Someone just told me it is not good for a rig to restart it once a day.
What do you think?
why not?
actually if it isn't necessary i don't restart it at all, sometimes when it has been mining for 15 days without restart, i start to see weird things like some of the cards have a higher or lower target power limit than programmed, i can either reprogram the target power limit or reboot, i decide based on the weather, the level of alcohol on my blood and mood
back in the day when i mined with windows, it was a good idea to reboot once a day to prevent weird things, which, on windows, is a heck of a lot more common than linux, so the question is, what happens if you don't?, if sometimes after a day your miner freezes or just unloads, then yes, reboot once a day.
my miners been running for over 3days straight without a restart very stable win 7 64bit auto updates turned off !
#Nemo
I 've got running server 4 years from now on
Ubuntu 12.04 It prompts for reboot at ssh session
nothing beats linux for stability windows miner could never run for 4years staright....
indeed!
they are designed for very different purposes, besides, most ppl mine with windows desktop OSs not windows server OS, windows server is a lot more resilient but still, years away from what linux can do.
in the litecoin era i managed abou 90 Miners, if i had to do it in windows i probably killed myself hehehe
if you have, let's say, less than 20 miners, it's ok, and it's a lot faster to make it work and change miners, also new mining programs usually is available for windows first, but i prefer to sacrifice all that for stability and peace of mind (here power outages are extremely frequent, like 10 or 20 a day, in a rough month, i have been an entire week without power, but mostly are power hiccups, and that fuck windows up pretty bad, i run a specialized linux distro that runs on ramdisk and boots of a usb flash drive, so power hiccups can kiss my ass, and even if the usb flash drive die, i just swap it for another one right there, and i'm ready to go hehe, i can't do that with SSDs because they are pricey!
still... 4 years!! that's pushing