Well, it's doing better ATM, with 19 shares and just 1 dead.

But, it's also adding a lot of load to the system and I can tell that if you took a large enough sample it'd be worse...    simply because (if nothing else):

2013-06-17 06:45:57.826722 New work for worker! Difficulty: 1.586613 Share difficulty: 1237.801257 Total block value: 25.956635 BTC including 1204 transactions
2013-06-17 06:45:57.914912 New work for worker! Difficulty: 1.586613 Share difficulty: 1237.801257 Total block value: 25.956635 BTC including 1204 transactions
2013-06-17 06:45:58.003061 New work for worker! Difficulty: 1.586613 Share difficulty: 1237.801257 Total block value: 25.956635 BTC including 1204 transactions
2013-06-17 06:45:58.091624 New work for worker! Difficulty: 1.586613 Share difficulty: 1237.801257 Total block value: 25.956635 BTC including 1204 transactions
2013-06-17 06:45:58.182583 New work for worker! Difficulty: 5.000000 Share difficulty: 1237.801257 Total block value: 25.956635 BTC including 1204 transactions

vs

2013-06-17 08:06:45.156392 New work for worker! Difficulty: 1.170742 Share difficulty: 1063.111336 Total block value: 25.207522 BTC including 280 transactions
2013-06-17 08:06:45.180769 New work for worker! Difficulty: 1.170742 Share difficulty: 1063.111336 Total block value: 25.207522 BTC including 280 transactions
2013-06-17 08:06:45.204890 New work for worker! Difficulty: 1.170742 Share difficulty: 1063.111336 Total block value: 25.207522 BTC including 280 transactions
2013-06-17 08:06:45.229186 New work for worker! Difficulty: 1.170742 Share difficulty: 1063.111336 Total block value: 25.207522 BTC including 280 transactions
2013-06-17 08:06:45.256788 New work for worker! Difficulty: 5.000000 Share difficulty: 1063.111336 Total block value: 25.207522 BTC including 280 transactions

vs

2013-06-17 09:22:29.858692 New work for worker! Difficulty: 1.203949 Share difficulty: 1063.354280 Total block value: 25.000000 BTC including 0 transactions
2013-06-17 09:22:29.862099 New work for worker! Difficulty: 1.203949 Share difficulty: 1063.354280 Total block value: 25.000000 BTC including 0 transactions
2013-06-17 09:22:29.865353 New work for worker! Difficulty: 1.203949 Share difficulty: 1063.354280 Total block value: 25.000000 BTC including 0 transactions
2013-06-17 09:22:29.868686 New work for worker! Difficulty: 1.203949 Share difficulty: 1063.354280 Total block value: 25.000000 BTC including 0 transactions
2013-06-17 09:22:29.874997 New work for worker! Difficulty: 5.000000 Share difficulty: 1063.354280 Total block value: 25.000000 BTC including 0 transactions

...  I dunno if it goes by the order it says, but if so, it generates my new work last, and the other four people on my pool before me.  With 1204 transactions, it takes 0.355861 seconds between #1 and #5, with 280 transactions it takes 0.100396 seconds, with 0 transactions it takes 0.016305 seconds.  More people mining at your pool = more pronounced effect.  If my pool was private w/ just myself on it, it'd still generate work, what, about ~.05s slower with all those transactions vs having 0 (though the lowest I'd drop my maxblocksize to would probably have a dozen or so).

In the 1204 case, that's adding 355ms to a 10s cycle, which should result in 3.5% more DOA

ed: didn't check to see whether it was based on # of transactions or size of total transactions.  also, it's adding like *340ms, not 355ms.  machine load could have affected times a bit, but there's still the trend that's plain to see.  not doing anything else on it atm besides running bitcoind and p2pool

ed2: there's also the bizarre thing where now i'm suddenly receiving more data than sending.   logically (to me at least) that seems like it'd result in more orphans?    what's up w/ that, anyway?  anyway, based simply on the ^^ up there that indicates i'm receiving work probably about 150ms slower on average, i'm going to cut this short and reduce my maxblocksize again.  even if you go with an extreme best case scenario and say I find a block w/ 1BTC in transaction fees...  when I receive less than 1/100th of the total pie, that isn't worth 1.5% more DOA..  

though I suppose one could make a case for going with 10000, 20000, or 30000 maxblocksize...  (or setting the minimum relay fee much higher, and then setting maxblocksize to 1000000)

ed3:  oh, and while I was typing ed2, I did just pick up an orphan.  heh.

