I have noticed a lot of communication failures to the pool. I see the hash rate drop suddenly [and my fan quiet down and a second later everything is back to normal.
Listener for "Deepbit": 04/05/2011 17:31:30, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
Listener for "Deepbit": 04/05/2011 17:34:23, long poll: new block 000080247f9334f1
Listener for "Deepbit": 04/05/2011 17:37:18, long poll: new block 00000182fab8bdec
Listener for "Deepbit": 04/05/2011 17:43:35, long poll: new block 000026c251a79438
Listener for "Deepbit": 04/05/2011 17:45:57, long poll: new block 0000781183a2e1a9
Listener for "Deepbit": 04/05/2011 17:46:43, long poll: new block 00000b3542f08cdc
Listener for "Deepbit": 04/05/2011 17:48:40, warning: job finished, miner is idle
Listener for "Deepbit": 04/05/2011 17:48:47, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
I didn't have this problem using Slush or BTCMine, but there are reasons that I am using deepbit right now.
Tycho ... do you know what is going on? BTW ... I have been using Google DNS for months (I figure nothing on the Internet is truly private these days, so at least the blame can all fall on one company
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).
It just happened again less than a couple of minutes later ... note the overlap here for context.
Listener for "Deepbit": 04/05/2011 17:46:43, long poll: new block 00000b3542f08cdc
Listener for "Deepbit": 04/05/2011 17:48:40, warning: job finished, miner is idle
Listener for "Deepbit": 04/05/2011 17:48:47, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
Listener for "Deepbit": 04/05/2011 17:56:44, warning: job finished, miner is idle