I want to donate and currently do, but can you lower the aggression level you have set for the donation period? My machines basically are frozen when donation runs.

Most pools have mandatory fees also. I really don't get why people insist there should be no fees for services rendered. Yes the pool does get the transaction fees, but I'd wager the hosting fees easily exceed those.

/end of colored text.

Well good news maybe.

I ended up having to restart my miners and surprisingly it ended up being ~roughly~ the same time as a round started.

My miners show

913.52 Mhash/sec - 886 Accepted - 5 Rejected = .564% Rejected

at the same +- minute BTCGuild shows: 896 (0)

I hope you're not counting stales so people stop bitching? How do I submit stales automatically lol;o)

But my apologies, this is supposed to be a kudos for low stales. So Kudos. lol sorry it sounds weak now.

I'm guessing you forwarded uscentral? My stales were super low < .5 and have gone up to >2.00 in the last 30 or so. Granted it could be something else entirely, but if you are looking for feedback ;o)

As far as Afterburner, I have 2 6950's and a single 6770 in the same box. If I closed afterburner memory clocks would default to stock, but if I lowered card 1 memory clock to lowest, clicked settings and chose card 2, lowered mc, settings, card 1, my mc would let me go lower.

Closing and reopening despite me following the "yes i agree OC'ing may cause my card to fry" would always default to stock.

Thanks. Adding noprompt worked. Gratuity on its way to you.

Ahh Awesome thanks ;o) I'll give that a go tomorrow!

If this isn't solved yet I just found in another thread to set memory clock 100 below core clock. Then current clocks will match peak clocks. Wasn't as low (300) as I wanted to go, but it did drop my cards temps by about 10c. I'd link the other thread but I already blew past it and didn't bookmark it.

so:
aticonfig --od-setclocks=920,820 --adapter=0

Works pretty well for me. ;o)

So does total rewards decrease if you move to a different pool or don't submit shares in consequent rounds?

I had .301 total rewards last night. I set my minimum payout to .3 thinking that at some point today it would get payed out. I then realized that block 135220 still shows as no block found so I assumed it would get invalidated at some point and was going to adjust minimum payout accordingly. Now though my total reward is shown as .25xxxx. So basically my unconfirmed reward went down, but I don't see any invalid blocks shown in the last 6-8 hours when I last saw the original reward amount?

I realize this is a pitiful amount of btc, but why would it decrease by 1/6th simply because I stopped mining here?

Thank you for the noprompt tip. I'll give it a whirl tonight.

Now that you say that I entirely agree, well mostly. Really a live boot was just the simplist/quickest way I could get an image up and running as I had borrowed a win7 enterprise install disk that I was using in "test" or unregistered mode. I believe it allows 30 days under that scenario without a check in/registration to a kms server and I was on 29 days or somesuch.

On a side note what other problems do people have running a live usb? I've had none other than the prompting.

Thanks it was worth a try. I still get the "please remove the installation media (if any) and hit ENTER:"

Does anyone know how to remove the restriction where when running from a ubuntu 11.04 "Live USB" with persistent storage it requires you to hit the enter key after doing a shutdown? I was at work (and of course this was on my lunch break) ha ha ha did a shutdown now -r and I had to call my brother to run downstairs and hit the enter key so ubuntu would actually do the reboot rather than requesting that the CD or USB drive be removed. This would be a tip-able reply ;o) first valid first served.

Gracias!

And for any wondering no I don't live with my parents I'm old enough that my brother is renting from me. No free electricity here ;o)

Edit: yes I really did do a sudo shutdown -r now in case anyone is quick to say I didn't type it correctly above lol

Lol what? I would have went after the dick sys admin who sent all the traffic my way and disrupted my website because he couldn't handle his own.

Thanks for Smartcoin Jon it's awesome.

For any linux gurus reading this I need a little quick help if possible. I did a new install of ubuntu 11.04 with smartcoin. Smartcoin is up and running, but when I go to the status page it shows gpu temp/load correctly but shows gpu0 as << down >> and gpu1/gpu2 as 0 khash/sec. Checking my stats at my pool though I'm submitting shares correctly. When the screen tries to update the stats it flashes at the bottom             cannot open "/tmp/smartcoin-status"

I'm logged in with the same user that installed the program.

Any ideas?
Thanks.

EDIT: I did a chmod 777 smartcoin-status which has stopped the "cannot open" message, but still no hash or share values are showing up.
EDIT2: Reboot of course solved it.... lol thanks though ;o)

I'm not sure whether to apologize or not but I feel like I'm being rather needy tonight.

