[4+ EH] Slush Pool (slushpool.com); Overt AsicBoost; World First Mining Pool

[goatmonkey]

I don't know how Slush does it.    Every block looked at under a microscope.

Ridiculous, isn't it?

[Ogma]

If it is broke, Slush will fix it. But, software doesn't wear out, it works the same way under the same circumstances everytime.

Well, he hasn't lately at least not in a very timely manner.  If the software worked the same way every time we wouldn't have had two blocks go missing in the past two days that he needed to fix and very substandard rewards issued on several blocks that he hasn't fixed, so I can only assume you have no idea what you are talking about and indeed much more than just the software is smarter than you.

[Trongersoll]

If it is broke, Slush will fix it. But, software doesn't wear out, it works the same way under the same circumstances everytime.

Well, he hasn't lately at least not in a very timely manner.  If the software worked the same way every time we wouldn't have had two blocks go missing in the past two days that he needed to fix and very substandard rewards issued on several blocks that he hasn't fixed, so I can only assume you have no idea what you are talking about and indeed much more than just the software is smarter than you.

*snicker* or, perhaps i can recognise patterns that you can't. One should know better than to assume. I got my B.S. in Computer Science in 1979. When did you get yours?

[Paulizei]

Did anybody recognize that we've found another block with relativly high transaction fee?

Code:

18196 2013-05-25 02:06:02 1:57:45 17375137 583 0.00108329 none 237784  32.71150005 85 Bestätigungen ausstehend  

Is that the future (the way to earn Money with our rigs after the last block has been found)?

[silicont]

I'm a bit amazed how many miners complain about the Slush pool, but seemingly just can't bring themselves to jump ship.  I've moved to other pools, but I still check the Slush forum daily--it's like a TV drama.  Even with all the negative talk, I still want to believe the Slush payout method balances over time.  As do all the methods, right?  Multiple methods of payout sometimes make me think of the huge retail businesses pushing products/brands/quantities that you can get no where else, so you can't compare the value of the product one is purchasing.  I've spent hours reading the payouts and the pools, and am still uncertain as to which is best for me.

In the end, Slush seems unstable to me as a 'customer' on the outside looking in.  Yet, my payout graph was very flat (consistent) when I was mining Slush.  It's all over (but probably averages) since trying other pools....

[Paulizei]

I'm a bit amazed how many miners complain about the Slush pool, but seemingly just can't bring themselves to jump ship.  I've moved to other pools, but I still check the Slush forum daily--it's like a TV drama.  Even with all the negative talk, I still want to believe the Slush payout method balances over time.  As do all the methods, right?  Multiple methods of payout sometimes make me think of the huge retail businesses pushing products/brands/quantities that you can get no where else, so you can't compare the value of the product one is purchasing.  I've spent hours reading the payouts and the pools, and am still uncertain as to which is best for me.

In the end, Slush seems unstable to me as a 'customer' on the outside looking in.  Yet, my payout graph was very flat (consistent) when I was mining Slush.  It's all over (but probably averages) since trying other pools....

Totally agree!

More transparency could help, I guess.

[Mowcore]

Hashrate on Stratum interface (30 min average):   10445.839 Ghash/s (98%)
Approx. cluster performance (30 min average):   10596.366 Ghash/s

Is it me, or has the pool grown by about 700 GH/s in this last day. It was below 9800Gh/s 24 hrs ago.

It grew like it did the other day, it was 9000 yesterday but our luck must of attracted the asic zerg onto our pool. I noticed the last time that happened the pool had more long discovered blocks.

...that, or our pool miners asics are arriving!

[mrm0]

Am familiar with UNIX/Linux and variants but using Windows7 to mine.
Edited c:/windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts file, added list.  Can use ip1-9.slush.com now to specify IP.

# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
#   127.0.0.1       localhost

54.225.116.174      ip1.slush.com
54.225.117.74      ip2.slush.com
54.225.116.40      ip3.slush.com
54.215.3.101      ip4.slush.com
54.215.3.102      ip5.slush.com
54.225.116.221      ip6.slush.com
54.225.68.97      ip7.slush.com
54.215.3.103      ip8.slush.com
54.215.3.100      ip9.slush.com

Good job

May be good, may be not quite qood.
Local IP mapping where a DNS round-robin load balancing is involved is fine in a static setup.
IIRC Amazon instances can be dynamic, so a suggested mapping is basically a snapshot of 'now' and will not react to changes.

[PrintMule]

Can someone point to the ulimate pool config?
Where do you get that list of servers, how do you go about it in pool settings in cgminer and etc?
Did you figure it on your own, or there's a wiki or forum thread?

