So is there any reason why I would not want to run a separate instance of Claymore for each GPU? I'm using the "-di " switch to only select one card per instance.
I'm finding this much better when it comes to tuning a setup since one card crashing doesn't cause all cards to reload and waste precious mining time.
The only downside I'm seeing is reported hashrate on the pool is wrong since all instances have the same miner name but the calculated average looks spot on. Of course it might use a bit more memory and CPU but I don't think it's anything significantly important.
" since all instances have the same miner name" - To get individual names use /Miner01 /Miner02 etc where you have the miner name in each bat file.
Ya, I know it's just not worth the work to get the correct hashrate to be reported.
I simply did something like this in my start.bat:
start "0" EthDcrMiner64.exe -mode 1 -ftime 10 -ethi 16 -altnum 3 -platform 2 -mport 3330 -mpsw pass -di 0
start "1" EthDcrMiner64.exe -mode 1 -ftime 10 -ethi 16 -altnum 3 -platform 2 -mport 3331 -mpsw pass -di 1
start "2" EthDcrMiner64.exe -mode 1 -ftime 10 -ethi 16 -altnum 3 -platform 2 -mport 3332 -mpsw pass -di 2
...and so on.
All my pool config is in epool.txt and this method does not need copies of the miner folder, so all instances are running from the one folder and exe.
Just wondering if there are any technical benefits of having all cards run under one instance like more efficiency etc...