Seems dev is active, this is always a good sign, thank you for posting the list. Question: tomorrow on the 19th N factor will change, do I need to change only the timestart setting to something else?or i will need to change everything also, TC, Intensity, and so on?
I love how scrypt jane performs, really this are my results after a little over 24h of mining:
-7950 and 270s cards combined: 7950 ->3.1mh , 270->1.7mh
-rig is way cooler, 7950s are around 60 degrees and 270s are around 55 degrees , with fanspeeds of around 20%
-power consumption is 30% less overall, which is crazy!I have a watt meter on the wall and it gets me around 300w less compared to scrypt, combine this with the lower temps and fanspeeds = win
Did somebody else managed to get more hash out of 7950 or 270s? For me it seems that 1.7mh from a R9 270 seems lower than it should be, I have tried all kinds of different settings, the best result i am getting with Intensity 20, TC:16382 , even if i overclock engine and memclock to 1100 and 1500mem it doesn`t give me more than 5% boost in hash
3.1 mh at NF = 5 is fine for 7950. 270 also fine.
The starttime will never change. That is the time when the start of the coin was set up in the sources, you can't change that. You pass that command line value to the mining software so your miner will know precisely when to use the next N-factor. The N-factor change is hard-coded in the sources depending on the start time. Automatically your mining software will change it to the right one so you will not get the message "Share above target".
If you know what is the actual N-factor and don't need to pass --starttime command line argument, just put the nfmin at 5 and nfmax at 5 and the mining software will always mine at n-factor of 5. But careful when the change will come as you will not mine anymore blocks and you need to change manually to 6.
As a rule of thumb, whenever you start mining, the higher the N-factor, the higher the --lookup-gap you need to start with. Usually as of now it is 1 or 2. After that you increase your --thread-concurrency until the miner will show some error. You can use hwinfo software to see when the videocard dedicated memory will start moving to dynamic memory and you know when to stop increasing TC also by being guided by that. After this you start increasing the -R (raw intensity) in worksize increments. If your -w (worksize) is set up at 128 then you set up your -R to 1024, or 1152 .. any multiple of 128. Some cards like R9 they will allow you to set up the raw intensity in increments of 8 only. Sometime you will know when -R is too high as the mining speed will drop down considerably, by 75 % or something similar.
It is true, scrypt-jane mining is saving you a lot of electricity and there is not much stress on your videocards. I have had many videocards that broke.
This is why the dev thought of scrypt-jane for this coin, to make it easier for the mining hardware and your power bill.