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I noticed my avalon has the option to mine with multiple pools. Is that mining with multiple pools at once or just switching to another pool when your main pool is down?
Your Avalon is using CGMiner. The CGMiner thread top post and the readme explain the mining strategies.
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MULTIPOOL
FAILOVER STRATEGIES WITH MULTIPOOL:
A number of different strategies for dealing with multipool setups are
available. Each has their advantages and disadvantages so multiple strategies
are available by user choice, as per the following list:
FAILOVER:
The default strategy is failover. This means that if you input a number of
pools, it will try to use them as a priority list, moving away from the 1st
to the 2nd, 2nd to 3rd and so on. If any of the earlier pools recover, it will
move back to the higher priority ones.
ROUND ROBIN:
This strategy only moves from one pool to the next when the current one falls
idle and makes no attempt to move otherwise.
ROTATE:
This strategy moves at user-defined intervals from one active pool to the next,
skipping pools that are idle.
LOAD BALANCE:
This strategy sends work to all the pools to maintain optimum load. The most
efficient pools will tend to get a lot more shares. If any pool falls idle, the
rest will tend to take up the slack keeping the miner busy.
BALANCE:
This strategy monitors the amount of difficulty 1 shares solved for each pool
and uses it to try to end up doing the same amount of work for all pools.
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So many choices. Not sure where to start. What seems to be the most preferred method?
Depending on what you want, I would use Failover, Rotate, or Balance.
If you want to primarily mine on one pool, use failover with a few backup pools.
If you want to try to lower your variance with multiple pools use Rotate (time based switching) or Balance (difficulty 1 share count based switching).
. Much better for structures than legos.
