Quote from: glon on December 13, 2013, 09:42:57 AM

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Quote from: trogdorjw73 on December 13, 2013, 09:02:28 AM

I heard about this recently and decided to give it a try. The profitability charts looked really nice, for example. Anyway, here's my 24-hour review of Hash Cows vs. Litecoin. I'm going to keep it going for another day, but so far things aren't looking all that good compared to other mining options.

"every time they switch coins, my miners all seem to swap over to my secondary pool for several minutes"

did you use cgminer <= 3.5.0?
if not, you should redo your tests.

Why is that?

because >3.5.0 has a delay of 5 minutes when a pools fails, thus you loose a lot of mining on hashcows, due to coin switches.
earlier versions have a much shorter delay, so are more suited to multicoin pool mining.

Ah ok. Two questions though:

1) Is there maybe a config switch in >3.5.0 to manually set a shorter delay? If yes, would 1 minute be a safe number to set this to?

2) Are you not sacrificing some other possible benefits when not using the latest GPU-scrypt cgminer (3.7.2)?

Thanks!

Anything over 3.3.1 and cgminer starts to get worse for scrypt. You'll get the best hash rate and least amount of disconnection time from it.