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NEW (4/9/2013) - Please log into the pool and stress test it. The next thing I need to confirm is if payouts will work correctly - the only way we will know this is if we find a block and it gets 520 confirmations. If something breaks terribly, I'll make sure you still get paid.

Hey folks,
 
I've worked hard the past couple of days to familiarize myself with ppcoind, pushpool, and a pushpool frontend. What I've got now is a decent mining pool running out of the USA for those of us that constantly get dropped from Coinotron.

I am here to announce my new pool at VuxilsPool.com (http://VuxilsPool.com) or www.vpool.me (http://www.vpool.me) - not to be confused with the scam pool vpool.us (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=158267.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=158267.0)).

My pool is currently set to a 2% PPLNS system. This means that you just mine as much as you want, and as blocks are found and confirmed, you will get paid at 520 confirmations per block.

Please let me know if anything comes up or if you run into any difficulties. Thanks!

Best,
Vuxil
VuxilsPool.com (http://VuxilsPool.com) and  www.vpool.me (http://www.vpool.me)

i'll give it a go

Well, won't send my whole farm for testing, but how many ghs do you want, I'll send some

Also I believe its roughly 420 per block atm

Hi Vuxil,

Great, thanks for setting it up. I only have one GPU, but am pointing it here now (320mh/s). Let me know if things work ok.
If you are interested I will PM you a great idea to get a lot of exposure while giving back to our planet.

Cheers.

Do you really have 12597 workers doing 1 GH/s?

Good idea, we don't want you to scam any more folks

nope, that's a gift left in the code by greedi. I'll hunt it down to fix soon

I have been running it for a few hours now and have nearly a 100 unpaid shares (out of 2700+ pool shares.

- When will the account balance show something?
- Does it shows fractions or only whole PPCs?
- What is expected pay-out per 24hrs, gh/s etc?
- Will I be punished when quitting for a while and coming back later?

Let me know as I need my GPU to fill some minimum pay-out on Coinotron :)

I have the same questions as you :) aka I have no idea yet

I would stop mining for now, I needed to collect data and have it in my DB so I can get all of the forms on the website to display properly. I'm not sure what the hell is going on with some of the code (broken tables came straight from the git clone, broken formatting, broken php code, etc)

It will show fractions of PPCs when that part of the code is fixed

Balance would show only after a block is found and confirmed (520 confirms), but the code that shows blocks is currently broken)

Soooo yeah this will take me a while to sort through. Some of the fixing is due to the original interface being tied into LTC services that I have to manually switch over to PPC-alternatives. Other things need to be fixed because they are just plain broke out-of-box (like the current top users page)

After I get everything set up, I'll be rewarding a few people with 0% lifetime fee for helping out. I just need some time to get everything sorted. Point your GPUs to coinotron currently

FYI server going down for restart to clear out cache

you are best off dynamically calculating the reward from the difficulty, or and easier hack would be to up the fee % if you are just going to manually change the reward everyday otherwise your pool is going to run out of coins to pay out.

I know, I'm planning to dynamically calculate the reward from difficulty, I just need to get around to it. Right now I am battling tables and wondering why they don't appear properly. I think the version of PHP I'm using is causing some issues, some cronjobs are breaking as well from invalid operand types

Or, if possible, combine these and have a dynamic fee (appearing clear on the page of course), so you don't have the risk and the users know they will pay the minimum possible fee?

Good idea - I implemented it. I think it's correct  :)

Ok, I fixed most of the interface bugs. I need to check if payments work correctly now, and the only way we can check that is if people actually mine, find a block, and it gets confirmed. Remember this is PPLNS, so it can take a day or two. If something breaks, I'll make sure people are compensated appropriately.  Please log in and start mining!

Pool is going down for a quick backup and reboot, so try in 10 minutes It's back up!

Noticed small bug.  Look at: http://www.vpool.me/stats

"Pool Hash Rate   0.043 Mhash/s"

"Pool Hashrate: 0.04 GH/s"

Left over diplay bugs, I'll clean it up shortly. Tyvm for pointing it out

I suspect round estimation may be broken but I have to catch up on some other work for now. I'll take a closer look when I can

Cool, I am pointing my GPU in your direction for the night, let's see what has happened in a few hours!

