Mining on multiple pools

[mechtronic2001]

I'm sure this is here somewhere and if so pls direct to the thread, but is there a way to allocate hashing power and mine on multiple pools/multiple coins? I'd like to mine both doge and moon right now and then be able to allocate some to new coins when they're released. What do I need in my .config to make this happen?

[Wipeout2097]

{
"pools" :
[
   {
      "quota" : "10;stratum+tcp://dogecoinpool.com:3333",
      "user" : "mechtronic2001.1",
      "pass" : "x"
   },
       {
      "quota" : "10;stratum+tcp://mooncoinpool.com:3333",
      "user" : "mechtronic2001.1",
      "pass" : "x"
   }
]
,


Replace what's in bold and put the above in the beginning of your config

[mechtronic2001]

{
"pools" :
[
   {
      "quota" : "10;stratum+tcp://dogecoinpool.com:3333",
      "user" : "mechtronic2001.1",
      "pass" : "x"
   },
       {
      "quota" : "10;stratum+tcp://mooncoinpool.com:3333",
      "user" : "mechtronic2001.1",
      "pass" : "x"
   }
]
,


Replace what's in bold and put the above in the beginning of your config

This is great, thx! What is the 10 representing in your example? Is that a percentage?

[Wipeout2097]

{
"pools" :
[
   {
      "quota" : "10;stratum+tcp://dogecoinpool.com:3333",
      "user" : "mechtronic2001.1",
      "pass" : "x"
   },
       {
      "quota" : "10;stratum+tcp://mooncoinpool.com:3333",
      "user" : "mechtronic2001.1",
      "pass" : "x"
   }
]
,


Replace what's in bold and put the above in the beginning of your config

This is great, thx! What is the 10 representing in your example? Is that a percentage?

Those are arbitrary values per se, what matters is the value vs the total of all. Those add up to 20, so 10 is 50% of work per pool. You could have 50 and 50. You could have 100 and 5, which would lead to most to one pool and residual work to the other.

You can have more than 2 pools, of course, each with an arbitrary quota.

[forcefedvr6]

I found that, for me, older versions of CGminer don't use the quota command very well, if at all.  Maybe I was not setting it up right (good chance),  but the guide above, nor anything else that I tried in the config seemed to work for the older version that I was on.  I think it was version 3.1.

This problem had been bothering me for a while,  so I recently decided to remove it from the back burner. 

Seems that version 3.4.3 is the oldest version that accurately allocates quota percentages.

I loaded it up a couple weeks ago and set the quotas to add up to 100%, and it does a really good job of dividing up the hashpower accurately. 

You can also leave extra pools in the config, or add extra pools through cgminer once it has started,  and just set them to quota 00  so that they will start and stay idle,  and then you can switch/adjust pools by adjusting any of the quotas on the fly within cgminer.  Just set 00 for any that you want to start or go idle,  and have the rest add up to 100% total quota.