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Topic: Mining on two pools as a load balancer (Read 1644 times)

sr. member
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yung lean
June 10, 2011, 05:47:28 PM
#5
Running two miners on one GPU works for me as long as I split the hashrate 50-50. If I give one miner the -f60 tag so that the majority of the hash rate goes to one pool my gpu usage drops to 90% and I lose about 10% total hash rate. Any ideas? I would like one primary pool and one backup rather then two pools always with 50%
hero member
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Bite me
June 08, 2011, 08:07:36 AM
#4
guiminer seems to work ok on 2 or more pools
hero member
Activity: 797
Merit: 1017
June 08, 2011, 08:06:59 AM
#3
Just tried on Diablo miner, and it's a big no no, GPU usage drops from 98% to about 80%-90%, and hashing drops even lower.
hero member
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Merit: 500
June 08, 2011, 08:04:28 AM
#2
I am running 2 miners on one card pointed to eu and us eligius servers, but only phoenix or phatk miners can split gpu power 50:50
newbie
Activity: 7
Merit: 0
June 08, 2011, 06:38:31 AM
#1
Hello everyone,

as the us server of eligius is currently down, I was thinking about what the best way is to implement a load balancer.

I thought the easiest way would be to start 2 mining tools on 2 different pools. The hashrate per miner would then equally distributed on two pools, but as one pool goes offline, the hashrate on the other pool would then go to 100%.

Is there anything wrong with that approach. Are there any other advantages of multiple mining (I currently only have one gpu) or am I missing something and that is actually a really bad idea?
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