Topic: can i run two miner process same time? (Read 103 times)

In other words, If I wanted to use nichash and mine Vivo on altminer, I can?

You can do it.

I'd suggest you look at what your actual hash rates are.  hint: context switching is not effective mining time.

i am able to run same miner twice as separate processes, is it bad?
On miner with 4 gpu-s i issued miner along with necessary parameters twice and second time I issued it simply spawned another process and nvidia output shows there are miners for each GPU running.


Current nvidia-smi stat:
Sun Feb  4 10:45:24 2018
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 384.98                 Driver Version: 384.98                    |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  GeForce GTX 1080    Off  | 00000000:02:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
|  0%   56C    P2    90W /  90W |   1264MiB /  8114MiB |    100%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
|   1  GeForce GTX 1080    Off  | 00000000:03:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
|  0%   54C    P2    88W /  90W |   1264MiB /  8114MiB |    100%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
|   2  GeForce GTX 1080    Off  | 00000000:04:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
|  0%   50C    P2    90W /  90W |   1264MiB /  8114MiB |    100%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
|   3  GeForce GTX 1080    Off  | 00000000:05:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
|  0%   50C    P2    92W /  90W |   1264MiB /  8114MiB |    100%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                       GPU Memory |
|  GPU       PID   Type   Process name                             Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|    0     12835      C   ...v/mining/nvidia/linux/miner-ewbf//miner   627MiB |
|    0     12976      C   ...v/mining/nvidia/linux/miner-ewbf//miner   627MiB |
|    1     12835      C   ...v/mining/nvidia/linux/miner-ewbf//miner   627MiB |
|    1     12976      C   ...v/mining/nvidia/linux/miner-ewbf//miner   627MiB |
|    2     12835      C   ...v/mining/nvidia/linux/miner-ewbf//miner   627MiB |
|    2     12976      C   ...v/mining/nvidia/linux/miner-ewbf//miner   627MiB |
|    3     12835      C   ...v/mining/nvidia/linux/miner-ewbf//miner   627MiB |
|    3     12976      C   ...v/mining/nvidia/linux/miner-ewbf//miner   627MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+