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[allinvain]

lol love how my 24 hour earnings shows "3,458,047.50000000" ...now if only it was true 

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[eleuthria]

lol love how my 24 hour earnings shows "3,458,047.50000000" ...now if only it was true 

That's...interesting.  I'll have to poke around to figure out why you saw that.

[allinvain]

lol love how my 24 hour earnings shows "3,458,047.50000000" ...now if only it was true 

That's...interesting.  I'll have to poke around to figure out why you saw that.

The keyword there is _saw_. It seems to  have disappeared after I refreshed the page. Granted I waited a few hours to refresh the page (just did it 2 minutes ago)

[eleuthria]

I think I figured out what triggered it, shouldn't happen again.  At least for a few brief moments you earned 1/3rd of all bitcoins ever mined in a 24 hour period.  At least on paper you did ;p

[beekeeper]

lol love how my 24 hour earnings shows "3,458,047.50000000" ...now if only it was true 

beat this:

[eleuthria]

lol love how my 24 hour earnings shows "3,458,047.50000000" ...now if only it was true 

beat this:

That should be fixed now as well.  It was related to how my averaging window resets when a miner hasn't submitted a share for more than 10 minutes.

[beekeeper]

That should be fixed now as well.  It was related to how my averaging window resets when a miner hasn't submitted a share for more than 10 minutes.

Lol, why, it was only lasting for seconds, and the feeling was good, virtually owning the entire network hash power..

[bal3wolf]

hmm this sucks all night i didnt get any shares on one of my computers using the private dns did you cut them off without telling us on the site lol.

hmm looks to be on my side but gpu is heating up and showing usage but not getting any work done.


A heads up anyone trying the 12.9 betas you must use the opencl it comes with i had older ones and they wont work even tho the opencl was detected and it was even showing it was mining but no shares got done.

[BitMinerN8]

I was just wondering, this might have been covered already but for the last couple days I have noticed that some of my slower mining rigs <400 Mhash sometimes don't report for > 12-14 minutes and I receive idle alerts. They are on Stratum. Proxy 0.8.3 on Windows with cgminer 2.7.6 on Windows. It all looks normal on the console, getting Accepted shares, then all of a sudden it posts on the miner stats page and all is good. It also increases by a large number of shares, not just one, so it must be queued. Is this because of the variable difficulty? The reason I ask is I never have seen the Diff increase on cgminer, it always stays at 1.
Example:
2012-09-27 14:26:08 Accepted 34ec7dc3 Diff 1 GPU 1 pool 0
2012-09-27 14:26:11 Accepted f38d11b9 Diff 1 GPU 1 pool 0
2012-09-27 14:26:17 Accepted fa65c0f3 Diff 1 GPU 0 pool 0
2012-09-27 14:26:35 Accepted ebd11c56 Diff 1 GPU 0 pool 0

Should I just move those slower rigs back to direct URL and leave Stratum for my > 4000 MHash rigs?
Thanks.

[slush]

The reason I ask is I never have seen the Diff increase on cgminer, it always stays at 1.

This is because proxy still reports difficulty 1 to miners. Some older miners have issues with >diff1. However you can propagate real difficulty to miners by starting proxy with --real-target parameter. Latest cgminer works well with it.

It also increases by a large number of shares, not just one, so it must be queued.

This may be network or server issue. Are both fast and slower rig on the same network location?

[BitMinerN8]

The reason I ask is I never have seen the Diff increase on cgminer, it always stays at 1.

This is because proxy still reports difficulty 1 to miners. Some older miners have issues with >diff1. However you can propagate real difficulty to miners by starting proxy with --real-target parameter. Latest cgminer works well with it.

It also increases by a large number of shares, not just one, so it must be queued.

This may be network or server issue. Are both fast and slower rig on the same network location?

Cool the --real-target parameter is now showing the higher Diff on the cgminer console. (Currently at Diff 4) Thanks.
Yes, both the slow and fast rigs are on the same network, pointed at the same Stratum Proxy.

