Subnostr

Dumb question maybe, but why is the hash rate of a miner not stable? What makes it fluctuating so much? #asknostr

this is something ive wondered for a while. ignoring temperature and pressure dynamics, as well as error rates (which again should seem to come consistently) i can only speculate.

maybe some numbers are harder than others to hash resulting in a disparity of time?

or some dustbunny or crud affecting airflow?

do immersed miners perform more consistently than air cooled?

is a period background process on the miner firmware consuming too much compute or memory and creating a bottleneck in capture or reporting?

more research is warrented here for efficiency.

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mutatrum 1y ago

No, it's on a much smaller timescale. This is 20 minutes on a BitAxe, that's already a 10% difference, and it keeps going up and down. Temperature and voltages look completely stable. It must be something about the calculation.

Although what I did notice is that the measuring points are sometimes further apart than other times, so maybe it's something about the template distribution? Lots of tx's on the top of the fee range coming in makes a lot of new templates, which makes it slow down?