POLL: How much stales do you get?

[organofcorti]

0.5 to 1% Deepbit, 2% Eligius US. I should have the worst here being in Australasia, but these results seems par. Except for the bloke with his own pool.

[Zibbo]

I've been getting low stales at BTCGuild.  Since I have been mining there, I see about .02%. to .03%.  I have took a snip to prove:

https://i.imgur.com/InIW6.jpg

1804/71600=0.0252 which is 2.5%, not 0.025%

[Chucksta]

If you're consistently getting more than 2% you should move to another pool.

I've got miners on Deepbit and BTC Guild, with no more than 1.5% stale shares (usually less than 1%)

6x 5870 overclocked to 420/440

2x 6950 (not overclocked - PC used for other things)

[phelix]

good thing you asked.

over the last maybe 10hours I got:

btc guild 5.6%  (ping 184ms)
deepbit 6.5%   (ping 31ms)
slush 15% !!!    (ping 45ms)

I am using phoenix and had the option -q 3 set. Will try with default queuesize now.

(located in germany)

[DeiBellum]

I am having an issue of 87.6% stales....

My set up is a Quadro FX770M in a Dell Precision Laptop. Diablo miner using FASTLOOP AGGRESSION=6 BFI_INT w 64

any ideas on how I can improve this down to the numbers that everyone else is achieving, or is it just the fact of having a crappy card for mining?

[LegitBit]

The Quatro's are tuned for 2D acceleration, not sure about cuda performance.

Could be your network connection though.

[DeiBellum]

I am averaging about 6.32 MHash/s so while it is definitely nothing spectacular it is better than trying to churn it out with my CPU.

[LegitBit]

I am averaging about 6.32 MHash/s so while it is definitely nothing spectacular it is better than trying to churn it out with my CPU.

Barely, my 2GHz Core2Duo Laptop gets 4MHs on cpu alone.

Maybe try using ufasofts miner as well as whatever you use for the GPU to harness both? http://forum.bitcoin.org/?topic=3486.0

May boost your speeds.

To use with eligius pool make a shortcut to run this:  bitcoin-miner.exe -a 5 -o http://mining.eligius.st:8337 -u YourBitcoinAddress -p x

[DeiBellum]

Well I have an AMD 6870 coming in on wed, so I can just keep putting up with this for now until that card arrives.

[anodyne]

Been back to slush for a while, and since I last started GUIMiner it seems I have had 197 stales out of some 35900 shares...

Seems I'm doing quite well. Can't say I have any extraordinary settings, but maybe it helps being on 100Mbit line connected to a city fiber network that was built only a couple of years ago...

[phelix]

good thing you asked.

over the last maybe 10hours I got:

btc guild 5.6%  (ping 184ms)
deepbit 6.5%   (ping 31ms)
slush 15% !!!    (ping 45ms)

I am using phoenix and had the option -q 3 set. Will try with default queuesize now.

(located in germany)

the -q option did not make any difference.

what else influences the amount of stale shares? WLAN connection? driver/sdk? miner?

I am running phoenix on 10.12/2.1 via WLAN.

--- edit ---
I read that the slower your workers hashrate relative to the network the more stales you get. I ran three workers on each card to be failsafe - that does not seem to be a good idea...

[ZombieDeity]

I'm at about 0.7% stale.

BTCGuild, 3x6990 (no OC), 2 GH/s, Phoenix, WLAN, long polling

[_s3v3n_]

Shares (Stale%)
-------  ------
35616  (0.49%)
35943  (0.47%)
36462  (0.46%)

[Nirth]

I just noticed I have 19 stales of 90 accepted at bitcoins.lc with GUIminer. How do I activate long polling if it is supported? Anything else I could do like add some flags.