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Title: Should I reboot my Antminer S1's regularly, like once a week Post by: hheellll on May 10, 2014, 06:20:23 PM I have a small bitcoin mining farm with twelve Antminer S1's.
I want to set it up in an exemplary manner as far as management of this farm is concerned. I do it for selfish reasons, so as to make the maximum amount of money and to make it easy to manage them. Th that end, for instance, I already monitor them to make sure that I know when some of them are down. It already helped me when a cheap power strip tripped its breaker, I knew about it in an hour. For my other (non-antminer) Linux servers, like algebra.com webservers and others, I reboot them on a regular basis, once a week. This seems to be the best strategy and it makes lock-ups extremely rare. I am wondering if I should, perhaps, reboot antminer S1's on schedule also, such as once per week. Do antminers lock up due to software reasons, in your experience? thanks Title: Re: Should I reboot my Antminer S1's regularly, like once a week Post by: Airwhale on May 10, 2014, 06:24:01 PM I leave my Ants on for several weeks at a time and I don't notice any difference from when they first go on.
The exception, from what I have seen, is if I do a bad job managing heat and the chips get too hot. If heat is a concern for you, you might want to reboot every 24-48 hours. Title: Re: Should I reboot my Antminer S1's regularly, like once a week Post by: Xian01 on May 10, 2014, 06:24:27 PM No. No reason to reboot them at all.
Title: Re: Should I reboot my Antminer S1's regularly, like once a week Post by: philipma1957 on May 10, 2014, 08:08:43 PM use mDudes program it monitors them and if you get x's it auto boots.
his thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=596178.0 note: x's are reason to boot. as they cost hashpower http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1600x1200q90/835/jtkd.png Title: Re: Should I reboot my Antminer S1's regularly, like once a week Post by: xjack on May 10, 2014, 09:32:58 PM My ant never stops - don't poke the bear.
DO install the kano's firmware, it brought my system load down from 1.9-2.2 down to 1.2-1.3. Title: Re: Should I reboot my Antminer S1's regularly, like once a week Post by: dulac97 on May 10, 2014, 09:43:00 PM My ant never stops - don't poke the bear. DO install the kano's firmware, it brought my system load down from 1.9-2.2 down to 1.2-1.3. Can you link to where to get kano's antminer firmware and the concept of system load? Thanks! Title: Re: Should I reboot my Antminer S1's regularly, like once a week Post by: xjack on May 10, 2014, 09:51:39 PM My ant never stops - don't poke the bear. DO install the kano's firmware, it brought my system load down from 1.9-2.2 down to 1.2-1.3. Can you link to where to get kano's antminer firmware and the concept of system load? Thanks! https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer-binaries/tree/master/AntS1 http://blog.scoutapp.com/articles/2009/07/31/understanding-load-averages Title: Re: Should I reboot my Antminer S1's regularly, like once a week Post by: dulac97 on May 10, 2014, 09:56:40 PM Thanks so much!
Title: Re: Should I reboot my Antminer S1's regularly, like once a week Post by: BTCLotto on May 10, 2014, 09:58:36 PM Most electronics will last longer if left on. It reduces the amount of heat cycles thus lowering the stress created from that.
Title: Re: Should I reboot my Antminer S1's regularly, like once a week Post by: CoinToTheMax on May 11, 2014, 04:33:22 AM It is better to let them running without restart, as mentioned above, they will last longer if just leaved in constant working load.
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