I've suspected this is the issues causing the higher than normal stale rate across the board.  I'm getting 2-4% stales on every site, and I've noticed that the vast majority come when the proxy switches pools.  I think it is more pronounced for bitclockers because of his anti-hopping tactics, which I assume are to blame for the connection issues I was complaining about earlier.  So, when I would lag out, move away then move back, the shares being submitted were probably for the last pool

If you spend your life only worrying about squeezing every ounce of profit, you'll end up like this guy:


I assume everyone gets the reference

Exactly, a little altruism here and there never hurt anybody, and we can probably end their block from hell, which will make us look really good.  You want to turn the negative attitudes from miners, this is the way to do it.  I guarantee you they will all appreciate it.  I'm not saying stop mining at profitable pools, but as a backup here and there, help a brother out

hurrah for self quoting..  I just did actually, set them up as my backup.  It would be really nice for others to do so as well.  If enough of us jump in there it would be a huge help, and given they are considering changing their payout structure to keep us out, maybe it would discourage them from doing so

I actually feel really bad for them...  we should all jump in there and get them past this horrible hump.  It'll be good PR

Just because I always get a little tickle when I see 420 anywhere...

Sounds like a fix would be to allow multiple workers per site in the config

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I did, 3/4 ping best for me as well, and I have tried both, and neither works for more than a couple minutes at a time before it lags out.  I'm not sure why, because watching the log it seems the requests are coming pretty well, but there is the occasional error, and bitHopper moves on

nice, 3 pools hoppable right now.  Anyone able to get bitclockers to work with any regularity?  I keep getting lagged out

I'm seeing the exact opposite behavior, my english stats are stuck at 21,832, and my german stats are more updated at 32,493

*cough*requires invitation*cough*

Check your config...  I'm betting you have http:// before the mine_address of a pool

I just saw the drop in shares for slush, do decided to jump in and enabled them right quick:
bitcoin.cz   51771
 3.06%            mine   
156 / 145
92.95   

92.95% stales...  WTF

Probably best, it was a 3 second fix on my side too, but it won't work for everyone else.  Either way, it is a good idea to have it fixed in the software on our side as well, because a lot of operators aren't as open to making changes as you are

c00w:
I modified the config to use his json api, but I found a small issue in your parsing code

        if server['api_method'] == 'json':
            info = json.loads(response)
            for value in server['api_key'].split(','):
                info = info[value]
            if 'api_strip' in server:
                strip_str = server['api_strip'][1:-1]
                info = info.replace(strip_str,'')
            round_shares = int(info)
            self.UpdateShares(args,round_shares)


I modified it to look for api_strip, and remove the offending character.  In this case, he has a ',' in the result.

Edit: nevermind, I added it as an issue on github

Valid shares is exactly what we need, thanks again I'll update and save you a little bandwidth

c00w: you latest update == awesomeness.  I had just forked your code to add the ability to enable / disable (including the info option) from the web on the fly, and you implementation is far superior than what I was going to do.  You, sir, kick ass.  Sending a btc your way

Awesome, thanks.  What is it at now?

It means their api hasn't updated in the last half hour