Quote from: patrike on February 28, 2019, 04:41:52 PM

Quote from: trucobit on February 28, 2019, 10:54:43 AM

Hello Patrike, I usually suggest new features, today I have a complaint.

The benchmark section has been losing its functions over the months. There are very few Al-Gos that I can benchmark directly. This forces me to create a test pool and select the auto-exchanges and do the manual miner mining test.

Suggestion. If I have all the Autoexchanges activated, but I have them as they do not automatically enter autoprofit unless I choose it. Because the benchmark is not able to use those algos from the auto exchanges? I mean nicehash, zpool, ahaspool, etc ... On Saturday I teach a 3 day course of Awesome miner and it will be tedious to explain to people that the benchmark system is almost useless and that they have to create a pool of test, activate the Auto exchanges and select only one Al-GO and try different miners.

I think the benchmark if it detects that I have activated the auto exchanges, should use those algos. I'm not going to lose money, but I think it would be the logical thing to do, because now the benchmark is almost completely useless, and it's giving me a lot of work to measure the new AL-GOS and find the best miner by hand. This needs to be improved soon, it's my personal opinion.

Thanks in advance.

I agree that that usability for the benchmark can be improved and I know other users had similar suggestion in the past.

What I've been planning for is to make it possible to select any pool from a list to be used for the benchmark. At least you would't have to go in and add it to the profit switcher all the time.

However, you still need a pool to do the benchmark for most mining software - it's only a few of them that supports offline benchmark without a pool.

I'm thinking of two or three selections that could be used to improve the benchmark dialog
1) Benchmark using pools available to the profit switcher (this is the only way you can benchmark today)
2) Benchmark using a specific pool (the user select a pool from a list, it doesn't need to be part of the profit switcher)
3) Maybe also: Benchmark by manually entering pool detils (the user need to enter pool URL, worker name, wallet and so on)

Can you please give your view on how you want to tell the benchmark dialog which pool to use? Would #2 above solve most of your scenarios?dialog?

Edit: The new version 6.2.3 allows you to select a specific pool to be used for benchmark

the solution for the banchmark seems very logical, I have to try it, but it is a good idea to choose a pool that we already have to be able to test that currency at the same time in different miners. Now it will be less tedious to make the measurements. Thanks Patrike