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How efficient is cgminer on an S3 or S5 at splitting its time among two pools? When you choose "balanced" or "load balanced", do you leave " a little on the table"? I would like to point half my miner to this solo pool and half to kano pool. If the machines do not operate optimally under these conditions, I may reconsider. Will this lead to more unaccepted/stale shares?
No idea why you think cgminer would lose anything extra in this configuration (no idea about other miners)
It doesn't lose shares/work ... or anything extra from using multiple pools.
Though I do mean cgminer, not the hacked versions of cgminer produced by others, that I can not vouch for at all since they seem to often do stupid things in their versions.
Okay, to put it another way.... does the over head of managing two pools (or three) erode the efficiency of the limited processing power of the on-board cpu enough to make it less efficient than it otherwise would only communicating with one pool?
Don't get me wrong... I like your answer! It makes a hobbyist like me able to multi-plex my pool allegiance without getting penalized!
I get that you say the answer is 'no', but I question the computing power of the little onboard ARM cpu. It can walk and chew gum....
It's fine. It takes virtually no more cpu power to speak to 2 pools concurrently.
hmm some reason when i do it on my s3 i get a TON of rejects on pool 2 and 3.
its like its taking the work of pool 1, submitting it to 2 and 3 and they reject it.
ill turn it on for a few and show a screenshot.
edit here is screen shot..
if you notice pool 2 is not accepting almost half the work. every time i refresh the page i get about 30 more rejects
this is antpool normally i get about 1 or 2 rejects a day..
if i leave it run for awhile. eventually pool 3 will start doing the same thing. i am using the cgminer from nicehash.