What do CD and DC mean on load balance HUD and when are pools meant to switch ?

[pmalek]

I have the following HUD while using load-balance :

 Pool 0  | CD:4738 A:8624 R:16 RTT:52ms Q:12/20 DC:0
 Pool 1  | CD:1    A:0    R:0  RTT: 0ms Q: 0/3  DC:0
 Pool 2  | CD:889  A:0    R:0  RTT: 0ms Q: 0/0  DC:1
 Pool 3  | CD:0    A:0    R:0  RTT: 0ms Q: 0/0  DC:0

I have pools defined with following quotas : 20,3,0,0. What do CD and DC mean and when are the pools supposed to switch (at what intervals) ?

[Kalroth]

CD is short for Coin Difficulty, also known as Network Difficulty.
DC is short for disconnect, the number of disconnects.

The pools are going to switch when they run out of quotas, you can see the 12/20 number on the first pool. Once it reaches 20, it'll switch to the second pool and use the 3 quotas there.

Then it'll reset quotas to zero and start over.

[pmalek]

Ok thanks a lot for the explanation. Maybe this should be also added to README?

[Kalroth]

It is added in the README, check the quotas section. The Coin Difficulty and Disconnect columns are described in my change log.

[pmalek]

It is indeed attached to the commit message :

commit 1b776a01c988281be925c6a0839c0067cdb869b3
Author: Martin Danielsen <kalroth@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon Mar 3 22:33:27 2014 +0100

    Pool status display rewritten to span over several lines.
    CD is short for coin difficulty (also known as network difficulty, I think).
    Accepted and rejected numbers are now based on share difficulty rather than share count.
    RTT is short for Round-Trip Time and measures the time it took to submit a share to the server.
    DC lists the number of disconnects. Note that servers that aren't in use may report a lot of disconnects, since they do not implement a proper 90 second idle notification message.

But as for me it is quite difficult to find when I wanted to know what all of this mean.

[Kalroth]

It's also found in the change log here:
http://k-dev.net/cgminer/kalroth-changes.txt

[pmalek]

Yes, well still not so easy as other explanations from contained in README. Anyway that was my suggestion. If you don't feel like changing it in README (or somewhere else) we can close the issue :)