Restarting Salad for new jobs
Why restarting Salad to get a different container job hurts your earnings and the network.
Don't restart Salad to try to get a new container job. It can hurt your ability to get jobs in the future and it harms the Salad network. Salad already moves you to a new, more profitable container job automatically when one becomes available.
When you deliberately restart, the job you were running fails. Customers whose jobs keep failing on your machine can stop sending that job to you, temporarily or permanently. Do it repeatedly and you run out of new jobs to try, with no way back to the ones you were running before. It also damages the network as a whole: customers who can't keep their jobs running leave, which means fewer jobs and lower earnings for every Chef.
What should I do instead?
Keep Salad running as normal. If a more profitable container job becomes available, Salad assigns it to you on its own. If what you are earning isn't worth it to you, pause Salad and set up a demand alert so you can start again when demand for your hardware is higher.
If a job fails or restarts on its own, that is a different problem; see Why do jobs keep failing or restarting?.
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How to set up a demand alert
Get an email and in-app notification when demand for your GPU on the Network Monitor reaches a level you choose.
Your PC
Guides for the hardware and Windows setup Salad depends on: identifying parts, drivers, virtualization and WSL, networking, remote access and working with Support.