Topic: What is VarDiff? (Read 5270 times)
You are right, all eclipse servers (us1/us2/us3/diff10 on 8337 and us3:8437) use vardiff.
I switched to the VarDiff server when was first introduced as beta and did not used the "normal" ones (us1/us2/us3) but I'll start checking all of them right now and get back to you soon with my results.
I was under the impression that all of the eclipse servers were now VarDiff?
You should start seeing some differences even around ~800Mhash.
The idea is to lower the server and network load for high hashing power clients. This is achieved by using an increased difficulty work so client(miner) solve a predefined number of hashes per second.
For my case I notice that on VarDiff server I solve only 8 or 9 hashes per minute with any of my miners between 800Mhases (use ~1.35 Diff) and 4Ghases (use ~7.26 Diff).
The idea is to lower the server and network load for high hashing power clients. This is achieved by using an increased difficulty work so client(miner) solve a predefined number of hashes per second.
For my case I notice that on VarDiff server I solve only 8 or 9 hashes per minute with any of my miners between 800Mhases (use ~1.35 Diff) and 4Ghases (use ~7.26 Diff).
Good plan
I think > 1Ghash and you'd see the difference
Thankyou. I'm currently at ~300 Mhash/s, so I guess I'll just stick with the normal server.
The vardiff server dynamically adjusts the difficulty of the blocks you're sent based on your hashing power (as measured over a period of time).
If you have significant processing power then you can reduce load and increase your efficiency a bit using the vardiff server - you'll get >diff 1 blocks.
So my question pertains to EclipseMC. I've noticed on their website that they have a server called "VarDiff". I was wonder what the difference was between this one and say "us1". Also, how I would connect to that one?
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