Mining on 2 pools with 1 card

[tito13kfm]

After a recent string of bad luck at btcguild with a 3 million share block, and not wanting to switch and have the same bad luck back at slush's I decided to just try setting up 2 miners on all my cards.

To my surprise it worked fine.  I am getting the same total MHash/sec, but split roughly 50/50 between the 2 pools.  Now if 1 hits an extremely long block I won't have to worry about another 5 hours of "wasted" effort.

I'm surprised this isn't listed in a wiki somewhere, but it seems to make perfect sense.  Is there any downside I should be aware of?

Edit: I'm not really offline at Slush's like my sig says.  The sig generator seems to be acting funny.

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[BombaUcigasa]

Doesn't always work 50/50. Sometimes one of the miners starts using like 95% of the GPU and the other one remains at 5%. Sure in case one of the pools or miners goes down, you get full capacity, but depending on the pools you might get weird returns in short terms? Also it's less efficient (you are paying an insurance fee at the client's location).

[MCWey8]

I run multiple instances of CPU miner for the same reason ..

I have only noticed 1 conversation prior about this topic .. weird it isnt discussed while setting up rigs


must be nice to have all those MH/s and now more steady earnings

[grue]

use flexible mining proxy (search for it!)

[tito13kfm]

use flexible mining proxy (search for it!)

Hmm... interesting.  I may have to dig out my LAMP server and give it a whirl.  I could at least point my least powerful rig at it for 24 hours to see what comes of it. 

My current way seems to be working just fine though.  I know as soon as I get it all setup, point my miners at it, and click go, something catastrophic will go wrong.

[PcChip]

I just made a post a few hours ago about this topic, which received no replies.

I had strange issues where my clients were reporting higher mh/s than the combined pool stats pages showed.

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=13747.0

[tito13kfm]

I just made a post a few hours ago about this topic, which received no replies.

I had strange issues where my clients were reporting higher mh/s than the combined pool stats pages showed.

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=13747.0

Not running in to that issue at all.  Could just be an anomaly.