Topic: Bitmain Antminer step by step how to setup Balance Mining Tutorial (Read 12751 times)

this also works at antminer L3+ or D3?

This post inspired me to experiment with managing more than 3 pools through the web interface. Here's my result https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/antminer-s1-managing-more-than-3-pools-from-the-web-interface-623672.

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I'm having a hard time getting this to work.  I followed giletto's instructions, and did end up getting balance mining to work between multiple mining pools but I would like to have the increased control that adding quotas provides.  I have tried leaving the "balance" mod in place while adding n4spd mod...didn't work.  I also removed the "balance" mod and then tried this "quota" mod...again no luck.  Any idea, or does someone have a link to the entire instructions starting from stock?  Thanks in advance for any help provided.

If the miner can access to the pool again, you don't have to do anything, the miner will simple start mining again, without reboot.

Thank you for posting this guide. Saved me a lot of time digging around.   

Quick question. If one of the pools drops off the net for a bit, how long till it recovers if at all? One of my pools is listed as dead, I know it's up because it is working fine with other mining equipment. Will it come back on it's own or do I have to reboot?

Thanks,
Dave

hi, I'm doing wrong? walk into the console, changing the line, and I can not save HELP!

Here's a mod to "/etc/init.d/cgminer" which will allow you to turn on/off load balance with quota using the web interface while still allowing default failover mode.

With this mod, you can still use the web interface to configure the mining pool as normal, using the default failover mode.

However, if enter in quota information for pool1 using web interface, like "65;stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334", then restart will automatically switch to load balance mode.  Note: you need to enter quota info for pool2 or pool3 if not blank.  For example:
65;stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334
35;pool2.xxx.com:3333
0;pool3.xxx.com:3333

In the above case, pool3 will only be used as failover.

To make the change, vi /etc/init.d/cgminer and search for:

        if [ "$_pool1url" != "" -a "$_pool1user" != "" -a "$_pool1pw" != "" ]; t
            POOL1="-o $_pool1url -O $_pool1user:$_pool1pw"
        fi
        if [ "$_pool2url" != "" -a "$_pool2user" != "" -a "$_pool2pw" != "" ]; t
            POOL2="-o $_pool2url -O $_pool2user:$_pool2pw"
        fi
        if [ "$_pool3url" != "" -a "$_pool3user" != "" -a "$_pool3pw" != "" ]; t
            POOL3="-o $_pool3url -O $_pool3user:$_pool3pw"
        fi

Replace it with:

# RMC switch to load balance if quota is found on pool1
pool_switch="-o"
custom_option=
test_load_balance=`expr index "$_pool1url" ";"`
if [ "$test_load_balance" != 0 ]; then
   pool_switch="-U"
   custom_option="--load-balance"
fi

        if [ "$_pool1url" != "" -a "$_pool1user" != "" -a "$_pool1pw" != "" ]; t
            POOL1="$pool_switch $_pool1url -O $_pool1user:$_pool1pw"
        fi
        if [ "$_pool2url" != "" -a "$_pool2user" != "" -a "$_pool2pw" != "" ]; t
            POOL2="$pool_switch $_pool2url -O $_pool2user:$_pool2pw"
        fi
        if [ "$_pool3url" != "" -a "$_pool3user" != "" -a "$_pool3pw" != "" ]; t
            POOL3="$pool_switch $_pool3url -O $_pool3user:$_pool3pw"
        fi

Finally, search for the line that starts with:
PARAMS="$AOPTIONS $POOL1 $POOL2 $POOL3 $_pb --api-listen

and add "$custom_option" into the line like below:

PARAMS="$AOPTIONS $POOL1 $POOL2 $POOL3 $_pb $custom_option --api-listen


Enjoy...

Thank you giletto and BotwinBG.   I was reading the cgminer --help options and was looking into doing this but a search found this post and combining both of your information; I now have a working load-balance pool strategy  53% and 47%  for Pool1 and Pool 2, respectively, and Pool3 is 0% absolute failover (only).

[To be honest; I was going to do a crontab shell script to change the /etc/config/cgminer file every 2 hours.  Good thing I found out cgminer supports a multi-pool strategy, lol.]

You found the right line, the line with the pools and $_pb, even if some commands changed, the line is still the same.

Can you update how to balance mining using the latest firmware. It happens that I did not get the line

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Cool thank you !

Check out the link I posted above by Meni Rosenfeld. You lower your variance.

I read it, understand it, but don't get the point where is the advantage to equally load-balance?

If i have 1Th/s and share in balance over 3 pool, each pool get 333Gh/s, right?

Why to add this command to share with quota depend on the pool size? I mean right now, if i use load-balance and i see my 1Th/s share over 1 day almost exactly over all 3 pools. So what happen with quota? I guess my mining power will not increase, so what is the exactly advance in the quota example?

Seems quite easy actually.

in /etc/config/cgminer


the example above will mine 35% on eligius and 65% on btcguild

then in /etc/init.d/cgminer , in addition to your changes , find


change to , so change -o to -U.

Repeat for POOL2 and POOL3 .

The interest to play around with quotas came from this post - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/mine-in-multiple-pools-to-reduce-variance-78031 .

Ah i got the point. Sorry mate, i can't help you how to do. I guess the syntax should be similar, my advice is, just try? If you got it, please post here. I am sure you must change in the first file, /etc/config/cgminer

Oh...alright , this :

Why you not use the description as i wrote above? This will load-balance!

I mean the quotas for the load-balance as described here https://raw.github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/master/README.

What you mean with quotas?

How can I add quotas?