I imagine smolen is probably snickering at us all right now
Smolen is pulling his hair being out of all recent events on altcrypto world
A question about smelter, then, specifically worksize. When I am pool mining with scrypt, I notice that when I raise my worksize the pool server notes a higher share rate even though my hashrate is less than if I lower my worksize. Is the same true with solo mining for QRK or SRC with smelter? I notice a hashrate drop of 40% when I increase my WS from 128 -> 256, but will this translate to a 40% drop in block discovery rate or does the worksize compensate for that?
The best indicator is reported hashrate, adjust your settings for the best hashrate, there is no "compensation" or any other accounting tricks. Quark kernel uses too much registers, so increasing worksize lead to so-called "register spill" and GPU power is wasted on useless memory <-> register file transfers.
The ability to specify which gpu to mine would be great..I use my 5870 for normal activities and my second card for mining.
Already in my TODO list
Help needed. On the latest verison I see that -I is set to 200 is this a typeo or actualy ment to be 200
Meant to be 200. The intensity scaling for Smelter has a bigger range than cgminer or guiminer.
Intensity value is time for a single clEnqueueNDRangeKernel call in milliseconds. 200 ms is a good value for dedicated mining PC, but you'd lower it to gain better desktop interactivity.
Any idea how to use a pool?
Currently Smelter is for solo mining only, don't expect pool server soon
Downloaded the latest version of smelter, edited the sm file, and get "couldn't connect to server"
Try adding "--debug" option, may be there will be a hint in log messages. Error diagnostics in Smelter is rudimentary, I know