Round times and round shares are increasing, as are my personal shares, but none of these values, with the exception of round time are increasing as I would normally expect them to be. I don't have any concrete numbers, nor have I wrote them down in the past but from what I recall normally we do a 100%(1379223) of difficulty in 40 minutes or so. A few minutes ago we have done 1.96 M shares in 1:46:00. I'm not a stats person so I'm not even going to attempt a comparison.

What's going on?

Edit:
Confirmed increased NM. Was just crying wolf.

Dang I wish I had your problem with those low latencies ;o)

Hmm before I hit post I tried a ping or three and I am losing packets all of a sudden. Something on your end eluthria?
Pinging uscentral.btcguild.com [69.147.241.114] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 69.147.241.114: bytes=32 time=61ms TTL=50
Reply from 69.147.241.114: bytes=32 time=58ms TTL=50
Request timed out.
Reply from 69.147.241.114: bytes=32 time=56ms TTL=50
Request timed out.
Reply from 69.147.241.114: bytes=32 time=65ms TTL=50
Request timed out.
Reply from 69.147.241.114: bytes=32 time=59ms TTL=50
Reply from 69.147.241.114: bytes=32 time=62ms TTL=50
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 69.147.241.114:
    Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 6, Lost = 4 (40% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 56ms, Maximum = 65ms, Average = 60ms

Edit: Sorry I'm a network guy and I abhor people saying it is my problem, which it usually isn't. Are you aware of any changes on uscentral that is causing large packet loss? ;o) and on a side note my latency dropped almost in half as well.

  8    30 ms    34 ms    31 ms  ggr2.attga.ip.att.net [12.122.81.97]
  9    29 ms    29 ms    34 ms  206.111.2.89.ptr.us.xo.net [206.111.2.89]
 10    45 ms    37 ms    31 ms  207.88.14.193.ptr.us.xo.net [207.88.14.193]
 11    55 ms    61 ms    52 ms  207.88.14.10.ptr.us.xo.net [207.88.14.10]
 12    53 ms    60 ms    57 ms  edge1.dal.ubiquityservers.com [207.88.185.110]
 13    60 ms    66 ms    65 ms  69.147.241.114.rdns.ubiquityservers.com [69.147.
241.114]

Trace complete.

Edit again: I just wanted to clarify that I'm not saying it is btcguilds fault at all lol. I re-read my edit and I realized it could be interpreted as such. My apologies if anyone understood it that way. I'm just asking if eleuthria is aware of anything. ;o) ha

You could post a traceroute. It may help eleuthria if he has to call the hosting provider and prove a routing issue. No one likes to admit they have a network problem and can sometimes be difficult to prove ;o)

Tracing route to uscentral.btcguild.com [69.147.241.114]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

~
  7   120 ms   101 ms   101 ms  cr2.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.153.6]
  8   121 ms   101 ms   101 ms  ggr2.attga.ip.att.net [12.122.81.97]
  9   122 ms   101 ms   101 ms  206.111.2.89.ptr.us.xo.net [206.111.2.89]
 10   123 ms    99 ms   102 ms  207.88.14.193.ptr.us.xo.net [207.88.14.193]
 11   122 ms   100 ms   103 ms  207.88.14.10.ptr.us.xo.net [207.88.14.10]
 12   124 ms   101 ms   100 ms  edge1.dal.ubiquityservers.com [207.88.185.110]
 13   122 ms   101 ms   101 ms  69.147.241.114.rdns.ubiquityservers.com [69.147.
241.114]

Central is good from North Midwest.

Luck is pretty simple at least how it's calculated here. Well let me clarify at least how I understand it ;o)

At difficulty 1379223 if we find a valid block in 1379223 shares we are on par with the average.

On the other hand if over 24 hours our block average rate is 1517145.3 shares we are -10% on luck and each and every miner can expect 10% less btc for that 24 hours. Of course each individual miner has their own hash fluctuations but roughly 10% less.

Same applies for if our 24 hour average is 1241300.7 each miner can expect 10% greater btc plus/minus their own hash fluctuations.

I love the word fluctuation. Is that weird? lol

Fair enough and possible. Why don't you all do a slashdot~esque~ self moderating system then. Worthless posts are simply worthless and everyone can stop bitching about trolls.

For the record I still stand by my original comments. Moderators moderate not advocate.

lol sorry I'm not sure I quite understand your comment. Are you calling me a troll because I questioned the ethical nature of your comments or am I misunderstanding somehow?

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=6667.msg259751#msg259751
http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=6667.msg259839#msg259839