[0 GH/s 0% fee SMPPS] ArsBitcoin mining pool!

[RandyFolds]

Hello,

I haven't had a lot of time for the pool lately.  I just noticed we found a block on Server 2 that wasn't accounted for, for some reason.

It is this block: http://blockexplorer.com/b/144478

To account for it, I am now adding 50 BTC to the confirmed BTC buffer, so it will go from 14300 to 14350, and the total buffer will go from -22 to 28.

I can look into it in more detail later. It may have had to do with some of the issues server 2 has had with pushpool.

I had something go awry yesterday on server 2 and was running 30+% stales...didn't have the console open and didn't check the log. I imagine that was it...

[Big Time Coin]

Looks like something is finally going right with the stales, BT.  I was up to 2% at one point, but for today it has dropped down to a record low:

Shares This Day: 49470
Stales This Day: 291 (0.5848%)

so that's great!  I am using server2, CGMiner, Phoenix

[Hotdog453]

I'm guessing server2 may have gone down for a chunk of time? I had moved over half of my cards to it, only to see a number of them had failed over to the main address.

[m3sSh3aD]

I'm guessing server2 may have gone down for a chunk of time? I had moved over half of my cards to it, only to see a number of them had failed over to the main address.

Nothing wrong my side, no problems what so ever and stales coming down to .2 or less

[Hotdog453]

Fair enough, I can chalk it up to being something odd on my end. I have sort of a unique network setup, so I'll take the blame.

Seems to be working fine for me now, since then

[BurningToad]

Fair enough, I can chalk it up to being something odd on my end. I have sort of a unique network setup, so I'll take the blame.

Seems to be working fine for me now, since then

Server2 did have an issue and underwent a quick restart which probably caused what you saw.

[BurningToad]

Ok, so we found 3 blocks in a row last night and it caused issues with my awesome (bad) block accounting.  I've fixed it now, but some of the share counts for our current rounds are a bit off, and the share counts for one of those 3 blocks is wrong. 

As part of the PPLNS stuff, I had some fixes going in for issues like this, but honestly, I just haven't worked on the pool much lately. 

The actual number of blocks found, and current confirmations, etc is all fixed now.  Thankfully with SMPPS the round length and all that doesn't really matter.  All user's shares are counted differently from actually finding blocks, so everything is ok there. 

[johnb210]

Just joined the pool last night, coming from a proportional pool, I'm loving the pps!

But I seem to have a bug with the payments. It is reporting an Earned PPS after about 15 hrs of 0.18BTC, which seems right, but the paid PPS has been stuck on about 0.042BTC for about 9 hours, despite the pool solving several blocks in that time frame. My payout percentage has been listed around 0.04%, which also seems about right. Right below this my "next payout amount" is listed as about 0.016BTC.

Shouldn't I have received a small payment with each of the recent blocks being found, or am I just misunderstanding how the SMPPS system works?

johnb210

[m3sSh3aD]

Just joined the pool last night, coming from a proportional pool, I'm loving the pps!

But I seem to have a bug with the payments. It is reporting an Earned PPS after about 15 hrs of 0.18BTC, which seems right, but the paid PPS has been stuck on about 0.042BTC for about 9 hours, despite the pool solving several blocks in that time frame. My payout percentage has been listed around 0.04%, which also seems about right. Right below this my "next payout amount" is listed as about 0.016BTC.

Shouldn't I have received a small payment with each of the recent blocks being found, or am I just misunderstanding how the SMPPS system works?

johnb210

SMPPS buffer is near and in the - figure, I have 1.5 coins surrently owed to me but its ok, it all gets there in the end. I wouldnt worry as i seem to get payed better and get ALOT less stales in the end. Server 2 seems to be better for stales also 220(240) comfirmations are needed before payment is official also

[twmz]

Just joined the pool last night, coming from a proportional pool, I'm loving the pps!

But I seem to have a bug with the payments. It is reporting an Earned PPS after about 15 hrs of 0.18BTC, which seems right, but the paid PPS has been stuck on about 0.042BTC for about 9 hours, despite the pool solving several blocks in that time frame. My payout percentage has been listed around 0.04%, which also seems about right. Right below this my "next payout amount" is listed as about 0.016BTC.

Shouldn't I have received a small payment with each of the recent blocks being found, or am I just misunderstanding how the SMPPS system works?

johnb210

Your Earned PPS turns into Paid PPS when blocks reach 120 confirmations (according to your "next payout amount"), not when they are initially found.  Not sure if that is for sure what is going on for you, but wanted to clarify expectations.

[johnb210]

Ah, that explains it, I was looking for coins to be paid when blocks were found, but it makes a lot more sense that they are paid when they are confirmed. I guess it just worked out that a few blocks were confirmed at just about the same time new blocks were found right when I started, and I saw the payments made and jumped to the wrong conclusion. Thanks for the info.

[m3sSh3aD]

Buffer just sky rocketed 

[RandyFolds]

Buffer just sky rocketed 

I know, right?

[Hotdog453]

Buffer skyrockets, followed by an 8 million block, followed by a 200k, and a 1 million block. It's an emotional roller coaster folks, someone hold me.

[BurningToad]

Been having some issues with server2 this morning.  Hopefully things are fixed now.

I believe these issues caused our share count for our last server 2 block (145,626) to be wrong, which affected our current round count as well.  However, this is only the shares per round number.  User shares/rewards are calculated completely separately and they are fine.

[flower1024]

hi,

do you have any plans for merged mining?

if you want to discuss it i opened a thread a here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=44546.0

[BkkCoins]

Seems like something is wrong with the server at the moment. I've had about a half hour of constant idles & disconnects. Also my stats page was down and couldn't login. I guess I'll switch to btcGuild until this has stabilized...

[Luke-Jr]

Seems like something is wrong with the server at the moment. I've had about a half hour of constant idles & disconnects. Also my stats page was down and couldn't login. I guess I'll switch to btcGuild until this has stabilized...

Eligius is also (the original) SMPPS, which is what Ars uses for rewards, FWIW.

[BkkCoins]

Seems like something is wrong with the server at the moment. I've had about a half hour of constant idles & disconnects. Also my stats page was down and couldn't login. I guess I'll switch to btcGuild until this has stabilized...

Eligius is also (the original) SMPPS, which is what Ars uses for rewards, FWIW.

Eligius was actually the first pool I started with but it constantly gave me poor earnings. Like little more than half expected for days on end. SO I moved to btcGuild, which was much better but also varied a lot. After a couple weeks I decided to try ArsBitcoin to see if I could get more steady earnings. ArsBitcoin has been really steady and very close to expected for the last 8-9 days but seems to be having a problem ATM. I'll be back when it's ready to accept my shares consistently. Hopefully whatever caused that will be fixed up soon.

[Luke-Jr]

Seems like something is wrong with the server at the moment. I've had about a half hour of constant idles & disconnects. Also my stats page was down and couldn't login. I guess I'll switch to btcGuild until this has stabilized...

Eligius is also (the original) SMPPS, which is what Ars uses for rewards, FWIW.

Eligius was actually the first pool I started with but it constantly gave me poor earnings. Like little more than half expected for days on end.

Back when it was proportional, there might have been variation like this, but not with SMPPS

Hint: To have any kind of meaningful statistics on non-PPS pools, you need to average it over a few months at least.