[ANN][The Original Multipool - Scrypt/SHA256/Scrypt-N/X11] multipool.us

[Behemot]

Thanks

Now I just need to get dedicated miner No.1 working again, I have it in unconditioned server room and most likely it's so hot in there it froze. It does not talk to me over TeamViewer and I don't have immediate physical access…

[Armchair Miner]

Maybe WDC needs a higher "adjustment factor" for orphans.. until they change the software for longer block time as per their recent PDF.

[flound1129]

Maybe WDC needs a higher "adjustment factor" for orphans.. until they change the software for longer block time as per their recent PDF.

i could do that, but even at 40% it would still be the most profitable coin right now...

My miners have been smooth sailing.  Anyone seeing stratum disconnects?

[Armchair Miner]

Yeah, WDC seems hot, right now. Regardless, all miners want is the most profit per unit time. It really doesn't matter to miners how many orphans there are. As long as the payout per unit time (after orphans) is highest, that is what we want to mine. Now if the energy is not used efficiently, that is a whole other story.

Otherwise, I am not seeing any problems with pool1.us.multipool.com:7777 on this end at all.

[B.T.Coin]

Can one miner log into both the US end EU server at the same time?
I have set a few miners to use both the US and EU servers with "load-balance" on in cgminer.
They do submit shares to both pools but I see stratum disconnects often so I'm wondering if this is because I connect to both servers at the same time.

Hi Flound,

Can you comment on my question if it's a good idea to run both the US and EU server in a load-balanced setting in cgminer.

[flound1129]

Can one miner log into both the US end EU server at the same time?
I have set a few miners to use both the US and EU servers with "load-balance" on in cgminer.
They do submit shares to both pools but I see stratum disconnects often so I'm wondering if this is because I connect to both servers at the same time.

Hi Flound,

Can you comment on my question if it's a good idea to run both the US and EU server in a load-balanced setting in cgminer.

Why, are you in the middle of the Atlantic ocean?  

I can't really answer that, my gut says it would be better to set one as primary and the other as secondary, but I really don't know.  I've never run load balanced pools in cgminer.

But you should definitely at least set the US pool as a backup if you're using the EU pool, as the EU pool is currently only a single server.

[bandjhughes]

Still having "no joy" when trying to connect on the getwork connection http://pool.multipool.in:17777.  Is this port working for anybody?

Thanks

[B.T.Coin]

Can one miner log into both the US end EU server at the same time?
I have set a few miners to use both the US and EU servers with "load-balance" on in cgminer.
They do submit shares to both pools but I see stratum disconnects often so I'm wondering if this is because I connect to both servers at the same time.

Hi Flound,

Can you comment on my question if it's a good idea to run both the US and EU server in a load-balanced setting in cgminer.

Why, are you in the middle of the Atlantic ocean?  

I can't really answer that, my gut says it would be better to set one as primary and the other as secondary, but I really don't know.  I've never run load balanced pools in cgminer.

But you should definitely at least set the US pool as a backup if you're using the EU pool, as the EU pool is currently only a single server.

No, I'm not in the ocean I'm in the Netherlands which is near the ocean
When you just had the US server and I set your pool as primary, there were often connection problems and it took a while until cgminer switched to the backup. I even had cgwatcher installed to restart cgminer when there were no accepted shares for 1 minute (which happened quite a lot). So a lot of time was wasted with my miners sitting idle
Then I started to run a load-balanced configuration with a LTC pool and cgminer tries to split the load evenly but sends more work to the other pool if it doesn't get new work from the first one, so my hardware always runs at full power.
Since I prefer the multipool concept I thought to set your US and EU server and a third LTC pool and run it load-balanced so your pool gets 66% of my hashing power. So that's where my question comes from.

Even though you haven't run load-balancing yourself, can you let me know if I can log into both the US and EU server at the same time with the same miner and if both the work counts?

[B.T.Coin]

Getting TONS of orphans on WDC..  Lots of other people must be mining it...

Have a look at the pool stats for WDC. The SAME block gets submitted by the same finder multiple times (but strangely enough minutes apart).
Only the first find counts and the rest get orphaned.

[paulm]

Getting TONS of orphans on WDC..  Lots of other people must be mining it...

Wow! no kidding, that's gonna drop the profitability quite a bit.

[flound1129]

Getting TONS of orphans on WDC..  Lots of other people must be mining it...

Have a look at the pool stats for WDC. The SAME block gets submitted by the same finder multiple times (but strangely enough minutes apart).
Only the first find counts and the rest get orphaned.

No, that's actually a display bug that I haven't gotten around to fixing.

Those orphans are actually valid transactions marked 'orphan'.

[B.T.Coin]

Getting TONS of orphans on WDC..  Lots of other people must be mining it...

Have a look at the pool stats for WDC. The SAME block gets submitted by the same finder multiple times (but strangely enough minutes apart).
Only the first find counts and the rest get orphaned.

No, that's actually a display bug that I haven't gotten around to fixing.

Those orphans are actually valid transactions marked 'orphan'.

OK, no problem. You will probably have a lot of cleaning up to do after all the expansions you did over the last days
Also on WDC, the 'time since last found block' often shows 9 minutes. Is this also a display bug? Because the pool finds a few WDC blocks a minute.

[captainfuture]

yeah and that multipool connections 0 makes not a good feeling 

[TheFuneral]

how can I have unconfirmed coins, but 0 round shares?

[flound1129]

yeah and that multipool connections 0 makes not a good feeling 

Oh, I need to fix that..  It's not accurate anymore with the new architecture.

[flound1129]

how can I have unconfirmed coins, but 0 round shares?

Round shares are how many shares you have inside the current round, they have nothing to do with blocks that have already been found.

But to answer your question, it's because your shares have expired, but the blocks that were found while you were mining haven't yet been confirmed.  NVC takes 520 confirmations to confirm a block (~3 days) and FTC takes 120 (~3.5-12 hours depending on network hashrate).

The others should be confirmed fairly quickly.

[paulm]

WDC profitability has dropped to 1.44, DGC is at 2.1 yet the multiport is still mining WDC (or at least that's what is indicated).

[paulm]

WDC profitability has dropped to 1.44, DGC is at 2.1 yet the multiport is still mining WDC (or at least that's what is indicated).

Actually WDC currently has the second lowest profitability, at least there are much fewer orphans.

[flound1129]

We're on DGC now..

[dyce]

NVC is highest now
when does multiport switch?