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

[anatolikostis]

Well, if pool is down or this is not in the first time...may be it`s time for the @https@?
 

Minor suggestion:
I`d like to see in stats # of current block...is it real to implement?

[mmortal03]

Hmm, I'm having a different sort of problem, though.  I can't connect using the Ufasoft bitcoin-miner 0.10 CPU miner, it stays at 0 MHash/sec.

These are the contents of the .bat I'm using to connect:

Code:

start /D "C:\Users\ChaosFox\Documents" bitcoin-miner.exe -o http://btcguild.com:8332 -u ChaosFox_xxxxxxxx -p xxxxxxxx

I can't spot any mistake, and it's pretty much the same I've been using to connect to other pools before.

EDIT: I found the possible cause of the issues:

After some work with luke-jr, I can now say that ufasoft now works with his pool (Eligius).

Typical command line

bitcoin-miner.exe -a 5 -o http://pool.bitcoin.dashjr.org:8337 -u <your bitcoin address> -p <whatever>

what i like about luke's pool is that you can use port 80 too (great for NATs) and you don't need to register on a website,
you just send the payment address in the user and you receive payments when they go above 1 BTC.

I saw there were posts here having problems with bitpenny pool too so i will write what solved the issue here (it might be the same problem there).

The problem used to be: 
after running bitcoin-miner.exe, it would just get stuck on 0 MH/sec.

the problem was with the pool because it didn't obey this requirement:
"The response MUST include a WWW-Authenticate header field (section 14.47) containing a challenge applicable to the requested resource."

This was fixed.
 

I just signed up for BTC Guild, and am also getting this 0 MHash/s issue with the ufasoft miner.  I've had no problems using the ufasoft miner over at mining.bitcoin.cz.  Is this a known issue?

[eleuthria]

I've contacted ufasoft for some assistance in getting the compatibility with his miner fixed.

In other news, we crossed 100 gH/sec a while ago, and are still seeing a steady rise.  The new hardware is having no issues handling this additional load based off the reports in the IRC channel.

Many updates will be going live in the next 48 hours now that my attention is allowed to move from scaling/hardware to software updates.

[grndzero]

I've contacted ufasoft for some assistance in getting the compatibility with his miner fixed.

In other news, we crossed 100 gH/sec a while ago, and are still seeing a steady rise.  The new hardware is having no issues handling this additional load based off the reports in the IRC channel.

Many updates will be going live in the next 48 hours now that my attention is allowed to move from scaling/hardware to software updates.

Hopefully more speed will minimize the variance some and make for shorter rounds, because it's making my payments smaller even though I just increased my hashing rate.

[lebish]

Throwing 100Mh/s your way, congrats on hitting 100 gH/sec!

[Basiley]

I've contacted ufasoft for some assistance in getting the compatibility with his miner fixed.

In other news, we crossed 100 gH/sec a while ago, and are still seeing a steady rise.  The new hardware is having no issues handling this additional load based off the reports in the IRC channel.

Many updates will be going live in the next 48 hours now that my attention is allowed to move from scaling/hardware to software updates.

Hopefully more speed will minimize the variance some and make for shorter rounds, because it's making my payments smaller even though I just increased my hashing rate.

sure. bigger pool size==better efficiency/stable load.

[grndzero]

I've contacted ufasoft for some assistance in getting the compatibility with his miner fixed.

In other news, we crossed 100 gH/sec a while ago, and are still seeing a steady rise.  The new hardware is having no issues handling this additional load based off the reports in the IRC channel.

Many updates will be going live in the next 48 hours now that my attention is allowed to move from scaling/hardware to software updates.

Hopefully more speed will minimize the variance some and make for shorter rounds, because it's making my payments smaller even though I just increased my hashing rate.

sure. bigger pool size==better efficiency/stable load.

Theoretically yes, in actuality, not all the time. Even deepbit has been getting 1 hour long sessions before getting a solve, and that's at 1 Th/s. Simple math would say that a 10 hr block @ 100 GH/s would be acceptable, when I think a lot of people would get frustrated if it went that long and some would hop over to another pool.

[REF]

pool down again :<

[grndzero]

pool down again :<

[21/05/2011 06:42:52] LP: New work pushed
[21/05/2011 06:43:04] Warning: work queue empty, miner is idle
[21/05/2011 06:43:22] Disconnected from server

for tracking purposes. Time is GMT-7

[JayC]

pool down again :<

[21/05/2011 06:42:52] LP: New work pushed
[21/05/2011 06:43:04] Warning: work queue empty, miner is idle
[21/05/2011 06:43:22] Disconnected from server

for tracking purposes. Time is GMT-7

It appears the pool is down for everybody...  Happened about this time yesterday too.

[grndzero]

pool down again :<

[21/05/2011 06:42:52] LP: New work pushed
[21/05/2011 06:43:04] Warning: work queue empty, miner is idle
[21/05/2011 06:43:22] Disconnected from server

for tracking purposes. Time is GMT-7

It appears the pool is down for everybody...  Happened about this time yesterday too.

Yeah and he didn't have time to debug it yesterday. That's why I posted the log so he would have an idea where to start looking to find out what was going on with the system at that time.

[eleuthria]

Pool is back up.  I have an idea of what may have caused it.

I also added a watchdog monitor to the pool processes, and added the pool & bitcoind processes as startup scripts so the server should auto recover in less than 20 seconds if it does happen again.

[grndzero]

Pool is back up.  I have an idea of what may have caused it.

I also added a watchdog monitor to the pool processes, and added the pool & bitcoind processes as startup scripts so the server should auto recover in less than 20 seconds if it does happen again.

Not sure about yours but my cron is set to run cron.daily at 0625. Something in the cron process freaking out the system? Was it a fresh install when you moved to the new hardware, or did you copy the current system across? Maybe looking for something that's not there anymore or moved?

[REF]

i still get stale shares a lot.

[ensign_lee]

Pool down again.

Reference 10:00 CST.

Poor eleuthria. In case nobody's said it lately, thanks for setting up the pool and hitfixing issues for us! I know in terms of bitcoins generated for you so far it probably hasn't been worth it so far. Thank you!

[eleuthria]

The problem has been identified.  The user running the pool service was hitting the open socket limits as we were above 100 gH/sec.  I have modified the limits on the user the pool service runs under, and restarted the pool.

[eleuthria]

The pool did a very quick restart (< 1 second) to push the 0.4 pushpool updates live, and fix the Ufasoft CPU miner problems that people were having.  TCP Keepalive connections are part of this update, which may provide a marginal performance increase, as well as reduce the load on the router, which was recycling connections constantly (and led to a slowdown earlier today).

[BitcoinsWallet]

eleuthria your pool are included now in the current version of "GUIMiner" by Kiv:

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=3878.0

 

[lebish]

i still get stale shares a lot.

This was happening a bit yesterday but has cleared up for me!

[WilliamJohnson]

Adding SSL encryption would be nice, to protect the passwords. (There are cheap, and even free SSL certificates).

Another option would be Luke's idea (from the Eligius pool): http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=6667.msg97375#msg97375
By using wallet addresses as a usernames, there's no need to protect the passwords.


I have a (totally unrelated) question:
When you hit the "Pay Me Now" button, are there any transaction fees? (like 0.01 BTC?)