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Title: One worker on multiple computer advantages and disadvantages? Post by: robelneo on April 19, 2014, 11:41:55 PM Hi my friend had a chain of computer cafes and he is cpu mining on the background
he'd like to ask .. What are the advantages and disadvantages of having one worker on multiple computers.. does it has any? Title: Re: One worker on multiple computer advantages and disadvantages? Post by: ryancpwalsh on April 20, 2014, 12:43:10 AM One worker means you can have one config across all machines - if you have a working config and machines are identical - you can literally copy your startup command to every machine you want to run from and go.
Disadvantages - if you're mining with a pool that provides you stats per worker - you won't be able to tell which of your machines is performing well, not so well etc. - as all of your stats will be reported as one worker vs. using multiple. Title: Re: One worker on multiple computer advantages and disadvantages? Post by: Equate on April 20, 2014, 01:41:27 PM using multiple workers , pool allots worker difficulty as per your hash rate and you have less number of stales.
Title: Re: One worker on multiple computer advantages and disadvantages? Post by: robelneo on April 20, 2014, 10:12:23 PM One worker means you can have one config across all machines - if you have a working config and machines are identical - you can literally copy your startup command to every machine you want to run from and go. make sense but seeing his stats ,it's not really desirable as each machines only shows 2 to 10 khs rate and all the machines average are only 5khs ...but since he's got 30 machines on one of his cafe and 50 more from his other branch he will still run in profit but don't want the idea of getting his graphic cards to mine ..Disadvantages - if you're mining with a pool that provides you stats per worker - you won't be able to tell which of your machines is performing well, not so well etc. - as all of your stats will be reported as one worker vs. using multiple. |