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June 11, 2011, 09:53:14 AM
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I read somewhere that there is a GPU miner that can switch from one pool to another if it detects that one is down or unresponsive. Can anyone point me to a tutorial on how to set this up?
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June 11, 2011, 10:05:48 AM
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yes i believe the one I was using last night by SomeoneWeird has this feature

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June 11, 2011, 10:35:22 AM
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You can run 2 instances of a miner (like Phoenix) on 1 card.
The first instance is setup to one pool, the other to another pool.
Mhash/s will be split 50/50 and if one pool fails, the other instance will go 100%.
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June 12, 2011, 07:28:40 AM
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Or you can use the flexible mining proxy (http://forum.bitcoin.org/?topic=5506) to configure more than one pool and it will switch for you. Compatible with most miners Cheesy

Want to see what developers are chatting about? http://bitcoinstats.com/irc/bitcoin-dev/logs/
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June 12, 2011, 07:31:19 AM
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Or you can use the flexible mining proxy (http://forum.bitcoin.org/?topic=5506) to configure more than one pool and it will switch for you. Compatible with most miners Cheesy

But what happens if the proxy is down?
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June 12, 2011, 07:31:59 AM
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Oh, cute proxy...

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June 12, 2011, 07:32:51 AM
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Or you can use the flexible mining proxy (http://forum.bitcoin.org/?topic=5506) to configure more than one pool and it will switch for you. Compatible with most miners Cheesy

But what happens if the proxy is down?
You host it yourself, if it goes down you're in trouble anyway Cheesy

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June 12, 2011, 07:33:49 AM
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Or you can use the flexible mining proxy (http://forum.bitcoin.org/?topic=5506) to configure more than one pool and it will switch for you. Compatible with most miners Cheesy

But what happens if the proxy is down?
You host it yourself, if it goes down you're in trouble anyway Cheesy

Ah, ok.
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June 12, 2011, 07:35:47 AM
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June 12, 2011, 07:42:29 AM
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This problem has already been solved.

See this thread and https://github.com/kylegibson/poclbm


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June 12, 2011, 09:30:36 AM
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I read somewhere that there is a GPU miner that can switch from one pool to another if it detects that one is down or unresponsive. Can anyone point me to a tutorial on how to set this up?

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yes i believe the one I was using last night by SomeoneWeird has this feature

Yeah, BitMiner has fallback support.
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June 12, 2011, 12:03:41 PM
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Or you can just set up your backup pool as another miner that runs at a lower priority than your primary (the OpenCL miner in guiminer has a -f option that allows you to set a priority, 30 is the default, bigger number is lower priority).  If/when the primary miner/pool goes down, the secondary miner/pool steps up because the GPU is underutilised.

I use it to switch between btcguild as my primary and slush as my backup and it works just fine.

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