I've searched for an answer to this, but I haven't found it...
I'm running a P2Pool node. I realize I can set difficulty using address+XXXX where XXXX is a user specified difficulty.
Is there any reason other than seeing a 'smooth' graph to set difficulty any lower than the share difficulty? My Pseudoshares at difficulty 128 or whatever really mean nothing other than it updates the graphs showing my miner is doing work.
If I were to set the pseudoshare difficulty to the share difficulty [currently 873000], is there any downside? I'd save in some bandwidth, seems like it would save all the trouble of sending shares in when they don't really mean anything. I'd edit the code so as share difficulty fluctuates the difficulty for pseudoshares would fluctuate as well sent to my miners...Is this a crazy thing to do?
Thanks,
Zach
If you don't mind losing the stats, you can certainly set it that high. There are no other downsides. Are your miners on a separate network from the p2pool node? I don't see why you'd need to save bandwidth if they were on the same network.