Splitsniff and Sniffdog are powershell scrypts developed by Fromage/Nemo/Aaronsace that automatically determines what coin/algo is most profitable. There's a master window that automatically starts & stops the ccminer files.
Splitsniff allows you to specify the GPUs you want to use (just like the -d function). I was under the impression it could be used to run two instances of Sniffdog. Unfortunately, if I create two bat files, it runs two master windows that end up screwing with eachother.
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Topic: Sniffdog/Splitsniff: Can two instances be run on one rig? (Read 331 times)
I am not entirely sure if I understood your question correctly, but here it goes:
I thought it is possible to run multiple miner instances for multiple algos on a specific subset of cards just by using the right commands without sniffing software. In ccminer you do it with -d DEVICEID, where DEVICEID is the number of your CUDA devices you want to actively run. Did you try that? Or is that already causing the problems? I would not use that split software if you don't have to.
I also suggest (depending on the algos you want to use) to try just the pure EWBF's miner and Palgin's ccminer mod (not the alexis mod). They are both more optimized for CUDA cards, especially 1080's. The newest release was just recently upgraded to CUDA 8 which should give you a slight performance increase.
Always switching around in the pools is not something I favor. I rather mine a coin for a week and switch afterwards. At least with the pure split command you could mine 2 coins simultaneously with 1 rig, which is already sweet.
Hope that helps
I thought it is possible to run multiple miner instances for multiple algos on a specific subset of cards just by using the right commands without sniffing software. In ccminer you do it with -d DEVICEID, where DEVICEID is the number of your CUDA devices you want to actively run. Did you try that? Or is that already causing the problems? I would not use that split software if you don't have to.
I also suggest (depending on the algos you want to use) to try just the pure EWBF's miner and Palgin's ccminer mod (not the alexis mod). They are both more optimized for CUDA cards, especially 1080's. The newest release was just recently upgraded to CUDA 8 which should give you a slight performance increase.
Always switching around in the pools is not something I favor. I rather mine a coin for a week and switch afterwards. At least with the pure split command you could mine 2 coins simultaneously with 1 rig, which is already sweet.
Hope that helps
Anyone?
One of my rigs is sporting 5x GTX1080's.
I've always had problems with algo-switching softwares. They tend to crash, hang, and generally not behave they were designed to.
Some miners *cough*Alexis*cough* also take a loooong time to start all GPUs and are unstable when you throw more than 3 GPUs at them.
I'm not giving up just yet, though.
Splitsniff is supposed to allow you to split your rig's GPUs... which is good in theory. But I wonder how I could run two instances on the same rig, i.e. one with 3 GPUs (0,1,2) and one with the remaining two (3,4). Unfortunately this doesn't seem to work as the Sniffdog instances will clash with eachother.
Was wondering if anybody's figured it out.
I've always had problems with algo-switching softwares. They tend to crash, hang, and generally not behave they were designed to.
Some miners *cough*Alexis*cough* also take a loooong time to start all GPUs and are unstable when you throw more than 3 GPUs at them.
I'm not giving up just yet, though.
Splitsniff is supposed to allow you to split your rig's GPUs... which is good in theory. But I wonder how I could run two instances on the same rig, i.e. one with 3 GPUs (0,1,2) and one with the remaining two (3,4). Unfortunately this doesn't seem to work as the Sniffdog instances will clash with eachother.
Was wondering if anybody's figured it out.
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