[204 GH/s] yourbtc.net closing it's doors on 2011-12-08

[teukon]

Some minor points on the charts:

- Credit History charts still have an old "Estimated Payout" label at the bottom.
- The geomap occasionally displays the figures on the colour key to a large number of decimal places.
- Credit History charts need a scale on the x-axis.
- The Namecoin luck chart could do with labels for the scale on the y-axis.

All issues fixed.

Can't reproduce the large number of decimal places on our geomap. If it happens again, it would be great if you could take a screenshot for me.

I will if I see it again.

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[teukon]

I've noticed the server has been going down rather frequetly recently.  I remember not long ago I managed to fill my hashrate graph with solid mining (save one barely detectable blip) but now there are a bunch of spikes to 0, some a full hour wide!

Any idea on the cause?

[ocminer]

Its "ok" for me, just some minor downtimes where cgminer automatically switches over to deepbit:

[freakfantom]

as far as I can observe downtime happens when new block is found

[teukon]

From the site:

Sorry, have been really busy the last couple of days. Here is a statement in short: under certan circumstances the server doesn't respond anymore (workaound server restart), i'am looking for a fix today.

As many of you noticed we experienced small outages of our poolserver in random intervals recently.

We are looking forward to fix this issue with an upgrade to PoolserverJ 0.4 today at 06:00pm (GMT+1).
The downtime window for the upgrade will be pretty small, just a couple of minutes.

I take this to mean that the problem is in software rather than hardware.  The new version of PoolServerJ 0.4 is much more than just a few patches and bugfixes.  See https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=51226.0 for a full list of new features.

Best of luck with the upgrade urstroyer.  I'll be watching my stales, new jobs, uptime, et cetera like a hawk when this is put into place.  I hope this will help squash any last minute bugs and/or configuration issues as quickly as possible.

[shads]

teukon,

touch wood, the 0.4.0 upgrade should be smoother than previous ones.  The merged mining implementation touched pretty much every part of poolserverj's internal due the major refactoring required.  The additional features in 0.4.0 are built on top of the merged mining code and each feature is very much more self contained in it's own part of the code and tested in isolation from the other features whereas merged mining had to be done in one massive change then all parts of the code tested.  Also these were no where near as rushed as merged mining so have had an awful lot more testing on my local test environment before I committed them.  But as I said... touch wood. 

[urstroyer]

PoolserverJ v0.4 didn't love me today Update will be scheduled to tomorrow, if shadders can help here.

Code:

/poolserverj-0.4.0rc1/bin# java -classpath poolserverj.jar:../lib/*:../lib/lib_non-maven/*:../lib/plugins com.shadworld.poolserver.servicelauncher.PoolServerService start ../conf/local-daemon-mm.properties
Args - [2]: start ../conf/local-daemon-mm.properties
PoolServerJ Service Starting Tue Nov 08 18:30:58 CET 2011
[18:30:58.816] user.dir: /****/poolserverj-0.4.0rc1/bin
[18:30:58.817] Home path set to: /****/poolserverj-0.4.0rc1/bin/poolserverj.jar
[18:30:58.817] Home directory set from jar file location to: /****/poolserverj-0.4.0rc1
#####################################################################
###                PLEASE READ THIS                               ###
###                                                               ###
### PoolServerj contains the capability to send donations via     ###
### the coinbase transaction.  The provided sample properties     ###
### file is configured to send a small donation to the            ###
### poolserverj developer.  You can remove this if you want to.   ###
###                                                               ###
### This warning is intended to ensure you are aware that it      ###
### exists and will not appear again once you acknowlege it.      ###
###                                                               ###
### If you have read this warning and would like to continue      ###
### please indicate that you agree you are aware of the default   ###
### donation by typing 'I agree' at the prompt.                   ###
#####################################################################