ed4:  6 transactions

2013-06-17 10:17:59.878132 New work for worker! Difficulty: 1.589736 Share difficulty: 1259.470588 Total block value: 25.004000 BTC including 6 transactions
2013-06-17 10:17:59.881803 New work for worker! Difficulty: 1.589736 Share difficulty: 1259.470588 Total block value: 25.004000 BTC including 6 transactions
2013-06-17 10:17:59.885549 New work for worker! Difficulty: 1.589736 Share difficulty: 1259.470588 Total block value: 25.004000 BTC including 6 transactions
2013-06-17 10:17:59.891466 New work for worker! Difficulty: 1.589736 Share difficulty: 1259.470588 Total block value: 25.004000 BTC including 6 transactions
2013-06-17 10:17:59.898578 New work for worker! Difficulty: 5.000000 Share difficulty: 1259.470588 Total block value: 25.004000 BTC including 6 transactions

0.020446 seconds

2013-06-17 10:23:14.937386 New work for worker! Difficulty: 1.336302 Share difficulty: 1245.582868 Total block value: 25.045000 BTC including 6 transactions
2013-06-17 10:23:14.940579 New work for worker! Difficulty: 1.336302 Share difficulty: 1245.582868 Total block value: 25.045000 BTC including 6 transactions
2013-06-17 10:23:14.943615 New work for worker! Difficulty: 1.336302 Share difficulty: 1245.582868 Total block value: 25.045000 BTC including 6 transactions
2013-06-17 10:23:14.946616 New work for worker! Difficulty: 1.336302 Share difficulty: 1245.582868 Total block value: 25.045000 BTC including 6 transactions
2013-06-17 10:23:14.952521 New work for worker! Difficulty: 5.000000 Share difficulty: 1245.582868 Total block value: 25.045000 BTC including 6 transactions

0.015135 seconds..   0 transactions probably comes with some base amount, i doubt the 6 adds much time at all

OK, so right now, my server is reading:

Node uptime: 3.124 days Peers: 73 out, 19 in

Shares: 256 total (3 orphaned, 14 dead) Efficiency: 116.2%

I started pinging the first hop (not counting my actual router) instead of the server, so the ping times are about 180ms lower than what I'd get to nogleg.com.  I set the packetloss scale to 10%, since local packetloss is rly, rly bad (a remote ping would show 10x as much packetloss).  Started doing this so I can give this info to ISP, which continues to deny bandwidth exhaust issue...

but, anyway:



Out of those 256 shares, about 85% are mine & the number of orphans/DOA from the other people wasn't disproportionate to my own.

So, now I'll set maxblocksize to 1000000 (!!), and restart the server.  Not a huge deal anymore since even with my 6.7c or so electricity, bitcoins are just marginal profit nowadays.  Don't mind a lot more DOA/orphans for the next day or two for the sake of showing that this setting kills.

I apologize to the other ppl that are pointed to my server atm.  Maybe come back in a few days?

they're a curse, damnit

just like AOL was a curse back in the 90s

tell 'em like it is, brother

only if you aren't using 5xxx cards, otherwise you're losing way too much equity

aggression 13 seems a bit excessive to me

i use 8 or 9 in ubuntu and 7 or 8 in windows

anyway, this inability to pull up the gpu screen occurred with BAMT, so technically it was debian.    did you try it w/o loading a config file?

windows 7 64-bit

unless it's power starved, then it's ubuntu on a stick

that happened to me for a bit

i don't recall what i did to 'fix' it.  maybe lowered the aggression settings in the cgminer.conf file?  or deleted the bin files?     (or installed windows?  hmm)

Unknown Blocks.
Relayed By   count
199.48.164.36   5
122.128.109.61   3
126.79.45.236   2

this 199.48.164.36 address, is owned by Goodluck Jonathan

It'll go up 20%, 25% or more for the next few cycles.  Then eventually the hobbyists will stop spending all their excess cash and the difficulty level won't increase as much.

all the prices for ASICs and such I have seen lately are ludicrous

but I applaud the business savvy of those folks that have sold/are selling their avalon 2's atm

plus asicminer flooding the exchanges with bitcoins

1st step: bend over

i am, that's why i wouldnt purchase such a thing

I got one powercolor and it works fine.  It's running at 1200 core/185 memory.

But then I guess I don't mess with those bizarre alt-coins that destroy video cards

well, my fan is going 4800RPM at 80%

they are not

Where was this riser manufactured?

China, Taiwan (another part of China, that has its own special name), Singapore, or Indonesia?

no, those ppl replying are just all foolish

go to slickdeals and wait for a 7770, 7790, or possibly a 7850 to appear

buy one of those, mine on it for a bit, then sell it on ebay for profits after redeeming your rebate and selling the included games

i have a system that runs 3x7790 cards at 300mhash, it takes 220 watts

never buy gigabyte cards

this should be in the hardware forum i think, but

i don't see the power supply?

if it's some cheap generic pos and your cards by themselves are using 950 watts, then you best have ubuntu on a usb stick or something