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[nick5429]

I'm just wondering why I have been getting 1.4btc every week (for about 2 or 3 weeks now) and now this week, come monday, I'll only have about .3btc gained. Did something go horribly wrong?

In short: yes, but I'd be shocked if it's *quite* as bad as your comment indicates.  bitcoinpool started fabricating their stats, which totally screwed up the hopping for several days, causing us to mine a *lot* at bad times on that pool.  There was also a difficulty increase early last week that contributed some to this.

They've been kicked out; I do apologize for the trouble this caused everyone, but there wasn't really anything I could do to counter this =/


Now for some good news....
*drumroll*
bitcoins-lc shares have been processed!  This week's payment has been sent out!

I also added eligius back in with a fixed utility of 1.0 to serve as a backup for when hopping on all the proportional pools has a low expected payout.  This should (help) prevent any future efficiency from going below 1.


Multiclone's hashrate has been wayyyyyy down this week, probably as a result of the bitcoinpool thing.  It's resolved now, so let's get this party started again!

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[Zoomer]

Deebit being gone probably contributed a portion to that. It was the most efficient pool.

I still see solo shares after some eligus shares; is that a glitch and should go away?

Solo
138055   Tue Jul 26 02:23:25 2011   25   2.500   pending

[nick5429]

Deebit being gone probably contributed a portion to that. It was the most efficient pool.

I still see solo shares after some eligus shares; is that a glitch and should go away?

Solo
138055   Tue Jul 26 02:23:25 2011   25   2.500   pending

There will still be a small handful of solo shares, just due to how multipool's queue works.  I've tried removing solo at various points and stability suffers.  If a given miner is being 'bad' (lots of stales in a row with no good shares, or newly connected), it will also receive some extra solo shares so that the 'real' pools don't get mad for multiclone requesting way more work than we submit good shares.

Overall, solo looks to be accounting for <4% of the global share rate.  With a ~20% increase in earned BTC, it's still definitely worthwhile.

[nick5429]

Whoever is address "1D1ugDJrrifR7WG3TaU1w71yF2wiXmAGqC", something looks to be screwed up in your miner config.  I see a ton of connections from you that keep opening longpoll connections, but rarely request or submit any work.

Yesterday, it looks like you were mining okay-ish (barely; you were only submitting shares for about half of the getworks requested) with a 1-2 Ghash.  Today, the log is just getting spammed with longpoll requests; looks like you're maintaining ~80 open connections, but are hardly submitting any work.  Each time a new longpoll comes out, trying to handle all your connections is causing brief idles for everyone else.

I've temporarily blocked your access to multiclone due to the problems your miners are causing everyone else. Please PM me when you think you have it fixed and I'll re-enable you.

[Mike 71]

I got my last btc with last payout (last i can EXPECT, thos (already for 7K shortend) missing 3K will never arrive: http://multiclone.us.to:18080/user/?address=17L8TsmgcaJowgpuYBzMx9iXUfiQxCVv4T) and glad to not lost to much while tried mining again on multiclone believing nick will fix all issues as he said.

Just to be fair, those missing 3K arrived with last payout.

[Fletch]

I'm currently getting a lot of stales. Known issue?

[nick5429]

I'm currently getting a lot of stales. Known issue?

What are you calling 'a lot'? global rate for past ~day is around 3.5%, which is certainly higher than normal, but not ridiculously high.

I think it's likely due to the problem user my previous post describes.

[organofcorti]

Got my bitcoins.lc payout - thanks Nick!

Just 16000 shares on btcmine to go...

[nick5429]

Got my bitcoins.lc payout - thanks Nick!

Just 16000 shares on btcmine to go...

Ah right, I'd forgotten about that. And you seem to be the only one with that particular quirky problem.  I'll pay you out manually in the next day or two.

[bitcoindaddy]

I'm getting lots of "miner is idle" that has me very concerned that I'm wasting my time:

Code:

multiclone.us.to:18337 26/07/2011 21:42:24, warning: job finished, miner is idle
multiclone.us.to:18337 26/07/2011 21:45:17, warning: job finished, miner is idle
multiclone.us.to:18337 26/07/2011 21:45:50, long poll: new block 0000063f1e5e4e13
multiclone.us.to:18337 26/07/2011 21:52:34, warning: job finished, miner is idle
multiclone.us.to:18337 26/07/2011 21:53:51, warning: job finished, miner is idle
multiclone.us.to:18337 26/07/2011 21:57:31, warning: job finished, miner is idle
multiclone.us.to:18337 26/07/2011 21:58:01, warning: job finished, miner is idle
multiclone.us.to:18337 26/07/2011 21:59:10, warning: job finished, miner is idle
multiclone.us.to:18337 26/07/2011 22:01:28, warning: job finished, miner is idle
multiclone.us.to:18337 26/07/2011 22:02:15, long poll: new block 0000067b7385f553
multiclone.us.to:18337 26/07/2011 22:05:17, b39e6447, _rejected_                
multiclone.us.to:18337 26/07/2011 22:05:19, long poll: new block 0000095a255dea42
multiclone.us.to:18337 26/07/2011 22:07:17, 7dff8922, _rejected_                
multiclone.us.to:18337 26/07/2011 22:07:17, warning: job finished, miner is idle
multiclone.us.to:18337 26/07/2011 22:07:19, long poll: new block 0000016afff1b66c
multiclone.us.to:18337 26/07/2011 22:09:57, warning: job finished, miner is idle
multiclone.us.to:18337 26/07/2011 22:10:08, long poll: new block 0000090d917c298e
multiclone.us.to:18337 26/07/2011 22:11:42, long poll: new block 000008139440d94b
multiclone.us.to:18337 26/07/2011 22:12:15, warning: job finished, miner is idle
multiclone.us.to:18337 26/07/2011 22:12:39, warning: job finished, miner is idle
multiclone.us.to:18337 26/07/2011 22:12:55, long poll: new block 000008e7bf54783e
multiclone.us.to:18337 26/07/2011 22:20:51, warning: job finished, miner is idle
multiclone.us.to:18337 26/07/2011 22:23:10, warning: job finished, miner is idle
multiclone.us.to:18337 26/07/2011 22:26:54, long poll: new block 000008e16a037f20
multiclone.us.to:18337 26/07/2011 22:28:32, warning: job finished, miner is idle
multiclone.us.to:18337 26/07/2011 22:28:44, warning: job finished, miner is idle
multiclone.us.to:18337 26/07/2011 22:30:29, warning: job finished, miner is idle
multiclone.us.to:18337 26/07/2011 22:30:43, long poll: new block 0000094b1e5145af
multiclone.us.to:18337 26/07/2011 22:39:09, warning: job finished, miner is idle
multiclone.us.to:18337 [426.503 MH/s (~339 MH/s)] [Rej: 25/2253 (1.11%)]        

