Mining on two pools as a load balancer

[leifg]

Hello everyone,

as the us server of eligius is currently down, I was thinking about what the best way is to implement a load balancer.

I thought the easiest way would be to start 2 mining tools on 2 different pools. The hashrate per miner would then equally distributed on two pools, but as one pool goes offline, the hashrate on the other pool would then go to 100%.

Is there anything wrong with that approach. Are there any other advantages of multiple mining (I currently only have one gpu) or am I missing something and that is actually a really bad idea?

[jkminkov]

I am running 2 miners on one card pointed to eu and us eligius servers, but only phoenix or phatk miners can split gpu power 50:50

[rb1205]

Just tried on Diablo miner, and it's a big no no, GPU usage drops from 98% to about 80%-90%, and hashing drops even lower.

[RaTTuS]

guiminer seems to work ok on 2 or more pools

[mjsbuddha]

Running two miners on one GPU works for me as long as I split the hashrate 50-50. If I give one miner the -f60 tag so that the majority of the hash rate goes to one pool my gpu usage drops to 90% and I lose about 10% total hash rate. Any ideas? I would like one primary pool and one backup rather then two pools always with 50%