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[Inaba]

Without knowing what time zone is shown there, it's hard to say.  There's a number of reasons that can happen though.

[dave3]

Sorry, It's GMT+8.

[Inaba]

This is the closest candidate block I can find: http://blockchain.info/block-height/221984

What version of CG or BFG miner are you using?  I'm not sure if it's been fixed in newer versions, but at one point at least cgminer I believe was reporting erroneous maximum share values.  I'm not sure that's what's happened here though... another possibility is you did find a winning share to an older block and it was invalidated after sending it to the network/bitcoind.  Given that a block was indeed found right around that time, this sounds like the most likely explanation.

[dave3]

I'm still running cgminer 2.10.2.

Thanks for checking.

[Epoch]

Over the past few months I've been noticing the following (here, Pool 1 is Eclipse and is the primary pool, Pool 0 is bitminter and is the backup):

Code:

2013-02-22 11:22:57] BFL0: Abandoning stale search to restart
2013-02-22 11:23:13] Pool 1 failed getblocktemplate request; falling back to getwork protocol
2013-02-22 11:23:20] LONGPOLL from pool 1 caught up to new block
2013-02-22 11:23:34] Pool 1 http://us2.eclipsemc.com:8337 not responding!
2013-02-22 11:23:34] Switching to http://mint.bitminter.com:8332
2013-02-22 11:23:46] Accepted 586d6dad Diff 2/1 BFL 0 pool 0
2013-02-22 11:23:46] Accepted ad1f45ab Diff 1/1 BFL 0 pool 0

I often get the 'failed getblocktemplate request' message, either after a longpoll or sometimes just 'randomly'. The miner switches to the backup pool for a while, then sees that Eclipse is alive again and switches back to it. Not a big deal, but I'm wondering if it is normal to get this message. And, what could cause it?

I am using bfgminer 2.10.5 (I've had this problem on earlier versions as well), and I use the following switches:

Code:

--disable-gpu --no-submit-stale --no-stratum

Am I using the correct Eclipse server(us2.eclipsemc.com) and port (8337)? I run with  Stratum disabled; enabling it gives me other problems which is a tale for another time ...

[ChipGeek]

I'm getting a lot of "communication failures" with us1 and us2 using 2.10.4 cgminer.  It's been going on for a few days.  I've switched to another pool until this gets fixed.

[Inaba]

Us1 and US2 are the same server at the moment.  Try US3.

I have a new US1 built and I will be dropping it in the DC as soon as I can get through the snow to downtown.

Epoch - I am looking into your issue.

[Askit2]

Hey Inaba,
Since Stratum has a new mining.resume function I was wondering. Do you know how difficult it would be to add it?
It would save shares on disconnects so that would be a plus.
Thank You for all your hard work!

[Luke-Jr]

Hey Inaba,
Since Stratum has a new mining.resume function I was wondering. Do you know how difficult it would be to add it?
It would save shares on disconnects so that would be a plus.
Thank You for all your hard work!

slush, Eleu, conman, and I discussed mining.resume on IRC the other day, and decided to replace it with a different resume mechanism.
I'll work on an Eloipool implementation after getting through the BFL SC support in BFGMiner, and sometime after that a BFGMiner implementation to use it.

[Inaba]

Epoc:  Right now, US1 and US2 are pointing to the same server, there's about 11k LPs going out at once when a new block hits.  Try switching to US3 and see if that solves the problem.  I will be dropping a new US1 in the DC probably Monday (maybe this weekend), and then moving traffic back to it, which should alleviate the US2 issue.

[Epoch]

Epoc:  Right now, US1 and US2 are pointing to the same server, there's about 11k LPs going out at once when a new block hits.  Try switching to US3 and see if that solves the problem.  I will be dropping a new US1 in the DC probably Monday (maybe this weekend), and then moving traffic back to it, which should alleviate the US2 issue.

I'll give US3 a shot, thanks.

[BR0KK]

I think the calculation of power consumption in the worker Page is Not working.
I added power to One of my workers but it won't calculate this.

I'll post a pic later to show what I see here.

Or is it that every worker needs to have sometging placed in that field?

[Inaba]

I just tried it, it seems to be working fine.  You have to have data in the watt field and the KW/h field.  If either of them are 0, then by default you won't get an accurate reading, since without knowing those two variables, it can't calculate your power cost.

[Inaba]

The new US1 is installed and I just switched the DNS over.  Please report any errors with US1, but it's the fastest US based server. US2 should not have any more LP problems either.  With all 3 US servers operational now, I am going to start looking at getting the Euro server back up and then the PACRIM server.  Long time coming, but it's coming.

[crazydownloaded]

Hello,
On the Google Auth page, the QR code token is broken. Sill able to use the written token, but not fine to type!

[Inaba]

I will get the QR code issue resolved here ASAP.  Thanks for pointing it out!  I wonder how long it's been broken and no one has mentioned it!

[mufa23]

Hey Josh,

This had probably been asked before, but will EMC be ready for the wave of ASIC? I assume you'd get a ton more traffic with all the shares being submitted. Was just hoping once I get my new tech, I'd have a pool I could start mining with.

[-ck]

Hey Josh,

This had probably been asked before, but will EMC be ready for the wave of ASIC? I assume you'd get a ton more traffic with all the shares being submitted. Was just hoping once I get my new tech, I'd have a pool I could start mining with.

Pretty much every pool except for deepbit is ready for ASIC hashrates.

[Inaba]

Yes, EMC was the first ASIC ready pool.

[mufa23]

Hey Josh,

This had probably been asked before, but will EMC be ready for the wave of ASIC? I assume you'd get a ton more traffic with all the shares being submitted. Was just hoping once I get my new tech, I'd have a pool I could start mining with.

Pretty much every pool except for deepbit is ready for ASIC hashrates.

Yes, EMC was the first ASIC ready pool.

Awesome, thanks for the good news!