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

[eleuthria]

Funny I've been checking every hr & never saw said notice

This IS BAD up & down for at least 3 days is BS
playing with tor instead of TCB
I've been getting http timeouts for 2 wks but only on one machine and yes it's using api2 address

I was trying to check namecoin stuff and have been waiting for funds to build & process

at this point I've gotten more straight pay out from deepbit in the last 24hrs
than slushes proportional pay scheme for every day last week

putting it mildly I"m not a happy camper

And people wonder why slush nearly shut the pool down for good... bitching about known issues doesn't exactly help them get solved faster.  All you're doing is adding more stress to the admin who does significantly more work than miners and at these prices probably doesn't make much more than them.

[disclaimer201]

Yep, calm down, it's no big deal. We can just use the back-up pool for the time being. And honestly, not that two days of payout will make you any richer unless you had 10+ Ghash pointed at the pool, in which case you could have also gone solo. Peace.

[sd]

And people wonder why slush nearly shut the pool down for good... bitching about known issues doesn't exactly help them get solved faster.  All you're doing is adding more stress to the admin who does significantly more work than miners and at these prices probably doesn't make much more than them.

Exactly this. You don't like this pool rent your own dedicated server and setup your own one. You try making it profitable and stable with the current BitCoin price.

Or solo mine. Whatever you do just don't make the deepbit problem any worse..

[DeathAndTaxes]

Or solo mine. Whatever you do just don't make the deepbit problem any worse..

Yes that big old meanie deepbit giving you more less bitcoin for your hashing power it has to be stopped.

FYP

[bulanula]

Or solo mine. Whatever you do just don't make the deepbit problem any worse..

Yes that big old meanie deepbit giving you more less bitcoin for your hashing power it has to be stopped.

FYP

Certainly gives you more than the slush pool does when it actually runs and that includes the so called namcoin bonus added in.

OK I do not doubt your observations but can you please attempt to explain why or at least theorize why this is happening etc. !?

[bz]

Anything new to report?  I'm hoping things can get back to normal soon but as of now am still unable to mine using slush's pool.

[bulanula]

Anything new to report?  I'm hoping things can get back to normal soon but as of now am still unable to mine using slush's pool.

Same here. No payouts

[Dawscaus]

cant mine at all
poclbm_py2exe_20110709 keeps saying the following over and over

api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC 0 2

api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC 1 2

api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC 2 2

api2.bitcoin.cz:8332No more backup pools left. Using primary and starting over.

Can someone tell me what is going on?

[naypalm]

cant mine at all
poclbm_py2exe_20110709 keeps saying the following over and over

api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC 0 2

api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC 1 2

api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC 2 2

api2.bitcoin.cz:8332No more backup pools left. Using primary and starting over.

Can someone tell me what is going on?

Hi Dawscaus, That message you are getting is called an error. The Pool is down for the moment, so familiarize yourself with another pool for the time being. Good Luck!

[DeathAndTaxes]

Hi Dawscaus, That message you are getting is called an error. The Pool is down for the moment, so familiarize yourself with another pool for the time being. Good Luck!

Or even better setup cgminer with a backup pool (or 4).  When slush pool comes back up my miners will switch back to him automatically.

[Idzy]

slush seems to be back up. yay

[bulanula]

slush seems to be back up. yay

Payments are still not flowing though. Need to get out my BTC and NMC to pay bills before I can restart mining.

Is it just me or are payments not getting confirmed either  

[slush]

OK, I reinstalled database machine to different distro, different kernel, different version of database. And it is still crashing. It's 100% bug in VMWare ESX, which is pretty strange. I'm lost.

[FoxMURDER]

what kind of bug ?
maybe switch to plain linux and use kvm?

[slush]

FoxMURDER: Database fails in access to disk sectors, although disk looks good. It happen only under high load so I'm expecting bug in vmware disk abstraction layer.

I'm going to remove virtualization completely and try to run pool on bare metal. However it will take some time to install and setup everything.

[jonathan]

maybe switch to plain linux and use kvm?

+1

debian + kvm have always been good to me. Sorry to hear about these woes slush. Hope you can get fixed up, whether running on the metal or not.

[drlatino999]

OK, I reinstalled database machine to different distro, different kernel, different version of database. And it is still crashing. It's 100% bug in VMWare ESX, which is pretty strange. I'm lost.

ESX 4.1 or 5? I've avoided committing to 5 until I can guarantee all of my systems will run stable on it.

[slush]

ESX 5. It's my first (and painful) experience with VMWare (except vmware player few years ago).

And now even my main Internet connection fall down (it's second time in last 5 years). I'm working on mobile connection, making reinstall even harder. omg.

[jproulx]

ESX 5. It's my first (and painful) experience with VMWare (except vmware player few years ago).

And now even my main Internet connection fall down (it's second time in last 5 years). I'm working on mobile connection, making reinstall even harder. omg.

Good luck, people will bitch but sometimes shit happens...

[jonathan]

... painful experience with VMWare... Internet connection down... working on mobile... omg...

it will make a good story for the grandkids in a few decades.