[organofcorti]

Got my bitcoins.lc payout - thanks Nick!

Just 16000 shares on btcmine to go...

Ah right, I'd forgotten about that. And you seem to be the only one with that particular quirky problem.  I'll pay you out manually in the next day or two.

No worries -  and I'm not hassling mind. I know running a pool part time must be a pain.

[Fletch]

I'm currently getting a lot of stales. Known issue?

What are you calling 'a lot'? global rate for past ~day is around 3.5%, which is certainly higher than normal, but not ridiculously high.

I think it's likely due to the problem user my previous post describes.

Well, I'm using Smartcoin and it was failing over to a different pool due to stales/rejected being above 10%. I can't say for sure what the numbers were. I will try again.

Edit: Just mined for a little over 20 minutes and got this:

Grand Total : [1049.11 MHash/sec] [308 Accepted] [35 Rejected] [11.363% Rejected]

[nick5429]

I'm currently getting a lot of stales. Known issue?

What are you calling 'a lot'? global rate for past ~day is around 3.5%, which is certainly higher than normal, but not ridiculously high.

I think it's likely due to the problem user my previous post describes.

Well, I'm using Smartcoin and it was failing over to a different pool due to stales/rejected being above 10%. I can't say for sure what the numbers were. I will try again.

Edit: Just mined for a little over 20 minutes and got this:

Grand Total : [1049.11 MHash/sec] [308 Accepted] [35 Rejected] [11.363% Rejected]

I had increased Multiclone's work pool queue yesterday to try to deal with the idles (which were caused by the problematic user).  Unfortunate side effect of this seems to be increased stales.  I put the work queue back where it was before.  Give it a shot again, and things should be back to how they were before?

[tschaboo]

Ah right, I'd forgotten about that. And you seem to be the only one with that particular quirky problem.  I'll pay you out manually in the next day or two.

I don't know if I have the same quirky problem, but I'm still waiting from my payout from more than 3 weeks ago:
http://multiclone.us.to:18080/user/?address=18jkF8XQHRPoNYfJKFNWnfT4Xz2sAEwkb7
http://multiclone.us.to:18080/user/?address=1GxYHKL445GiyXa2XHpQHzDqr4ixeemSSB
http://multiclone.us.to:18080/user/?address=1B5dUoXDzF1EamzxLejWW2Z7uty5VepYff

May you look into that?
Thanks.

[Fletch]

I had increased Multiclone's work pool queue yesterday to try to deal with the idles (which were caused by the problematic user).  Unfortunate side effect of this seems to be increased stales.  I put the work queue back where it was before.  Give it a shot again, and things should be back to how they were before?

I gave it another go and I'm afraid it's still very high.

Grand Total : [1049.77 MHash/sec] [164 Accepted] [16 Rejected] [9.756% Rejected]

[nick5429]

I had increased Multiclone's work pool queue yesterday to try to deal with the idles (which were caused by the problematic user).  Unfortunate side effect of this seems to be increased stales.  I put the work queue back where it was before.  Give it a shot again, and things should be back to how they were before?

I gave it another go and I'm afraid it's still very high.

Grand Total : [1049.77 MHash/sec] [164 Accepted] [16 Rejected] [9.756% Rejected]

This integration of the solo pool as a backup (with blocking calls! one malfunction and everything is borked!) causes more trouble than anything else... My local bitcoind flaked out and needed restarted, so the pool crashed for about 30 minutes just a little bit ago.

Have a couple different longpoll push mechanisms to try that can hopefully fix the stales issue.

[Fletch]

Whatever you did, it appears to be fixed now. Thanks!

Grand Total : [1051.37 MHash/sec] [4094 Accepted] [39 Rejected] [.952% Rejected]

[Folax]

Mining is fine.
Checking stats isn't: "Unable to connect" in browser. Anyone else unable to see the stats page?

[nick5429]

Mining is fine.
Checking stats isn't: "Unable to connect" in browser. Anyone else unable to see the stats page?

Fixed. Divide-by-zero error crashed the website.

[Houseonfire]

Mining is fine.
Checking stats isn't: "Unable to connect" in browser. Anyone else unable to see the stats page?

Fixed. Divide-by-zero error crashed the website.

Only the coolest of the cool can divide by zero.



Also, what happens when the solo gets a block? Is it just distributed among you and us?