Looks like the pool's pretty stable right now, anyone else who can loan us a worker or two right now that would be of great help!

I want to help you in testing.
Tell me please, technical specifications of your server (if many miners will not fall if he is?)
What assembly software are you using?

You can register an account and log in with -u Username.1 -p x, and with 8337 as the port number.

I am running pushpool right now and the mmcFE frontend, which was built off of simplecoins, which was built off of miningfarm. All of this is running on top of Ubuntu. Current hardware is 2GB of ram ontop of 2 i7 cores, and this can be up'd easily as needed. What do you mean by assembly software?

WoW! I'm went register VuxilsPool.com! Cybersquatting is profitable business.  ;D
each will remain in its. Let for you i'm scamer and owner cointron, bitparking, btc-e, mtgox, vatican.va
  :P

I might have to pick up StiffsPool.com then...let the domain race begin  ;)

No thanks, i'm not warrior. War of your interest.  :P

looks promising, i'll throw a couple Ghash your way tonight

Well I am switching the name of this pool, vPool was just a bit of a joke at first, just because my interface and vPool.us' interface look the same due to mmc front end. If you want to buy the domain for some PPCoins, just let me know anytime :)

VuxilsPool.com and vPool.me both work right now to connect to my pool

Not sure what happened, but sometime last night your pool stopped working, My GPU has been idle for at least 2 hours, CGminer only mentions 'New block detected before longpoll"(User ID: 2).

Everyone got disconnected and I had to restart. Not sure what's up, PPCoind and Pushpool were still active when I looked around. I''ll dive into the logs

The weird thing is the backend should be very stable, I just have a traditional PPCoind and Pushpool setup. The front end with mmcFE should be the only buggy part that needed testing...

Pools back up right now as well. Very sorry to everyone who lost some time, we'll sort everything out

If you have trouble logging in from VuxilsPool.com, try vPool.me

Both domains point to the same server, but a couple have reported trouble logging in with VuxilsPool.com. Not sure what the problem is, I will look into it shortly.

edit: I've changed how the server handles cookies and sessions, let me know how it goes. vPool.me is secondary to VuxilsPool.com now, so use VuxilsPool

I tracked down the bugs causing miners to disconnect. Apparently when I kill my SSH session to my server, it kills all programs running that I started during the session. I just have to make ppcoind and pushpool start up as system services - when I get home tonight I will do so.

For now, I will leave my ssh window open - if you suddenly disconnect it means my SSH session timed out. This will be fixed permanently tonight

I'd suggest you also set-up Monit to monitor the services (in case they go down for any other reason).

I pulled it down to write some new start up scripts. All pool related software now run as services that should boot with the server, so they are not dependent on me starting them up through SSH. This should help with stability a bit, as all the downtime seemed to be directly related to my SSH sessions

Monit looks pretty interesting, ty for the tip. I hadn't heard of it previously, but I'll look into it now

Ok I brought the server back offline for about 2 hours so I could implement some new startup scripts and logging features. The cookies issue remains, so be sure you are using VuxilsPool.com now instead of vPool.me. You can still mine using vPool.me, but the website will not log you in using that URL due to how mmcFE handles sessions.

Anyway, you should all be able to connect again and mine away! Thanks!

Ok, server has been completely stable for half of the day now, and we are well on our way to our first block. Thanks everyone for helping me test!

The increased difficulty really sucks  :P

We've had a few seldom crashes overnight, and I apologize for that. Reading through the main PPCoin thread, it seems that ppcoind has a memory leak that causes it to crash. This is in conjunction  with what I found - pushpool and mmcFE are always still running whenever a crash happens, but ppcoind is mysteriously killed. I am setting up a cron job to automatically restart ppcoind every few hours. Thanks everyone for your patience

We've had a few seldom crashes overnight, and I apologize for that. Reading through the main PPCoin thread, it seems that ppcoind has a memory leak that causes it to crash. This is in conjunction  with what I found - pushpool and mmcFE are always still running whenever a crash happens, but ppcoind is mysteriously killed. I am setting up a cron job to automatically restart ppcoind every few hours. Thanks everyone for your patience

Not sure what's up, PPCoind stays healthy all day and then manages to crash 15 minutes after I go to bed and fails to restart. Sorry guys, I'm working everything out

Those crashes might be useful to find out what the problem was, I was never able to reproduce the memory leak or crashes experienced by pool operators. Let's see if we can take the opportunity to find out what it was all about.