[rsbriggs]

Not complicated.  Just needing this information.

http://stratum.bitcoinz.com (or stratum2 or stratum3)
your worker name
your worker password

Appearing like so in config file under pools:

   {
      "url" : "http://stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333",
      "user" : "rsbriggs.worker1",
      "pass" : "*******"
   }

First time running cgminer, it will prompt for URL, user, and password.  Please be learning by trying first, then asking questions if not understanding something.  Answers not useful if asker not first understanding question they asking.

Nearly all else in normal cgminer config file will depending on your graphics card hardware, being GPU related and not relevant.  Defaults in config file should be sufficient to start.  Anything else ASIC related needing, see file in cgminer directory:  ASIC-README.txt

[PrintMule]

I'm on slush for a month now,  but I monitor my disconnets and problems on my own.

Someone suggested cgwatcher in irc channel. Looks like it's all i need.

[Lucko]

Come on Slush fix the pool. I did test move back to your pool with one miner and it is still jumping to backup pool. And there was no logging of shares for 16 minutes... If the block ended I would probably lost a lot. But they did all come back after 16 minutes so I don't know what was that... But it is not stable.

[desired_username]

Come on Slush fix the pool. I did test move back to your pool with one miner and it is still jumping to backup pool. And there was no logging of shares for 16 minutes... If the block ended I would probably lost a lot. But they did all come back after 16 minutes so I don't know what was that... But it is not stable.

I call BS, My miners haven't switched to backup pool for a long time now.

[Lucko]

Come on Slush fix the pool. I did test move back to your pool with one miner and it is still jumping to backup pool. And there was no logging of shares for 16 minutes... If the block ended I would probably lost a lot. But they did all come back after 16 minutes so I don't know what was that... But it is not stable.

I call BS, My miners haven't switched to backup pool for a long time now.

OK see this BS... Pool 4 is backup, 0 is stratum, 1 is stratum2, 2 is stratum3, 3 is api...

[2013-05-25 08:52:41] Stratum connection to pool 0 interrupted
 [2013-05-25 08:52:59] Pool 0 http://stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 not responding!
 [2013-05-25 08:52:59] Switching to pool 1 http://stratum2.bitcoin.cz:3333
 [2013-05-25 08:53:08] Accepted 47ce8bc6 Diff 3/1 GPU 0 pool 4
 [2013-05-25 08:53:12] Accepted 824e77f1 Diff 1/1 GPU 1 pool 4
 [2013-05-25 08:53:13] Accepted cc73a0f4 Diff 1/1 GPU 1 pool 4
 [2013-05-25 08:53:17] Accepted 4d8c8ac6 Diff 3/1 GPU 1 pool 4
 [2013-05-25 08:53:17] Accepted 263d88ca Diff 6/1 GPU 0 pool 4
 [2013-05-25 08:53:36] Accepted 9e80e2ab Diff 1/1 GPU 1 pool 1
 [2013-05-25 08:53:36] Stratum from pool 1 requested work restart
 [2013-05-25 08:53:37] Accepted 55196d38 Diff 3/1 GPU 1 pool 4
 [2013-05-25 08:53:40] Accepted 271b69f0 Diff 6/1 GPU 1 pool 1
 [2013-05-25 08:53:46] Accepted a9b9eff7 Diff 1/1 GPU 0 pool 1
 [2013-05-25 08:53:51] Accepted f4dee32e Diff 1/1 GPU 1 pool 1
 [2013-05-25 08:54:03] Accepted 34746583 Diff 4/1 GPU 1 pool 1
 [2013-05-25 08:54:05] Accepted 73329a99 Diff 2/1 GPU 0 pool 1
 [2013-05-25 08:54:07] Pool 0 http://stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 alive
 [2013-05-25 08:54:07] Switching to pool 0 http://stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333
 [2013-05-25 08:54:16] Accepted dd528800 Diff 1/1 GPU 1 pool 1
 [2013-05-25 08:54:26] Accepted 3591519b Diff 4/1 GPU 0 pool 0
 [2013-05-25 08:54:26] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart

And this is only one of the jumps...

EDIT: None of other miners(not on Slush) did jump so it was not connection problem. It is Slush problem and he admitted himself that he has it.

EDIT2:

Another... So that you will not say OK just one... I can paste 9 of them...

