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Re: [ANN] profit switching auto-exchanging pool - middlecoin.com
by
Wipeout2097
on 25/01/2014, 19:58:07 UTC
Quick question...

I'm in Portugal. Ping to eu.middlecoin.com is 50 ms, while it is ~120 to useast.middlecoin.com

Which quotas on load-balance should I have? Currently, it's 50% to each pool. Should I give ~90% to eu. or leave as it is?

why do you load balance at all ?
3 reasons:
1) latency to eu and useast changes a bit around the clock. I've already had lower latency to useast than to eu.
2) the miner sometimes idles if a pool dies, if it's in failover. I never had a problem with giving a minimal quota to the 2nd pool
3) if one pool malfunctions or there's variance in profit between pools, load-balance smooths it

So, which quota should I have?