I'm using CGWatcher 1.1.2 with cgminer 2.11.4 and I noticed that alot of my work is being thrown away. I have about 2x as many "Discarded" as "Accepted". I assume the discards are caused by the GPU not getting the work done fast enough before the server moves to the next block.

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I've tried a couple different pools, but still high discards.

Is this normal? Is there any way to minimize the number of discards? Would worksize make a difference? Is it a network latency issue? Anything suggestions for what I can tweak to improve this would be appreciated.

Edit Update: I switched to another pool and discard rate has dropped from 200% down to 60%, so I think a large part of the problem was the pool.

Edit Update 2: Saw over in the cgminer thread that discards are "meaningless" which is why it was removed from the cgminer screen. So I guess there isn't anything that can be done about it. I think its related to hash rate - seems the lower the hash the more discards. This would make sense because the miner can't keep up with the pool. The pool moves on to a new block while the miner is still working on the old one, so the work gets tossed, if I understand things correctly.