[CLOSED] BTC Guild - Pays TxFees+NMC, Stratum, VarDiff, Private Servers

[Subo1977]

Timezone selection is now available on the settings page.  All users are defaulted to GMT/UTC, so if you are not logged in or if you have not updated, all timestamps are now showing up as GMT/UTC.

Thanks for the Super fast solving

[nocturnal_vomit]

Reached 10 GH/s 

[eleuthria]

Reached 10 GH/s  

You did?  Or do you mean the pool hit 10 TH?  We bumped a little over 10,000 GH/s a few times in the last week.  The pool has been seeing some pretty healthy growth, ASICMINER got us some press, and the new layout has definitely grabbed the attention of more users.  Even though ASICMINER split/moved some speed off Guild, we've almost gained back that 1 TH/s in new and returning users this week.  Exciting times!  I look forward to the day I can change the display from GH/s to TH/s on the ticker.

[eleuthria]

EU Stratum server seems to be down.  Nothing currently points to an attack, just a datacenter issue.  Will update once its resolved.

EDIT: Server is back up and running.  Sorry for the downtime.  Still looking for a better host in the EU that will accept orders from overseas.  Hetzner does, but they're cheap, and there's always a price to pay with a cheap provider.

[Frequency]

EU Stratum server seems to be down.  Nothing currently points to an attack, just a datacenter issue.  Will update once its resolved.

EDIT: Server is back up and running.  Sorry for the downtime.  Still looking for a better host in the EU that will accept orders from overseas.  Hetzner does, but they're cheap, and there's always a price to pay with a cheap provider.

Thanks for the quick response ...!!! Everything back mining in less then 30 min great job...!!!   

[eleuthria]

EU Stratum server seems to be down.  Nothing currently points to an attack, just a datacenter issue.  Will update once its resolved.

EDIT: Server is back up and running.  Sorry for the downtime.  Still looking for a better host in the EU that will accept orders from overseas.  Hetzner does, but they're cheap, and there's always a price to pay with a cheap provider.

Thanks for the quick response ...!!! Everything back mining in less then 30 min great job...!!!   

That's part of the new backend.  The UI isn't just a new window dressing, there have been lots of things added under the hood.  Stratum servers have constant monitoring from two remote servers (which feed into the Pool Stats/Server Status page), and if they fail for more than 5 minutes my phone will make sure I know it.  Still working on a better alert system that will wake me up so I can't sleep through an outage.

[davebodger]

Hi, I'm trying to get into merged mining using GUIminer, downloaded from the BTCGuild website.
I can mine PPLNS or PPS OK normally via my stratum proxy but when I set it for merged mining I get error messages :-

2013-03-05 21:51:35: Running command: poclbm.exe xxxxxyyyyy_1:123@mergedmining.btcguild.com:8332 --device=0 --platform=0 --verbose -r1 --no-bfl -v -w128 -f1 xxxxyyyy@hotmail.com_xxxyyy:zzzzz@pit.deepbit.net:8332
2013-03-05 21:51:35: Listener for "BTCG" started
2013-03-05 21:51:36: Listener for "BTCG": 05/03/2013 21:51:36, started OpenCL miner on platform 0, device 0 (Tahiti)
2013-03-05 21:51:36: Listener for "BTCG": mergedmining.btcguild.com:8332 05/03/2013 21:51:36, checking for stratum...
2013-03-05 21:51:36: Listener for "BTCG": mergedmining.btcguild.com:8332 05/03/2013 21:51:36, diverted to stratum on none
2013-03-05 21:51:37: Listener for "BTCG": Traceback (most recent call last):
2013-03-05 21:51:37: Listener for "BTCG": File "poclbm.py", line 90, in <module>
2013-03-05 21:51:37: Listener for "BTCG": File "Switch.pyo", line 102, in loop
2013-03-05 21:51:37: Listener for "BTCG": File "StratumSource.pyo", line 89, in loop
2013-03-05 21:51:37: Listener for "BTCG": ValueError: need more than 1 value to unpack

It's like it's insisting on stratum and doen't like it when it doesn't find one?

Any ideas?

TIA.

Dave.

[eleuthria]

Hi, I'm trying to get into merged mining using GUIminer, downloaded from the BTCGuild website.
I can mine PPLNS or PPS OK normally via my stratum proxy but when I set it for merged mining I get error messages :-

[snip]

It's like it's insisting on stratum and doen't like it when it doesn't find one?

Any ideas?

TIA.

Dave.

Hmm, I'll see what I can do.  The getwork servers were all designed to push users to Stratum.  I thought it completely removed the X-Stratum header on that server but it looks like it did not, so poclbm is trying to follow an invalid IP/port and doesn't fail back to the getwork version.

[miner49er]

delays in the PPLNS blocks found currently, any problems ?

