Do you think it'll be possible to add failover as a feature of ccminer ?
My opinion on the matter is the miner is not the best place to implement failover. Say it gets implemented
for ccminer. Who's fork? What about specialist vesrions that only support one algo? How to coordinate
multiple miners?
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One miner feature that would help is the ability to mantain multiple stratum connections, with only one actuvely mining
at a time. An external manager could use the miner API to signal the manager wihich algo to mine at any given time.
Those are interesting ideas indeed. My main problem atm is "fast" algo switching, since you don't have a way to kill/shutdown "nicely" the miner through API since it only allow RO stuff, you can't "remote control" the miner from it, and often you have to reboot the rig for some algo's to work properly (i have especially this issue with lbry) making the switch quite lenghty even with a very fast OS booting. Having something that would switch algos on the go would be incredible for sure. That's an issue i encountered especially with ccminer, it doesn't like to be killed, sometimes it make your GPU's not working anymore or degraded, only a reboot make it good again, and that make monitoring & stuff pretty complex. I dabble quite a bit in scripting, but im in no way a dev, so any "easier" toolbox is always welcomed
As for the failover, what about a variant of ccminer that support "config" files, kinda like sg-miner, with the ability to host multiple configs entry for the specified algo, this way when a algo-config fail (pool not connecting or something) it could switch to the next configuration for the specified algo, that would cancel out any issue you would have with any forked version that support one or a few algo.
Such system could also expand to something like controlled API config switch or config section switch, and so on.
I dunno how doable this could be, just giving out ideas.
well if you ignore this problem, the connection is faster and more reactive than my previous numericable fiber. Like the pascal pstates, the recent hardware can have some issues :p
i didnt even felt a connection slow down while a china botnet (2500 miners) was slowing down the DCR pool... Chyn' Flood
Oh i couldn't agree more, their network is very good in both hardware and software, but their box are really PoS, same for user/customer interface, if that was improved it could be gold.