Do you agree that you are aware of the default donation? : I agree
[18:31:00.969] Failed to read from console
java.io.IOException: No such file or directory
        at java.io.UnixFileSystem.createFileExclusively(Native Method)
        at java.io.File.createNewFile(File.java:883)
        at com.shadworld.poolserver.conf.Conf.doDonationWarning(Conf.java:298)
        at com.shadworld.poolserver.conf.Conf.update(Conf.java:263)
        at com.shadworld.poolserver.conf.Conf.init(Conf.java:189)
        at com.shadworld.poolserver.conf.Conf.init(Conf.java:175)
        at com.shadworld.poolserver.PoolServer.<init>(PoolServer.java:113)
        at com.shadworld.poolserver.servicelauncher.PoolServerService.start(PoolServerService.java:98)
        at com.shadworld.poolserver.servicelauncher.PoolServerService.windowsService(PoolServerService.java:58)
        at com.shadworld.poolserver.servicelauncher.PoolServerService.main(PoolServerService.java:28)

[cablepair]

hmmm, I wonder if this is a bug of some sort. I am working on installing the new version today as well and I am getting the same exact error

it's kind of strange because everything looks right

let me know if you figure out the problem and I will do the same..

thanks

[urstroyer]

hmmm, I wonder if this is a bug of some sort. I am working on installing the new version today as well and I am getting the same exact error

it's kind of strange because everything looks right

let me know if you figure out the problem and I will do the same..

thanks

Good to hear, i'am not alone in this

[jamesg]

I am glad to see the pool is growing. 

How do we get more miners to come over?

[ocminer]

The pool has to run 100% flawless before more miners will come over...

[jamesg]

The pool has to run 100% flawless before more miners will come over...

Not sure if you are new miner or not. If so, I am happy that you came over. 

I know urstroyer has setup a "test" server to try out 0.4 of psj. I will help him test it with my hashing power to make sure it is working smoothly before moving over to the main pool server. If you have any other suggestions, let's get them over to urstroyer so he can implement.

I have also recommend he use monit to monitor the different services on the server and restart them if necessary. Hopefully this will be implemented soon.

[teukon]

The pool has to run 100% flawless before more miners will come over...

Agreed.  With an average 3 outages a day over the last week I'd expect people to be leaving this pool in droves.  Given the fierce competition out there between the pools one can't expect a near future promise of stability to last for long.

[Inaba]

It seems all pools have this problem in the beginning.  Lord knows my pool was bouncing like a ball on occasion when I first started it up. 

[urstroyer]

The pool has to run 100% flawless before more miners will come over...

Agreed.  With an average 3 outages a day over the last week I'd expect people to be leaving this pool in droves.  Given the fierce competition out there between the pools one can't expect a near future promise of stability to last for long.

Just ordered a REALLY nice new server for loads of new capacity, those outages will be history soon. This is a really expensive one but you are worth the money!

[ocminer]

Nice to read, I'll up my donations a bit to help you out :-)

[teukon]

The pool has to run 100% flawless before more miners will come over...

Agreed.  With an average 3 outages a day over the last week I'd expect people to be leaving this pool in droves.  Given the fierce competition out there between the pools one can't expect a near future promise of stability to last for long.

Just ordered a REALLY nice new server for loads of new capacity, those outages will be history soon. This is a really expensive one but you are worth the money!

Awesome!  Have fun with the upgrade (it's always satisfying to work with new hardware).

Nice to read, I'll up my donations a bit to help you out :-)

I was particularly impressed to see that the pending donation is nearly 1% of the pending payout, a huge improvement (not long ago it was only 0.3%).

[jamesg]

Take a look at my new profile pic...

TWMZ has been kind enough to add profile pic sizes in addition to the sig bar version. In your sig bar url, change /sig/ to /avatar/ and you get the new version.

Now go off and promote the pool! 

[freakfantom]

Take a look at my new profile pic...

TWMZ has been kind enough to add profile pic sizes in addition to the sig bar version. In your sig bar url, change /sig/ to /avatar/ and you get the new version.

Now go off and promote the pool! 

Have a look at my avatar too! :-D gigasvps, congrats on the first building rig place!

[jamesg]

Take a look at my new profile pic...

TWMZ has been kind enough to add profile pic sizes in addition to the sig bar version. In your sig bar url, change /sig/ to /avatar/ and you get the new version.

Now go off and promote the pool! 

Have a look at my avatar too! :-D gigasvps, congrats on the first building rig place!

Thanks. I donated my prize to shadders for his work on poolserverj.