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Title: Auto Switch pools if one is down. Is it possible? Post by: Fuzzy on June 11, 2011, 09:53:14 AM I read somewhere that there is a GPU miner that can switch from one pool to another if it detects that one is down or unresponsive. Can anyone point me to a tutorial on how to set this up?
Title: Re: Auto Switch pools if one is down. Is it possible? Post by: Lightspeed on June 11, 2011, 10:05:48 AM yes i believe the one I was using last night by SomeoneWeird has this feature
Title: Re: Auto Switch pools if one is down. Is it possible? Post by: MaGNeT on June 11, 2011, 10:35:22 AM You can run 2 instances of a miner (like Phoenix) on 1 card.
The first instance is setup to one pool, the other to another pool. Mhash/s will be split 50/50 and if one pool fails, the other instance will go 100%. Title: Re: Auto Switch pools if one is down. Is it possible? Post by: Cdecker on June 12, 2011, 07:28:40 AM Or you can use the flexible mining proxy (http://forum.bitcoin.org/?topic=5506) to configure more than one pool and it will switch for you. Compatible with most miners :D
Title: Re: Auto Switch pools if one is down. Is it possible? Post by: MaGNeT on June 12, 2011, 07:31:19 AM Or you can use the flexible mining proxy (http://forum.bitcoin.org/?topic=5506) to configure more than one pool and it will switch for you. Compatible with most miners :D But what happens if the proxy is down? Title: Re: Auto Switch pools if one is down. Is it possible? Post by: supa on June 12, 2011, 07:31:59 AM Oh, cute proxy... I thought about using PHP but went with C++ instead. And C++ let's me do more evil(tm) with less effort. Title: Re: Auto Switch pools if one is down. Is it possible? Post by: Cdecker on June 12, 2011, 07:32:51 AM Or you can use the flexible mining proxy (http://forum.bitcoin.org/?topic=5506) to configure more than one pool and it will switch for you. Compatible with most miners :D But what happens if the proxy is down? Title: Re: Auto Switch pools if one is down. Is it possible? Post by: MaGNeT on June 12, 2011, 07:33:49 AM Or you can use the flexible mining proxy (http://forum.bitcoin.org/?topic=5506) to configure more than one pool and it will switch for you. Compatible with most miners :D But what happens if the proxy is down? Ah, ok. Good point :) Title: Re: Auto Switch pools if one is down. Is it possible? Post by: snoopytime on June 12, 2011, 07:35:47 AM [/quote] You host it yourself, if it goes down you're in trouble anyway :D [/quote] = ROFL Title: Re: Auto Switch pools if one is down. Is it possible? Post by: jgarzik on June 12, 2011, 07:42:29 AM This problem has already been solved. See this thread (http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10762.0) and https://github.com/kylegibson/poclbm Title: Re: Auto Switch pools if one is down. Is it possible? Post by: SomeoneWeird on June 12, 2011, 09:30:36 AM I read somewhere that there is a GPU miner that can switch from one pool to another if it detects that one is down or unresponsive. Can anyone point me to a tutorial on how to set this up? Quote from: LightSpeed yes i believe the one I was using last night by SomeoneWeird has this feature Yeah, BitMiner has fallback support. Title: Re: Auto Switch pools if one is down. Is it possible? Post by: Rodyland on June 12, 2011, 12:03:41 PM Or you can just set up your backup pool as another miner that runs at a lower priority than your primary (the OpenCL miner in guiminer has a -f option that allows you to set a priority, 30 is the default, bigger number is lower priority). If/when the primary miner/pool goes down, the secondary miner/pool steps up because the GPU is underutilised.
I use it to switch between btcguild as my primary and slush as my backup and it works just fine. |