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Hmm yes, that's a good idea with the avatars. I will give it a try when I get the time. I think the biggest problem is to fit the user name, because they can be quite long (20 characters if I remember right). I will see if I find a way that looks good.
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I don't know but maybe DrHaribo can give us some insight on what is going on with the server.
The web server process was overloaded with more requests than it was configured for. The rest of the server was ok, but the web part was slowing down badly. With port 80 mining going through the web server, a lot of bitcointalk users loading the avatar images, plus more people using and visiting BitMinter than before, the pressure on the web server has gone up lately. I modified the configuration and restarted the web server. It seems to be running fine again now. I just have to be careful I don't let it use too many resources and affect the mining. The Apache web server software scales really badly (it needs insane amounts of memory when you have many users). I always intended to switch to the more modern Nginx, but I've been putting it off to instead implement new BitMinter features. I may have to switch soon, though. If you need funds for a better server I would gladly chip in. This pool has been good for me.
Thanks a lot for the offer. After a couple little fixes I am working on now I will implement donations. If miners donate a little I'll look at some bigger servers.  |
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Looking into it. Only the webserver running slowly. Luckily, mining is going fine. Normal load on the server, so not sure yet what's wrong.
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Wow! 5,348,402 proofs of work and 99.0% CDF.
Finally the block was built by our hero DeathAndTaxes!
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Hehe that's true, the bounty can be pool hopped. Kind of works the opposite of normal pool hopping - you have to join the server when it's having an unlucky block.  |
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Welcome back, teflone it clearly slows and drops to around 300 -320 mhash, then climbs, and repeats...
Hmm, did you update Catalyst since last you were mining? The miner runs slower on the latest Catalyst. I've never seen it going up and down that much though. If you have another miner installed you could see if it has the same problem. We'll get out of this block before you know it guys. then maybe we can get another 5 in one day?
Let's hope for that! The annoying thing with bitcoin mining is that you spend most of your time on the unlucky blocks. The lucky ones finish so quickly. |
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Damn, that's not the record I wanted us to break.
P4man, interesting idea. I'll think about implementing something like that.
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By the way, you can see the luck of all the blocks at https://bitminter.com/stats/luck
Looks like 98.0% CDF is the worst we've had. At the time I write this the current block is 97.93% CDF. Could become a new record for bad luck.  |
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I know. I will make it possible to see older blocks. That's been on my list a long time. |
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I saw unstable network 05:17-05:34 and 07:30-07:33 (CET timezone). Sometimes GPUs idling and sometimes working but with slow network warnings. Maybe this coincides with your log but different timezone.
Sorry for this.
I have noticed sometimes that the server loses network connectivity for 2-3 seconds at a time. And now it seems the network was very unstable for several minutes at a time. Also there was the time a couple months back when the data center's routers were hacked and they were off the internet for several hours. I was planning to move to a new server and data center in a few weeks. But I may have to move sooner if things get worse.
Also, can someone please finish this block?
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New top speed today, 160 GH/s. But yeah, it was only for a short while.
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Come on guys! We need 2-5 GH/s more to push us over the magical 100 GH/s barrier.  |
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Try your 6970s at BitMinter.com with our custom miner. Just make sure you use Catalyst 11.11 or earlier and it should be damn fast. I will fix the miner soon to run fast on Catalyst 11.12 and later as well.
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I will be joining you guys as soon as the new FPGA minning rig is ready Nice! What kind of FPGA? |
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Yes, very lucky start on the new year. Let's hope it continues this way. Happy new year! And congrats on your first bitcoin block, Turbor! |
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The server is telling the miner that the share is rejected only if it is rejected on both chains (bitcoin and namecoin). I agree this is confusing. Better to report accept/reject to miner based on the bitcoin chain only, perhaps? Difficulty: "The chance that a proof of work will create a block is 1 divided by the difficulty. ..."
Accepted: "Proofs of work that would create a block at difficulty 1. Most will not actually create a block but serve as a measure of the amount of work done by each user."
Going by that, 100% of proofs of work would create a block at difficulty 1.
Yes, if the bitcoin difficulty was 1 then every proof of work you send to the pool (that is not stale/rejected) would create a new block. The bitcoin difficulty is much higher than 1, though. |
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There was a problem with signing up - bug should be fixed now.
I will probably at some point add regular name+password login and facebook login. But not a high priority right now - I have a long list of things to implement.
Overclock, fan control, etc. are things I will look into for the miner.
About joining forces with other pools, this will take some work, but I have some ideas I'm working on. It will take some time, though.
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I would try this miner if it was not written in Java. Any chance of making one in C?
I might make a command-line version in the future, but it will most likely also run on a Java Virtual Machine. Why do you prefer C? Does this miner work on other pools, or just your own ? What about backup pool support ?
So far only in my pool. Support for backup pools is planned, but everything takes time. |
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Welcome back, Turbor and the others who returned Quick update on the website: - You can now add multiple OpenID identities to your bitminter account, go to My Account->Logins in the menus
- Account balances again shown at the top of the transactions list. This had accidentally disappeared after the changes to how balances are shown on the "account details" page
- Fixed block and shift timestamps on the full-page livestats page to be UTC timezone like all other timestamps on the website
- Fixed full-page livestats sometimes playing the "new block" sound when there was no new block
In other news, v1.1.0 of the BitMinter miner is out: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=31163.msg662061#msg662061And also, today we have 1500 members |
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Wow, we just broke the 1500 member mark. Thank you to all who mine here. |
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