Hi Kano, since BTCGUILD closed down i have used a few pools but none that made me want to stick with them. I happened upon this thread and your attitude and honesty have won me over so i'm pointing my s3+'s at your pool and will keep them there. I see you have written some modifications for the s3 but i can't seem to find the all the information. Is there a thread that explains it fully? Are there any performance gains or is it mainly a graphical change? Thanks in advance!
Firstly the AntS3 README is here:
https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer-binaries/tree/master/AntS3One big change I've added since I merged in the S3 changes into master git is to reduce CPU usage.
You'll find the Load Average spends most of it's time under 1.0 - and that change is advantageous, not harmful.
I basically removed a major CPU waste, doing something unnecessary.
There are a bunch of issues with the bitmain fork of cgminer, which are not in the master cgminer of course.
They are actually listed in the S2 README:
https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer-binaries/tree/master/AntS2down at the initial release
Master cgminer doesn't have the Best Share of Diff setting problem either (they added that problem to some of their versions)
Also, of course, it's the latest cgminer 4.9.2 which means it has all the latest cgminer fixes
The update is not a flash change, just a few reasonably simple steps to extract an archive into the Ant
The archive file is simply a gzipped tar of the changes that are all effectively the source code except for the cgminer binary itself.
The web interface changes are listed in the AntS3 README, the most important one being you can see and modify the API allow settings to make it secure.
Since you have an S3+ make sure you check what your settings are in the Advanced Tab before you update and set/save them again after the update.
However it's easy to see what settings my version is running since I also display them at the bottom of the Miner Status web page