[~1000 GH/sec] BTC Guild - 0% Fee Pool, LP, SSL, Full Precision, and More

[SteveB]

I have been getting quite a lot of idle miner warnings over the past hour or so. I thought maybe it was my crappy internet connection, but my low priority deepbit backup miner shows no errors over the same time. So I guess the problem must be on the server side. Hopefully the mentioned server upgrade will solve it. 

[eleuthria]

Pool will be down for approximately 5 minutes to prune all the confirmed block shares out of the DB.  This will hopefully allow the pool to keep up with the current hash rate until the new hardware arrives tomorrow.

[Muhahahahaz]

Pool will be down for approximately 5 minutes to prune all the confirmed block shares out of the DB.  This will hopefully allow the pool to keep up with the current hash rate until the new hardware arrives tomorrow.

Long 5 minutes is long...

[SteveB]

The pool is back up and the idle miner warnings I was getting before are gone.
Good job eleuthria!

[Muhahahahaz]

The pool is back up and the idle miner warnings I was getting before are gone.
Good job eleuthria!

Yay!

Edit: By the way, where is the rename worker option? I can't seem to find it...

[SteveB]

Edit: By the way, where is the rename worker option? I can't seem to find it...

You're right. That option seems to be gone.

[eleuthria]

Rename worker is disabled until the hardware switch.  The default pushpool method of storing workers in the share database is by username as a text field.  Meaning to accurately swap a worker's name, the entire share database needed updating.

With tomorrow's maintenance, I'm changing the pushpool software to use worker and user IDs rather than text names, and the ability to rename workers will be restored.

[Muhahahahaz]

Rename worker is disabled until the hardware switch.  The default pushpool method of storing workers in the share database is by username as a text field.  Meaning to accurately swap a worker's name, the entire share database needed updating.

With tomorrow's maintenance, I'm changing the pushpool software to use worker and user IDs rather than text names, and the ability to rename workers will be restored.

Cool, thanks!

In other news: I found a block!! Now we can say goodbye to that long round.

[pindis]

Hi guys

At first when I started on BTC guild I was getting 0.3xxxxxxx btc pr round. it has gone down to 0.2xxx max now. Is this because of more users in the pool or is it just rapidly getting harder to mine?

Best regards!

[Dyaheon]

Hi guys

At first when I started on BTC guild I was getting 0.3xxxxxxx btc pr round. it has gone down to 0.2xxx max now. Is this because of more users in the pool or is it just rapidly getting harder to mine?

Best regards!

It is because of more users in the pool so everyone gets less but more often. Difficulty hasn't changed for over a week now, however it will almost double inside the next 24 hours, which means you'll end up getting only about half of what you get now.

[pindis]

Hi guys

At first when I started on BTC guild I was getting 0.3xxxxxxx btc pr round. it has gone down to 0.2xxx max now. Is this because of more users in the pool or is it just rapidly getting harder to mine?

Best regards!

It is because of more users in the pool so everyone gets less but more often. Difficulty hasn't changed for over a week now, however it will almost double inside the next 24 hours, which means you'll end up getting only about half of what you get now.

Gotcha!

Gonna have to order a 5850 then.

[Nythain]

difficulty increase/decrease really shouldn't impact ones round shares and estimated reward at all. we're all solving difficulty 1 in the pool until someone just happens to return a solution that also meets/solves the block at real difficulty. the only thing that will/should impact your estimated reward is the amount of shares you turn in, in relation to the amount of shares other users turn in (which is generally based on your total hashing speed, though luck is a factor also), and the amount of other workers/users. as the pool gets bigger, expect to earn less since the bounty is divided up amongst more, and as more faster miners join, expect your rewards to decrease because you hold less % of the shares.

but, more users and faster speed is a good thing, because it generally leads to better chances of solving a block faster, which means more frequent bounties, which means more btc even if each round reward is lower.

you could have a 10 hour round where your estimate was 3btc for the whole thing, and get 3btc when it finally solves, or you could have 3x 3 hour rounds where your estimate is only 1.5 btc and make 4.5btc in less time. if that makes sense.

[eleuthria]

As a reminder since it is now a page or two back, the pool will have a 1-2 hour maintenance 2 hours from now.  This is to install new hardware for the server to be able to keep up with the demand of our increasing has rate.

[SteveB]

As a reminder since it is now a page or two back, the pool will have a 1-2 hour maintenance 2 hours from now.  This is to install new hardware for the server to be able to keep up with the demand of our increasing has rate.

Thanks for the reminder!

I sure hope that hardware upgrade will fix the idle miner warnings. It's pretty bad today. I get about 2-3 per minute!

[Muhahahahaz]

The pool is back up!

I could tell right away cuz my video card fans started spinning fast again.

[eleuthria]

Maintenance took quite a bit longer than expected due to MySQL being very unhappy about moving to a new drive, which interfered with time I had set aside for my day job.

Pool is back online now, and the new drive is screaming fast compared to the old one!  Some additional updates were run on the pool, so please keep an eye out for any display glitches in your stats.

Now that the hardware and software has been upgraded, I can return to working on the features I wanted to get done last weekend.

[Muhahahahaz]

Maintenance took quite a bit longer than expected due to MySQL being very unhappy about moving to a new drive, which interfered with time I had set aside for my day job.

Pool is back online now, and the new drive is screaming fast compared to the old one!  Some additional updates were run on the pool, so please keep an eye out for any display glitches in your stats.

Now that the hardware and software has been upgraded, I can return to working on the features I wanted to get done last weekend.

Thanks for everything!

[kjj]

Maintenance took quite a bit longer than expected due to MySQL being very unhappy about moving to a new drive, which interfered with time I had set aside for my day job.

Inno?

Happy to see it back up.  Don't miss working in a datacenter at all.

[jme621]

just joined, thanks.

EDIT: ok maybe i didnt, do i use the settings from page 13 or post #1 if i am using the gui miner?

[ensign_lee]

just joined, thanks.

EDIT: ok maybe i didnt, do i use the settings from page 13 or post #1 if i am using the gui miner?

Using the GUI miner, do this:

Server: Other
Host: btcguild.com
Username: (your worker name)
Password: (your worker password)
Port: 8332
Device: (your GPU, not CPU)