[nocturnal_vomit]

Reached 10 GH/s  

You did?  Or do you mean the pool hit 10 TH?  We bumped a little over 10,000 GH/s a few times in the last week.  The pool has been seeing some pretty healthy growth, ASICMINER got us some press, and the new layout has definitely grabbed the attention of more users.  Even though ASICMINER split/moved some speed off Guild, we've almost gained back that 1 TH/s in new and returning users this week.  Exciting times!  I look forward to the day I can change the display from GH/s to TH/s on the ticker.

I meant the pool. 

[eleuthria]

delays in the PPLNS blocks found currently, any problems ?

PPLNS blocks found stats are updated within 1 minute of a block being found, and the payments to shifts happen within 1 minute after that.  Not sure why you would consider that a delay, it's fairly standard that pool websites don't show blocks for a minute or so since the processing is done by cronjob scripts.

[miner49er]

thanks, eleuthria .
just not used to seeing all those zeros in there in a row.

must have refreshed at exactly the wrong time.

[eleuthria]

thanks, eleuthria .
just not used to seeing all those zeros in there in a row.

must have refreshed at exactly the wrong time.

We had ~2 hours without a block.  At the current pool speed, those shifts can get burned through pretty quick.  One of the many projects I'm working on behind the scenes is making sure the PPLNS system can seamlessly change shift sizes.  I'm looking into increasing the shift size from 3 million to 10 million shares, which would put us back to ~1 hour per shift, with the last 10 hours being paid for blocks.  Still a relatively short mature time (less than 1 day), and will help bring the per-shift variance back down a little.

[eleuthria]

The merged mining (getwork only) server has been restarted to correct a bug that was sending a 'none' X-Stratum redirect header.  Apparently poclbm did not fall back to getwork if the X-Stratum redirection failed.

[eleuthria]

A new Stratum server is being added to the rotation shortly.  This new server will be running with a 500,000 byte maximum blocksize instead of the current 250,000 byte default.

This is launching as a new server to avoid restarting any online Stratum servers.  Many miners still have issues with old mining software that doesn't detect a dead/disconnected Stratum server properly.  I'm hoping that by removing a current server from the DNS rotation, it will eventually shrink enough to be safe to turn off.

[davebodger]

The merged mining (getwork only) server has been restarted to correct a bug that was sending a 'none' X-Stratum redirect header.  Apparently poclbm did not fall back to getwork if the X-Stratum redirection failed.

Thanks very much for the speedy fix for this, it works OK for me now. 

I had temporarily worked around the problem by reverting to an older poclbm that did not do stratum, that allowed me to start mining NC.

Unfortunately the NC earnings total has now stopped incrementing. 
Possibly when your machine was restarted?

I have two machines running the old poclbm and two machines running the latest poclbm.
They are all incrementing BTC but not NC.
I have stopped/started everything at this end just in case, to no avail.

[eleuthria]

The merged mining (getwork only) server has been restarted to correct a bug that was sending a 'none' X-Stratum redirect header.  Apparently poclbm did not fall back to getwork if the X-Stratum redirection failed.

Thanks very much for the speedy fix for this, it works OK for me now.  

I had temporarily worked around the problem by reverting to an older poclbm that did not do stratum, that allowed me to start mining NC.

Unfortunately the NC earnings total has now stopped incrementing.  
Possibly when your machine was restarted?

I have two machines running the old poclbm and two machines running the latest poclbm.
They are all incrementing BTC but not NC.
I have stopped/started everything at this end just in case, to no avail.

Shoot, you're right.  The recompiled pool server was done with no knowledge of NMC, so it doesn't credit it.  Will fix ASAP.  One of the many reasons I'd love to get rid of MM/Getwork, I hate this Java code needed for the old getwork servers to keep running.

UPDATE:  Merged mining server restarted, NMC shares now being recorded again.

[davebodger]

Shoot, you're right.  The recompiled pool server was done with no knowledge of NMC, so it doesn't credit it.  Will fix ASAP.  One of the many reasons I'd love to get rid of MM/Getwork, I hate this Java code needed for the old getwork servers to keep running.

UPDATE:  Merged mining server restarted, NMC shares now being recorded again.

Thanks very much for your very speedy response.

All OK at this end now. 

Regards.

Dave.

[eleuthria]

EU-Stratum down again, this server seems to have gremlins.  Moving DNS to the old server until I can get a new one up.

[eleuthria]

The first new server running non-default block rules is now running under stratum.btcguild.com (stratum4.btcguild.com for direct non-round robin).

This server is currently running the following rule set:
Blockmaxsize=500000 (double current default)
Blockprioritysize=0 (No space is reserved specifically for non-fee transactions)
Blockminsize=100000 (will include freebies up to a block size of 100 KB, but transactions with a fee take priority)


Other servers will be updated similarly later.  These changes should see a marginal increase (long-term) for PPLNS users, since they will favor blocks that generate more in transaction fees whenever possible.