I have only been wrestling with ccminer for the last 4 hours, and can tell you for certain, every combination of INTENSITY parameter I threw at it, was ignored.  The default settings are NOT the fastest for my cards.  I have also been spending this whole time trying to learn this crazy "launch-config" parameter, digging through documents to find which of the 1,000 different technical specifications ccminer needs for me to accept.  It's parameter list is confusing to say the least.

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In that case.  It seems not worth the time or hassle of maintaining them.  Good luck.
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I am a software developer, it's what I do.  Dumping money into rigs is my last step, I am not in a hurry to make a mistake.  Writing code and analyzing tests is not a hassle for me, it's my pleasure and experience.

look for a stratum proxy for your algo, there's one for cryptonight here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2654871.0


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Finally - yes, this was the type of answer I am looking for.  Thank you.

In case anyone else was actually interested, I found:

"XMR-NODE-PROXY"


The key word here was "LOWER DIFFICULTY SETTING".   By doing so, allows the smaller machines to become more efficient.  

I use CPU hardware.  Servers, some small some big.  I build what I can afford, and use what I have.  My small machines are used for testing, the big ones are for production after I verify my tests on a small scale. 

"build bigger rigs" is an easy answer.  Buying new / different hardware is not an option.  I did not ask "how do I get more hash power ?".  Please remain focused on the topic.

Hi.  Thank you for sharing.  I actually spent a few hours TODAY just scanning this FORUM for key words "xmr-stak" combined with an array of things "cryptonight" "miningpoolhub" "getaddrinfo" and did not find very many results.  I also wasted some more time scanning google for answers, no resolve there.

I believe I also tried to switch to AEON and try to mine that with xmr, and also got the same results. 

So, as a matter of troubleshooting - my next step will be to try and use other software.  My version of xmr-stak was modified by myself and I customized my own routines, that work perfectly for the other monero pools I have tried so far.  Hopefully I overlooked something in my account setup that is rejecting my worker from attaching.

When I compare the ratio of worked performed and accepted shares on my smaller machines compared to my larger ones - the pool seems to sometimes drown out the smaller machines.  A small starving machine with barely any data to process suffers doing nothing but wasting electric.  My idea would be to combine my work into one large loaded stream, to make efficient use of all my machines and not just the largest and fastest.  There are other advantages as well.  

Last night I spent a couple hours trying to connect XMR-STAK to miningpoolhub, with no success.  I read the instruction thoroughly.  The system appears to have it's own login, where I place my own wallets that I did do.  For reasons unknown, I just can not get XMR-STAK to connect.  It keeps throwing out error:


I tried connecting using SSL

and get a different error:


I can ping the address.  I tried "use_tls" both TRUE and FALSE.  I feel like I tried every option.  XMR-STAK is listed on the site's list of software to use.  Does anyone else use this pool service, can I get any advice please?

I have 4 machines connecting and each of them produce at a different rate on the same algorithm and pool.  Is there an application I can run on to be a master, and to combine the hash power off to my slave machines?

I would like to just merge the power of all the machines to one.  Have the master application distribute the load internally to my machines and channel it through to the pool.  To the external pool, I would have one machine - but instead I have 4 of them working together.