[eleuthria]

The reason I ask is I never have seen the Diff increase on cgminer, it always stays at 1.

This is because proxy still reports difficulty 1 to miners. Some older miners have issues with >diff1. However you can propagate real difficulty to miners by starting proxy with --real-target parameter. Latest cgminer works well with it.

It also increases by a large number of shares, not just one, so it must be queued.

This may be network or server issue. Are both fast and slower rig on the same network location?

Cool the --real-target parameter is now showing the higher Diff on the cgminer console. (Currently at Diff 4) Thanks.
Yes, both the slow and fast rigs are on the same network, pointed at the same Stratum Proxy.

Yes, you should run --real-target if you are using cgminer.  The proxy hiding real diff from miners is nice (since it stops some miners from breaking), but it's a bit confusing since those don't reach the server.  So you see "accepted" shares constantly, but your count on the website doesn't go up because they aren't the difficulty the server is expecting, so the proxy is just keeping your miner happy by lying to it.

Fast and slow miners on the same proxy is fine, the only problem with it is you end up with some workers showing much longer periods between shares.  The average for your whole farm is very consistent though.

[Joshwaa]

I do not have the --real-target in my cgminer it just exits when I add that command. I can not see it in the help either. CGminer 2.7.6 windows. Any ideas?

[Mobius]

I do not have the --real-target in my cgminer it just exits when I add that command. I can not see it in the help either. CGminer 2.7.6 windows. Any ideas?

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it's a command line option for the proxy, not cgminer

[Joshwaa]

LOL.. Guess I should wait till I wake up to ask questions.. Thanks!

[uuidman]

Regarding user rudrigorc2 question about half MH in cgminer 2.4.1 (in EMC-tread) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=16385.msg1215600#msg1215600
On my side, it was just me, a coincidence that he was using 2.4.1 and had the same experience. I had launched an earlier cgminer (doh!).
Sorry for the fuzz.

[eleuthria]

Everything is still running smooth.  I am encouraging all users to switch to Stratum still.  The server has been rock solid and hasn't even needed a restart since it was moved to the primary pool.

[os2sam]

Everything is still running smooth.  I am encouraging all users to switch to Stratum still.  The server has been rock solid and hasn't even needed a restart since it was moved to the primary pool.

I will when my mining software supports it.  Not really interested in using the proxy at the moment, although I can see some advantages to it.

[eleuthria]

Everything is still running smooth.  I am encouraging all users to switch to Stratum still.  The server has been rock solid and hasn't even needed a restart since it was moved to the primary pool.

I will when my mining software supports it.  Not really interested in using the proxy at the moment, although I can see some advantages to it.

The proxy is actually great for large farms even after native support is introduced, since it merges all the mining traffic for your whole farm into a single stratum connection.  For a small number of machines, I can understand waiting for native support.  Luckily ckolivas seems to be making good progress with cgminer.

[BitMinerN8]

Everything is still running smooth.  I am encouraging all users to switch to Stratum still.  The server has been rock solid and hasn't even needed a restart since it was moved to the primary pool.

I will when my mining software supports it.  Not really interested in using the proxy at the moment, although I can see some advantages to it.

The proxy is actually great for large farms even after native support is introduced, since it merges all the mining traffic for your whole farm into a single stratum connection.  For a small number of machines, I can understand waiting for native support.  Luckily ckolivas seems to be making good progress with cgminer.

Yes it really is working very well. Stales are down and efficiency is way up over the older standard pool connections. Stratum is the bees knees, the snake's hips', the kipper's knickers, and the cat's pyjamas. I'm looking forward to seeing what Con comes up with, as when more of the top tier mining software supports it natively, you'll see it take off even more. With ASICs just around the corner, this was a great move to future proof the pool. Excellent job in testing, and implementing the solution into the current pool without a hitch. As a fellow SysAdmin I can appreciate your hard work and dedication in making this transition pretty much a seamless one. Keep up the great work. Thank you.