Quote from: HumbleMiner on January 29, 2014, 08:49:01 PM

Quote from: Doublehamm on January 29, 2014, 08:24:31 PM

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!

Use middlecoin.com:3333 as a failover.

"pools" : [
{
"url" : "stratum+tcp://useast.middlecoin.com:3333",
"user" : "xxx",
"pass" : "xxx"
},
{
"url" : "stratum+tcp://middlecoin.com:3333",
"user" : "xxx",
"pass" : "xxx"
}
]
.....
"failover-only" : true,
.....

If your cgminer completely freezes and is unable to fail over I would suggest looking into CGWatcher (if you are on Windows). I had it installed and set it up to restart cgminer after 30 minutes of no submitted shares.

Good luck.

Thank you for the response! Is that what I type into my bat file? I guess I just have not seen commands like that when looking into setting up my bat file. In that case would it be wise to add a 3rd server there like west? Thanks again for your help - eventually will have quite a few rigs running with a friend and want to make sure they will require as little maintenance as possible to save labor time.