I have tried reducing intensity but that didn't seem to change much except the hash rate. But I haven't tried yet to tweak any of the other settings. The settings I am using are from another guy that is also running 7950s on scrypt to mine LTC. I could post all the setting here if it would help.
First of all, should I be worried? I don't know enough about GPU mining in general, and stratum in particular, to know if what I am getting is normal.
Second, if it is not normal, can anyone tell me what I need to do to fix it?
Thanks in advance for any help you can give.
BTW, I did try to search this thread for that "requested work restart" phrase, but didn't find much that was illuminating.
I thought I would post an update on this, in case anyone else has the same issue.
I made two change, one of which, or the combination of both, solved the problem. The instructions I was using said to set "failover-only" to true. I changed this to "load-balance" : true. At the same time, I added two alternative/backup pools at WeMineLTC.com. When I restarted CGMiner, the "requested work restarts and rejects dropped almost to zero. My rate of accepted shares nearly tripled. It is interesting to note that CGMiner's load-balancing function is now almost completely ignoring P2Pool in the "rotation" of pools. I am now at ~600kH/s per GPU with single digit rejects.
If anyone else has a similar problem, those are two things to try.