Hi,
Nice, I just joined your pool, I hope it'll be fine. I didn't see a way to set a difficulty, difficulty started at 1 which is not efficient, it went to 8 after a while but still too low, I get only ~50% of my hash rate is there a way to change it?
Otherwise I have had a lot of troubles with other pools (including the official p2p one) and even solo mining, here are the issues I had:
- With 2 pools, I was getting about 1/4 of the coins I was estimated to get in one day (I know the difficulty increased but even today over 6 hours I got 1/3 of what I was supposed to get), cgminer found several blocks, and I know for sure 4 of them didn't appear in the found block list of the pool (that many orphans is unlikely)
- with the p2p pool... sometimes it works, sometimes not, yesterday I was having more than 60% rejects, today it was working find ofr a few hours, then I stopped getting any credit for my share (even they were accepted), in the "payout" list my sxc address wasn't listed... I lost 3 hours of mining today, and lost a lot in efficiently (I was getting about 1/2 of what I was supposed to get for my hash rate)
- solo mining : I let it run for a while and found a block after 2 hours, I didn't get credited anything (config is fine), was it orphan? I don't know how to check that, but it was found and accepted
I never got those problems with other coins
David.
Thanks for joining bud, nice to see a little more hashpower. The difficulty is variable, it starts out min and rises pretty quickly depending on your processing power. Also keep in mind mining is kind of like the lottery, there are no guarantees. sometimes the blocks get solved quicker than 30% of what's expected, and today I solved two blocks that took 5 times longer than they were expected to.
I have had the same issues on the p2p pools, I am wondering if it's because of network congestion or latency, somebody probably got the share in before you did.
One thing that definitely helps for the rejects is "--no-submit-stale" in your command line, or ""no-submit-stale" : true," in your cgminer.conf file. when a new block is found it discards old shares so they don't get rejected anyway.
As far as solo mining, i'm not sure how you would check to see if there are orphans.
Also, daygle, the miner you see in the pool is the owner. If you click on the support tab you can send him a message and he will get back to you. He has a lot of pride in making these pools work great for people like us!
