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Re: [ANN] profit switching auto-exchanging pool - middlecoin.com
by
Doublehamm
on 29/01/2014, 20:24:31 UTC
Question - I have had 4 different computers connected to this pool for a couple weeks now.  The first week-week and a half there were not issues whatsoever.  100% connection, everything running fine.
The past few days have been a different story.  Multiple times a day now one of the computers (completely random on which one will do it when) cgminer gives me one of 2 errors:

either "Stratum connection to pool 0 interrupted"  or "Pool 0 stratum+tcp://useast.middlecoin.com:333 not responding!"

Then the last line says

"Waiting for work to be available from pools"

After that it just hangs and does not do anything.  A few times it took me a few hours to find out it was not running, one time it froze right after I headed to bed so it was down all night.   Typically my other computers chug along just fine to the exact same server without issue, or at least hang at a different period of time.

I know when I used cudaminer for my old nvidia cards before my 280x cards showed up, if it was disconnected from a server it would reconnect again after 15 seconds, or at least try and keep trying after 15 seconds.  .  I am not sure what is going on here in cgminer, and if it has a similar auto restart feature that would allow it to reconnect again after losing connection.  Maybe it does and it is not working?  Anyhow I seem to have a LOT of down time the past few days.  If I notice it and then I close it down and restart to the same server, it seems to start right up again no problem. 

I have tried useast and uswest as different bat files.

Also, is there a way to add multiple servers in the bat file to have it switch to another server in a case such as this?  I am just trying to figure out what I need to do to get my best uptime.

Thanks in advance!