I've been running two tests for a week each, on nanopool.
First with Bminer and then with DSTM, and a few hours ago I switched to excavator 1.4.4a, and I'll run that till next Sunday to compare.
I completely ignored miner/pool stats for Sols, and instead focused on Shares and Payments as reported by nanopool.
Since they are paying me for my shares, I have to accept that their numbers are what matters.
Now, I only have a single Asus 1070, not OC'd nor undervolted or any of that fancy stuff, and it's in a regular gaming rig. Now, I didn't (rarely do) play any games during this period, and my box is on and mines 24/7, no matter what I do. It's an i7-6700K, 32 GB RAM, with SSDs. Now, I said no gaming, but I use it every day for a couple of hours, surfing and what-not, including watching movies with Kodi, streaming 720p/1080p content from NAS over local Gbit network. My external network is 1000/100 Mbit and rock solid.
Neither of the miners have caused any troubles for my machine, and I've only noticed that DSTM needed to restart itself a bunch of times during the week. If I remember correctly, Bminer ran without any problems. I rarely restart my computer, but it happens. Same with the miners. If they were ever closed, it was only for a few minutes during the entire week.
My conclusion?
Well, darn near identical results, with a slight edge for DSTM.
Initially, I ran Bminer with devfee and the later days with the -nofee option. I never noticed any difference in Sols, and don't know if it ever affected shares/payments.
Stats in a shared Google Sheets here .
Next week, I'll add numbers for excavtor.
I'd like to see those stats for excavator, keep up the good work. Its well built, im pretty sure reporting is accurate and overall speeds should be pretty good.