This is what monit is for :)

You might want to check out the program 'screen'.

I was doing this for a while but just have cronjobs to boot the services at start. I know have a cronjob restarting ppcoind every 2 hours =\

Every crash, pushpool is running but ppcoind isn't, so I'm not sure what's up

Do you get core dump on this? Maybe try enable core dump using ulimit or something

Monit will check the service as quick as you want it and restart it right away - may be a better option.

The pool seems to be working (I am mining there again now), but the payment system seems broken, as nothing gets paid/credited.
See http://give-me-ltc.com/accountdetails for how it should work (it updates almost real time and credits the balance regularly).

When are you going to credit for work done?

Payment only happens when a block is found and confirmed, and there hasn't been one found yet. In fact, I think Coinotron is the only one consistently finding blocks at the moment because they have the hashing power. vPool hasn't found one in a few days, and D7 got lucky and found one shortly after they brought up their server, but has lacked since.

PPC's mining difficulty needs to be re-adjusted and it's happening gradually. We should find a block here in the next couple of days, and then payments will occur based on the proportions of shares you submitted to find the last block. 

We have over 160k shares submitted thus far and no block. Difficulty is at 230,000 right now, which means it takes about 230,000 shares on average to find a new block. So, we should see a block at around 230,000 (it could take a bit more, theoretically it could take a lot more days, but I'm hoping that's not the case =P )

pushpool is a piece of poo poo, so I will be switching the fork over to the stratum code based off of Seven's work pretty soon here

Login isn't working. I register and it gives an "account created" message, but when I try to log in the page just refreshes. I've tried turning off AdBlock and tried IE, neither work.

Make sure you are using VuxilsPool.com and not vPool.me, I disabled cookie sessions for vPool.me. Let me know if you still have issues

Update - I have Seven's PPC fork with stratum support working in the backend. I can currently connect to it and mine.

I'll slowly work on a frontend and switch us over to the new pool.

Two updates:

1. The pushpool server (the one active right now) found it's first block. 100k shares overdue, but hey at least it found something. Payouts should be good at 520 confirms, make sure you grab your PPCoin.

2. Test stratum pool will be developed at http://198.199.74.113/, you can watch it's live development there. The backend for the pool works at http://198.199.74.113:3333, but worker management is not implemented yet. I'm thinking maybe a PPS pool with a high enough fee to cover volatility.

Vuxil,

Could you release the modifications you made to mmcFE for PPCoin? I'm curious to try my hand at running a PPC pool.

So what's the latest with this pool?

The latest (for me at least) is that it's usually down...

Thanx for the pool i ll try it soon

When sending shares AND the MySQL server fails like it so says in the miner, it screws up cgminer that it starts doing some invalid work...Have to restart cgminer for it to work.

Unless PPcoin has demurrage, this guy is scamming people BECAUSE every hour or so I keep losing coins from his pool. last night I had left it at 2.8X something, later I visited it was at 2.75 now it's 2.69 ppcoins.

This is due to the changing hash rate/difficulty of the PPC network. As the network hash rate goes up the block reward goes down. The number shown on the pool is how much you get if the pool finds a block right now. The reverse will happen when network hash rate drops... you will see your reward going up faster than it is now and it may even go up if you are not even mining atm.

is this pool still alive / legit ?

Nope. Scampool.

"Payouts are automatically sent every 10 minutes to workers that have earned atleast 10PPC. Just register an address with a worker, and mine as that worker. "

Since Days: "Current earnings for Jowbob are: 12.140753601017"

Maybe, the pool has not found a block yet?

Current Round Progress: 346.393530143425%

so, real or scam? Can anyone confirm?