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Board Mining software (miners)
Re: CGMINER GPU FPGA overclock monitor fanspeed RPC linux/windows/osx/mip/r-pi 2.7.0
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-ck
on 19/08/2012, 15:21:05 UTC
I must be misunderstanding something, or perhaps the default is different and I don't know it? But when I'm solo mining, tons of shares are going to other pools. But it doesn't happen when I'm not solo.. is there some kind of flag I need to use? It's acting like --balance when it's not enabled, only when I'm solo mining though. I would take from this that --balance is the new default, but it's not like it does that if I simply change to work for a pool instead of going solo.

I am so confused, haha. Huh
It's not the default, it's just that a local bitcoind is actually really quite slow compared to a pool. You probably want to enable --failover-only to cope.

I just tried enabling solo mining on my machine and initially it leaked some shares to the backup pools and then again when there was a new block, but then it settles down and mines solo till the next block and repeats the cycle.

This seems like normal behavior to me.  This machine uses two GPU's at about 510Mhs.
Sam
Very much depends on local hardware capabilities and network conditions it seems. Clearly in farfie's case it's just barely keeping up and cgminer is detecting it. Note that farfie's actual WU is the same mining in failover-only, so it's actually enough to keep the singles busy, but cgminer notes the buffer dropping very low often and ends up sending it elsewhere... either that or farfie has a different mode set up and doesn't know it (like in a configuration file that cgminer is loading without him knowing).