Quote from: bcpokey on June 10, 2011, 07:42:34 PM

Quote from: zale on June 10, 2011, 07:27:43 PM

I get a lot of idle messages, but my GPUs keep running at 99% and the Hashrate doesnt go down at all. Does it mean I can just ignore the warnings?

Pretty much yes.

If your hashrate is unaffected its unlikely that your rig is being affected by tiny amounts of idles. Ignore the "fatigue" guy, sounds like he has some weird problem with his individual setup.

The only problem I'm having with BTCGuild is a slightly overhigh stale share rate. Still floating around 2%, whereas before I used to be at 1/2%. Perhaps its just an inevitable effect of higher difficulty I dunno.

Yes, as long as the temperature doesn't vary by more than a few degrees, it isn't a risk, but if it varies by 10 or more degrees C, then it will start causing physical expansion or contraction [the latter in the case of idle and temperature drops]. I use MSI Afterburner, so if there is a big spike in GPU utilization [note that the sample period affects the graph, so what may have been a 0.2s gap, may show as a 1s gap on the graph], I just look up at the temperature line and see if it moved more than a "blip" meaning a couple of degrees. If I see this happen often, and especially in relatively close succession, I stop the miner and either wait it out, or mine a different pool for a bit [sometimes, conditions are such that nearly every significant pool was having similar issues]. I have not had to leave my miners down for long before I found a place to land

I give it a day or so and then test the waters. I watch my stales carefully, compare to the fee/donation that I am paying and the variability of the pool to determine my threshold of what is acceptable. No mathematical analysis, but I do make educated conclusions about whether I think it is a good idea to leave my miners connected to a given pool when unattended [i.e. when I am sleeping, or in the office away from my mining computers].

That's why I call it babysitting when all hell breaks loose among multiple pools