have you tried it with more than a couple of pools? cgminer has had no problems with as many pools as I want (if a pool goes down, or I want to switch coins, I do not want to shutdown the miner to switch) butbfgminer doesnt play nice with alot of pools, so far anyway. I am in the process of editing 3 .conf files with 6/6/5 pools each for bfgminer, so as to just swap them in and out when I need to, as 6 pools loaded is fine, I can switch easily between pools or management strategies that way. but it would be nice if it would just play nice (it will load and hash with the 17 pools in the conf, it crashes if I type "p" to go change them however.
I have a lot of pools in my config, I've never tried to switch with a "p", I use the API
how do you use the api to switch pools?
also after several hours playing with be's ants drivers and bfgminer I gave up on it (again) went back to cgminer on two comps and everything is hashing nicely. I dunno why, I have tried with bfgminer several times and it is always annoying configuration. Cgminer always works for me. Not worth the bother to drop a 1.5% error rate to 0+/- Ideally a new cgminer will eventually be able to handle Ants without hw errors and with support for multiple usb miner types etc. I may try again tomorrow, as I do love to learn and hate it if something doesn't work ^^
