Pool/Solo with Quotas Help (BFGMINER)

[Fuglie]

Hey guys and girls,

Trying to do a little solo mining on the side.  I have it set up and is running but it is either a) not working correctly or b) I dont fully understand load balance.

I am trying to get it where it does 90% of the work for the pool and 10% for solo mining.  However I only get about 1/3 or the hash rate on the pool as I used to and not the 90% I would like. Here is the code, without the load balance command because not sure where to put it so I do that manually:

Code:

{

"pools" : [
        {
                "quota" : "10;192.168.2.9:8332",
                "user" : "blah",
                "pass" : "blah",
		"coinbase-addr" : "1DhHifvuR232342142424SsKJoQUqeC7Z5dc",
		"coinbase-sig" : "Fuglie's solo lotto 10%"
        },
        {
                "quota" : "90;stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333",
                "user" : "blah",
                "pass" : "blah"
        }

]
,

	"scan" : "all"

}

Is it not working correctly or is load balance not working how I think it should (sharing the max available hash rate between the pool/solo)?
Thanks!

- Fuglie

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[Laxe]

Hey guys and girls,

Trying to do a little solo mining on the side.  I have it set up and is running but it is either a) not working correctly or b) I dont fully understand load balance.

I am trying to get it where it does 90% of the work for the pool and 10% for solo mining.  However I only get about 1/3 or the hash rate on the pool as I used to and not the 90% I would like. Here is the code, without the load balance command because not sure where to put it so I do that manually:

Code:

{

"pools" : [
        {
                "quota" : "10;192.168.2.9:8332",
                "user" : "blah",
                "pass" : "blah",
		"coinbase-addr" : "1DhHifvuR232342142424SsKJoQUqeC7Z5dc",
		"coinbase-sig" : "Fuglie's solo lotto 10%"
        },
        {
                "quota" : "90;stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333",
                "user" : "blah",
                "pass" : "blah"
        }

]
,

	"scan" : "all"

}

Is it not working correctly or is load balance not working how I think it should (sharing the max available hash rate between the pool/solo)?
Thanks!

- Fuglie

Yes selecting 'load balance' should balance out your hashing power appropriately.  

It should work but if not replace the solo quota to '1' and your other main pool to '9' and see if that helps.  Or just replace the 'quota' part of your solo pool with "url" as it would normally be.  Actually in hindsight that may be how to fix it since I use a 1:4 ratio with my BFGMiner config and it also has the pool with the '1' quota as just "url".  Also are you using the latest BFGMiner build (3.10.0)?

[Fuglie]

Thanks, think it might be working now, but not sure how to tell if it is doing the solo mining correctly.  I set it to url 1 for solo and quota 9 for slush's.  Right now it is doing the slush part fine, going to let it catch up and see what the hashrate is hopefully its 10% less and that is going to the solo pool.  Also whats the difference in Balance and Load Balance? Also yes using the most current version as of two days ago.

- Fuglie

[Laxe]

Thanks, think it might be working now, but not sure how to tell if it is doing the solo mining correctly.  I set it to url 1 for solo and quota 9 for slush's.  Right now it is doing the slush part fine, going to let it catch up and see what the hashrate is hopefully its 10% less and that is going to the solo pool.  Also whats the difference in Balance and Load Balance? Also yes using the most current version as of two days ago.

- Fuglie

Balance will treat all pools with equal priority so in your case it'll split the hash rate 50/50.  Load balance is where it takes into account quotas which is what I believe you would want anyway.