[40+ PH] SlushPool (slushpool.com); World's First Mining Pool

[Kruncha]

I've noticed a lot of harsh behavior against new users, is bitcoin not about the distribution of new wealth, or is it just a lie?

K.

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[OlgaA524]

Hi Lucko, you saying that I can just start all my 3 workers under the same worker name?

I do and I had no problems... Well But I'm running with 2 account. One per computer... And using cgminer(better hashes) for GPU and GUIminer for CPU... But then you don't have such good control over the workers... If you see low hashes on page you need to look at computer to see if there is a problem...

And yes I noted that if a slow miner on his own worker send one share after more then 30 minutes all workers scores for all workers are reset to 0... And if that happens at the end of the round it is really bad...  You could get almost noting because of that... I can understand resetting the worker in question bat all. I don't get that...

EDIT: cgminer takes all GPUs and run them on one worker not the same as GUI that you need worker per GPU and CPU...

Thanks Lucko, I will try that

Currently I have 3 workers assigned to worker_1, worker_2 and worker_3, none of them goes to sleep for 30 minutes normally, sometimes they just go offline while I am away and cannot attend them but it is really rare, not even once a day.

The speed ratio for workers is like this (in 1 minute approximately)

worker_1: 10 shares  (~ 600 MHash)
worker_2: 1 share     (~ 60 MHash)
worker_3: 3 shares    (~180 MHash)

I will try to play with arrangements, see if one worker results in more stable outcome of the block.

[jerethdaminer]

no support needed but if the irc is also a meeting place for slushes army of miners to well converse i may lurk i like communitythings

[Lucko]

Hi Lucko, you saying that I can just start all my 3 workers under the same worker name?

I do and I had no problems... Well But I'm running with 2 account. One per computer... And using cgminer(better hashes) for GPU and GUIminer for CPU... But then you don't have such good control over the workers... If you see low hashes on page you need to look at computer to see if there is a problem...

And yes I noted that if a slow miner on his own worker send one share after more then 30 minutes all workers scores for all workers are reset to 0... And if that happens at the end of the round it is really bad...  You could get almost noting because of that... I can understand resetting the worker in question bat all. I don't get that...

EDIT: cgminer takes all GPUs and run them on one worker not the same as GUI that you need worker per GPU and CPU...

Thanks Lucko, I will try that

Currently I have 3 workers assigned to worker_1, worker_2 and worker_3, none of them goes to sleep for 30 minutes normally, sometimes they just go offline while I am away and cannot attend them but it is really rare, not even once a day.

The speed ratio for workers is like this (in 1 minute approximately)

worker_1: 10 shares  (~ 600 MHash)
worker_2: 1 share     (~ 60 MHash)
worker_3: 3 shares    (~180 MHash)

I will try to play with arrangements, see if one worker results in more stable outcome of the block.

All miners are fast enough so you shouldn't have my problems but 1 is slow enough to get big differences that in time evens out... I had one 1,2 MHash... That was slow... Sometimes it took hours...

[fc10a3]

Anybody else notice that the stale rate has dropped very low

worker 1 9209 shares accepted 9 stale
worker 2 9107 accepted 21 stale
worker 3 10840 accepted 26 stale.

this is great!

[VishwaJay]

AFAIK, it's been low for quite a while. I get about 0.5-1.0% stale. Your stale rate seems actually a little higher to me.

[SkyNet]

Is the pool down?

[Beans]

The past week I can't stay connected. cgminer is not switching to backup pools either, its all rejected shares the first time. Today it crashed cgminer on all 11 of my pc's. It just showed the program stopped responding message. I just gone done redirecting them to slush's pool a couple hours ago to see if things were working again. Guess not.. I was very impressed before, I had no issues since switching to stratum except for the past 10 days or so.

[Evan]

The past week I can't stay connected. cgminer is not switching to backup pools either, its all rejected shares the first time. Today it crashed cgminer on all 11 of my pc's. It just showed the program stopped responding message. I just gone done redirecting them to slush's pool a couple hours ago to see if things were working again. Guess not.. I was very impressed before, I had no issues since switching to stratum except for the past 10 days or so.

Update your CGminer

[Drizzle]

(Out of the newbie area at last!)

When Slush's pool was DDoS'ed I signed to BitMinter as backup. I noticed that the rate of namecoin mining there is about 10 times faster, which tempted me to continue mining there (not that it's a really good excuse, but psychologically it feels I'm getting more "stuff").

Anyone can explain why BitMinter can mine so much more namecoins?

[Epoch]

Anyone can explain why BitMinter can mine so much more namecoins?

All of bitminter's hashrate goes towards merged mining. Slush is only doing merged mining on his getwork nodes, which are currently only 10% of his pool (merged mining does not happen on his Stratum nodes), but profits are distributed to everyone (both getwork and stratum workers) in the pool.

This is why namecoin income on Slush is only 10% of what it would be "normally", and agrees with what you have observed.

[Lanidarc]

Anyone can explain why BitMinter can mine so much more namecoins?

All of bitminter's hashrate goes towards merged mining. Slush is only doing merged mining on his getwork nodes, which are currently only 10% of his pool (merged mining does not happen on his Stratum nodes), but profits are distributed to everyone (both getwork and stratum workers) in the pool.

This is why namecoin income on Slush is only 10% of what it would be "normally", and agrees with what you have observed.

I appreciate the extra income namecoin can provide, but for me pool stability is more important.

Well the getwork miners are actually closer to 4% of the pool, and some (many?) of us haven't bothered to fill in a NMC wallet.

[Epoch]

Well the getwork miners are actually closer to 4% of the pool, and some (many?) of us haven't bothered to fill in a NMC wallet.

If some don't have an NMC wallet, their share of NMC is distributed to the ones who do which would bump up the namecoin income percentage from 4%. Over the past few weeks the migration from getwork to stratum here continues to be fairly rapid.

[biz]

[...]Your stale rate seems actually a little higher to me.

So do I. Circa about 50% higher then before few days.

[HellDiverUK]

The past week I can't stay connected. cgminer is not switching to backup pools either, its all rejected shares the first time. Today it crashed cgminer on all 11 of my pc's. It just showed the program stopped responding message. I just gone done redirecting them to slush's pool a couple hours ago to see if things were working again. Guess not.. I was very impressed before, I had no issues since switching to stratum except for the past 10 days or so.

Update your CGminer

Or fix his internet.

I'm using an old CGMiner 2.10.3 on one machine and CGMiner 3.0 on the other.  No connection issues since the DDoS attack stopped.

[bigb159]

Pool is down for me. Back to Bitminter.

[laughingbear]

the website isnt loading, but my miner is connecting and hashing away

[dellnull]

Not just for you, slush is down for all

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/mining.bitcoin.cz

But I'm still accepting shares

[Lucko]

Not just for you, slush is down for all

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/mining.bitcoin.cz

But I'm still accepting shares

Yes but is the database UP or DOWN... Minings works but is it recorded?

[dellnull]

Don't know, but I really hope so....