Topic: Bitmain S4 running 3 pools in balanced mode (Read 664 times)

I was solo mining Ck's pool with F2pool & Nicehash... All at the same time.. in balance mode..

I did look thru my site stats & nothing was there...

I did look thru my miner stats & i was getting a lot of stales & a lot of orphans on all pools..

It ended up at one stage my miner was telling me i had popped 13 blocks in about 2 hours...

When i powered down my miner & powered up again, My miner wouldn't hash & i had to re install my sd card to get it to work again..

Bitmain has said in the past if u fuck around with cg miner in ssh u can break ur miner...

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My experiment taught me a few things thou...

If u balance or load balance an Antminer C1 or S4 thru SSH in wont save on reboot & if u try save in thru cgminer, Things will get wacky..

Also when u load balance or balance the SSH the miner never reaches its full speed

Example = S4 = 2TH when split across 3 pools in either balance mode the max u get is about 400gh on either pool at the same time meaning ur shorting ur self about 800gh doing this.

A better thing to do is to rotate across 3 pools at 20 min intervals, Make sure u solo mine 1 pool, & whatever other pools u use pay out on Pay per share not any other method to maximise ur payments.

To do rotate SSH into miner & then :

screen -r

to get cgminer then P for pool management

then change from failover to rotate (2) for (20 mins)

This will not save on restart, I'm still waiting for someone to help me with that..

Which pools are you connected to? Is it a Prop pool? if so you can check your statistics in there. Also F2pool can tell you also if you found a block.

I'm not sure what was happening but i was messing around with cgminer in ssh & think the blocks it found were either stale or orphaned, Not too sure what caused it but i actually broke the software on the sd card & had to fully reinstall it on both a C1 & an S4

Ok so i have a problem...

My miner is telling me i found a block but i'm running 3 pools in balanced mode so i dont know what pool i hit the block on.

Is there anyway i can find out if what pool i hit the block on??

Like any logs hidden in the miner?