Sorry last time I copied the same one so this is fixed:

 [2013-05-25 08:40:11] Stratum connection to pool 0 interrupted
 [2013-05-25 08:40:29] Pool 0 http://stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 not responding!
 [2013-05-25 08:40:29] Switching to pool 2 http://stratum3.bitcoin.cz:3333
 [2013-05-25 08:40:38] Accepted 8394df6f Diff 1/1 GPU 0 pool 4
 [2013-05-25 08:40:41] Accepted 04f0a6ef Diff 51/1 GPU 0 pool 4
 [2013-05-25 08:40:47] Accepted 861881ef Diff 1/1 GPU 1 pool 4
 [2013-05-25 08:40:49] Accepted ae08d759 Diff 1/1 GPU 1 pool 4
 [2013-05-25 08:40:55] Accepted 0011639b Diff 3.77K/1 GPU 1 pool 4
 [2013-05-25 08:40:55] Stratum from pool 2 requested work restart
 [2013-05-25 08:40:58] Accepted 00da1f9c Diff 300/1 GPU 1 pool 4
 [2013-05-25 08:40:58] Accepted a9ec5044 Diff 1/1 GPU 0 pool 2
 [2013-05-25 08:40:59] Accepted 0b74b0ce Diff 22/1 GPU 0 pool 2
 [2013-05-25 08:41:06] Accepted 21163176 Diff 7/1 GPU 1 pool 2
 [2013-05-25 08:41:10] Accepted e3a9ff3b Diff 1/1 GPU 1 pool 2
 [2013-05-25 08:41:15] Accepted d38c69f0 Diff 1/1 GPU 0 pool 2
 [2013-05-25 08:41:25] Accepted 76fbe2a3 Diff 2/1 GPU 1 pool 2
 [2013-05-25 08:41:29] Accepted f7586be7 Diff 1/1 GPU 1 pool 2
 [2013-05-25 08:42:07] Pool 0 http://stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333 alive
 [2013-05-25 08:42:07] Switching to pool 0 http://stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333

[rsbriggs]

I'm on slush for a month now,  but I monitor my disconnets and problems on my own.

Someone suggested cgwatcher in irc channel. Looks like it's all i need.

Also nice tool for watching Slush pool is MineMinder.  Not cgminer related, just watches Slush api.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1976.msg2170183#msg2170183

[laughingbear]

*snicker* or, perhaps i can recognise patterns that you can't. One should know better than to assume. I got my B.S. in Computer Science in 1979. When did you get yours?

So you are saying that you don't know anything at all about today's computer hardware or software.  I got my B.S. 13 years ago, and now children in high school computer class are more advanced. LoL 1979.... the first ever spreadsheet program came out.... C++ was only being developed.  yes, you should talk down to others here who say there might be a problem, Oh master of UNIX.

[meisenst]

So you are saying that you don't know anything at all about today's computer hardware or software.  I got my B.S. 13 years ago, and now children in high school computer class are more advanced. LoL 1979.... the first ever spreadsheet program came out.... C++ was only being developed.  yes, you should talk down to others here who say there might be a problem, Oh master of UNIX.

Yep, kids are more advanced, and learning a bit less every day.

The fundamentals of proper programming, and the statement that software will behave the same way in the same static environment every time, haven't changed since he got his degree (nor since you got yours).

[Psyrick]

Not complicated.  Just needing this information.

http://stratum.bitcoinz.com (or stratum2 or stratum3)
your worker name
your worker password

Appearing like so in config file under pools:

   {
      "url" : "http://stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333",
      "user" : "rsbriggs.worker1",
      "pass" : "*******"
   }

First time running cgminer, it will prompt for URL, user, and password.  Please be learning by trying first, then asking questions if not understanding something.  Answers not useful if asker not first understanding question they asking.

Nearly all else in normal cgminer config file will depending on your graphics card hardware, being GPU related and not relevant.  Defaults in config file should be sufficient to start.  Anything else ASIC related needing, see file in cgminer directory:  ASIC-README.txt

I love your accent

[Lucko]

Again:

 [2013-05-25 18:13:40] Accepted 695549df Diff 2/1 GPU 1 pool 0
 [2013-05-25 18:13:40] Accepted a1205f1c Diff 1/1 GPU 1 pool 0
 [2013-05-25 18:15:10] Stratum connection to pool 0 interrupted
 [2013-05-25 18:15:15] New block detected on network before longpoll
 [2013-05-25 18:15:16] Accepted d0ed6610 Diff 1/1 GPU 1 pool 0
 [2013-05-25 18:15:16] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
 [2013-05-25 18:15:17] Accepted f68db776 Diff 1/1 GPU 0 pool 4
 [2013-05-25 18:15:26] Accepted a1e7ba86 Diff 1/1 GPU 1 pool 0
 [2013-05-25 18:15:28] Accepted 68335184 Diff 2/1 GPU 1 pool 0

I think it is time to end test run...

[goatmonkey]

k bye