Multiple rigs pointed at same instance of namecoind
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 3:44 am
I have one rig up and running mining solo. I was thinking of adding another rig to mine pointed to the current rig by adding an entry in the conf file. If my current rig stops mining for any reason all the progress is lost, I was thinking if I had 2 rigs pointed at same instance of namecoind then together their total hashing power would help decode blocks faster and if either of the rigs went down from a mining side ( as long as namecoind is still running) I wouldn't lose all the progress on the block since the other rig is pointed at it and still computing. Am I understanding this correctly?
The reason I ask is that this morning I was very close to statistically solving a block (given average times etc etc) and the miners crashed for some reason, if I had another rig pointed at the namecoind server, would it still have continued working on that block?
The reason I ask is that this morning I was very close to statistically solving a block (given average times etc etc) and the miners crashed for some reason, if I had another rig pointed at the namecoind server, would it still have continued working on that block?