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Re: [POOL] YAAMP.COM multipool multialgo profit switch with exchange
by
joblo
on 05/07/2015, 15:34:05 UTC

i mean yaamp's code, not site, just try and see for yourself,
multialgo switching makes huge difference

i see what you mean ...

on this fact alone - it does seem that way ...

multialgo switching has abrupt changes to contend with and so suffer share rejects everytime the switch happens ...

this is a loss of shares and productivity - even though they are small between switches ... we have seen this happen with our own miners / farm ...

but that is with ANY multialgo multipool - not just yaamp.com ...

look at epsylon3 .. he is one hell of a developer - and now running his own yaamp-coded pool with more algos added ...

it sort of goes to show that if even a seasoned developer like him is willing to look at - setup - and improve the code - then the pool code is still on a reasonably good level ...

nicehash has the same sort of issues ( though they dont mine coins - just divert hashrate ) with multialgo switching ...

so much so - that they devote an entire section on the website to it ...

single algo / single coin pools may be more 'efficient' ( for lack of a better word ) at mining - but we believe that the losses are so minimal thats its close to negligible ...

#crysx

I don't have a problem with rejects upon switching algos on any multipool. I don't use
the pools' multialgo features,  but I also incur the overhead of killing and restarting ccminer.

I don't think there is a truly elegant way to switch algos. The pool signals by disconnecting
so any unsubmitted shares are lost. Whether the miner reports that as a reject is irrelevant,
it's lost work.

To have a seamless algo switch requires a cooperative disconnect where the miner is allowed
to complete the work in progress.