Can one miner log into both the US end EU server at the same time?
I have set a few miners to use both the US and EU servers with "load-balance" on in cgminer.
They do submit shares to both pools but I see stratum disconnects often so I'm wondering if this is because I connect to both servers at the same time.
Hi Flound,
Can you comment on my question if it's a good idea to run both the US and EU server in a load-balanced setting in cgminer.
Why, are you in the middle of the Atlantic ocean?
I can't really answer that, my gut says it would be better to set one as primary and the other as secondary, but I really don't know. I've never run load balanced pools in cgminer.
But you should definitely at least set the US pool as a backup if you're using the EU pool, as the EU pool is currently only a single server.
No, I'm not in the ocean
I'm in the Netherlands which is near the ocean
When you just had the US server and I set your pool as primary, there were often connection problems and it took a while until cgminer switched to the backup. I even had cgwatcher installed to restart cgminer when there were no accepted shares for 1 minute (which happened quite a lot). So a lot of time was wasted with my miners sitting idle
Then I started to run a load-balanced configuration with a LTC pool and cgminer tries to split the load evenly but sends more work to the other pool if it doesn't get new work from the first one, so my hardware always runs at full power.
Since I prefer the multipool concept I thought to set your US and EU server and a third LTC pool and run it load-balanced so your pool gets 66% of my hashing power. So that's where my question comes from.
Even though you haven't run load-balancing yourself, can you let me know if I can log into both the US and EU server at the same time with the same miner and if both the work counts?
