Looking back in my long rambling answer I noticed I never answered the direct question "where did the other shares go".
They were discarded BEFORE working. cgminer records that as DW
They were discarded BEFORE working. cgminer records that as DW
I figured that much, but thanks for the long answer
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I find the most useful metric is U (Utility. How many ACCEPTED shares per minute do I generate). A high U(tility) means high revenue. U is subject to variance so I really only look at it after cgminer has been running for 4 hours+.
With my 3x5970 rigs I try to maintain ~30 shares/min. Man I thought this one was going to be short ... failed again.
With my 3x5970 rigs I try to maintain ~30 shares/min. Man I thought this one was going to be short ... failed again.
You're such a fountain of wisdom! That was the one question lingering in my mind, what that "u" meant exactly. Intuition told me it was a good proxy for performance.
BTW, 30 shares per minute, so 5 per gpu ? Seems lowish to me. Have you underclocked and undervolted those 5970s? Thing is, Im getting exactly 5 share per minute per core on average with my considerably cheaper (*) GPU cores (and not even seriously overclocked due to linux limitations).
(*) okay, they would have been cheaper if I wasnt so anal about keeping temps low. If I factor in the cost of that spitfire and the other coolers, its not that cheap anymore, but the ease of mind that 46C peak temperature on the 5870 @ 900 MHz gives me is priceless
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