Question about cgminer and multiple workers...

[cthomas1489]

So I've been starting to mine recently and have used my main gaming pc so far whenever I'm not using it (7950s). I use GUIMiner-Scrypt and it allows me to create a miner for each gpu which I attach to an individual worker from my pool (Currently on Miningpool.co mining fast coins, if that matters).

Anyway, I just put together a seperate rig with 4 gpus to mine full time and am using ubuntu for the OS. I've installed everything and got cgminer up and running but I have a quick question. I created new workers on my pool but in the cgminer script I only put in one username and password (ie -u username.workername -p password) and I believe it is apply all the gpus hashrates to the one worker..? Am I correct in assuming so? Should I do it this way or should I have each gpu to a seperate worker? and what would the script lines look like for that?

Thanks!

[PrintMule]

There's no point of dividing your cards into workers, only use of that could be monitoring each cards performance, but pools are mostly lying in that regard. Your mining software would tell you much more correct info than pool reports.

Only use of dividing gpus into workers = diving them amongst different pools to lessen variance, or mine different coins at a time.

EDIT: Also if you have good ram - you can pretty much mine with 3 of your gpus 24/7, it will not affect anything you do on a pc with the last card - be it gaming, rendering, etc.