a long time.