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pandemic (OP)
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October 01, 2013, 12:07:04 AM
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Hey everybody!

I'm running a BFL little single that runs at about 30gh/s. I'm running through Eclipse MC and am getting strange variations when I use bfgminer vs easyminer.

In easyminer, I'm averaging 33gh/s on the pool side, 30.5gh/s on the miner side.
In bfgminer, I'm getting about 28.5gh/s at the pool and about the same on the miner.

I realize that I'm likely getting a max of 30.5gh/s but I'm wondering why there's a 2gh/s difference in bfgminer vs easyminer.

Any suggestions?
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October 01, 2013, 01:03:49 PM
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Probably not since Easyminer really is just a pretty GUI interface that runs BFG in the background.  As for the pool side, thats just an estimate on your hashrate depending on the amount of shares you submit during a snapshot time period (usually like 15 minutes). So if you turn out some lucky shares/solve some higher difficulty shares/the pool isnt reporting shares and needs to catch up then that can be affected (I have had my Jalapeno clock in at nearly 20GH before because the pool took a while to record all of my shares that when it did it seemed as though I was hashing at a much higher rate).

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October 01, 2013, 07:27:13 PM
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I think it's more than that though. When I run the same pool on easyminer, it shows a relatively steady 30.4gh/s and the pool reflects that. When I run the same pool in bfgminer, it shows as being all over. The last time I ran it it was showing 25gh/s. The pool was showing 29.3 or something. Still, there's a large difference and I'm not sure how to optimize bfgminer.
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October 12, 2013, 04:02:16 AM
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Probably not since Easyminer really is just a pretty GUI interface that runs BFG in the background.  As for the pool side, thats just an estimate on your hashrate depending on the amount of shares you submit during a snapshot time period (usually like 15 minutes). So if you turn out some lucky shares/solve some higher difficulty shares/the pool isnt reporting shares and needs to catch up then that can be affected (I have had my Jalapeno clock in at nearly 20GH before because the pool took a while to record all of my shares that when it did it seemed as though I was hashing at a much higher rate).

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February 17, 2014, 04:10:50 PM
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I am seeing the same problem too, and wondering if someone has found the answer why the ASIC miner achieves higher rate in Easyminer than BFGminer?
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February 17, 2014, 04:13:38 PM
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Have you tried putting your unit in the freezer for 15 minutes before firing up BFGMiner? Sometimes different numbers of chips can come up, that might be it.

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February 17, 2014, 04:31:14 PM
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Are you serious about putting it in freezer? Tongue
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February 17, 2014, 04:44:18 PM
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Yes. But I don't know why. Cooling the unit can sometimes cause more engines to come online, likewise power cycling a hot unit can cause chips to come up again at slightly lower speeds.

Ergo, 15 mins in the freezer if things are odd. This fixes a lot of types of hw stuff.
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