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

[IamFuzzles]

Didn't want to create a whole new topic, so maybe someone here will notice and answer a few questions. First off, what exactly is the "stale" count? What is an average stale count for a round or per some period of time? How do I prevent them? Thank you for the help

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[jasonk]

just the heads up
http://btcguild.com/  shows empty page, thought site wasn't working because moving to a new location until i decided to check www.btcguild.com few hours later

When it doubt, use SSL... https://btcguild.com has worked when earlier http:// was down.

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I just started getting more idle miners and random TCP errors.  I may have to switch pools again of this continues.  Are the severs overloaded or what?

Looking at my logs, the last maybe hour or so I've gotten idle miners every 2-3 minutes...

[jasonk]

hmmmmm.... 6% rejected shares, i think because of the idle miners.  This is not good

[bodhipraxis]

Yep, both of my current miners are going idle about every two to three minutes.

[bodhipraxis]

main website (haven't tried https: yet) gives this message: "Failed to connect to BTC Guild database. Please try again later."

[bodhipraxis]

well, https://www.btcguild.com is "Loading" in firefox...probably not up at this point.
Miners are inconsistent with connection: one of my miners, (phoenix on pyopencl ubuntu 11.04) which has been solid all day is now at 0 Khash/sec. I will have to restart it.
The other (win 7)  is working.

[Sebz4n]

Site down?

[bodhipraxis]

ok, the https:// site partially loads, with message "Failed to connect to UK BTCGuild" in content area on front page.

[bodhipraxis]

attempt to connect to http://www.btcguild.com gives error "Failed to connect to UK BTCGuild" when I attempt to load "My Account" page (10:43 AM UTC)

[bodhipraxis]

btcguild.com is loading again, share counts are zeroed out and hash count not working, tho.

[bodhipraxis]

btcguild.com running again, both of my miners working again at 2.5% donation. Thanks, eleuth*.

[warsmith]

My gpu usage drops every 1-2minutes to 0% for a few seconds, and diablo miner says "ERROR: Can't connect to Bitcoin: connect timed out"
what's up?

[fcmatt]

main website (haven't tried https: yet) gives this message: "Failed to connect to BTC Guild database. Please try again later."

when going to the main page and clicking my account i get this:

Failed to connect to US East BTCGuild.

[fcmatt]

My gpu usage drops every 1-2minutes to 0% for a few seconds, and diablo miner says "ERROR: Can't connect to Bitcoin: connect timed out"
what's up?

guiminer is complaining of this: 2011-06-13 08:57:15: Listener for "card1": 13/06/2011 08:57:15, upstream RPC error
over and over again.

[Sebz4n]

My GUIMiner is reporting Connection Problems, what's going on? Anybody else with this issue?

[Claudeski]

Yep, same, "upstream RPC error".

[kokojie]

Is there currently a reporting problem?  I see this:

9,553 workers at 1,536.46 GH/s
Round Time   3:36:20      Round Shares   4577435

Statistically speaking this is extremely improbable.  Is all the server shuffling creating problems for the website such that it doesn't really know when a block was found?  Or are we really just winning the anti-lottery?

No, it's actually not that improbable. Just means the pool is unlucky, other pools are solving the block before we can.

As I understand it other pools solving blocks doesn't affect our chances of solving a block at all, it is random chance when we hit one.  Having 1500GH/s just means we buy 1.5 trillion lottery tickets every second.  Sure we start using a new block header for hashes every time anyone solves a block, but that doesn't change the odds.  According to my limited understanding we have a 95% chance of finding a block within 1.5 hours at that hash rate.  A 2 hour round is an anomaly, a 3.5 hour round seems damn near impossible.  Not actually impossible, but so unlikely as to make me wonder if something else is going on.  It is certainly possible I'm misunderstanding things, I am no statistical genius.  Please educate me.

Then there's round #493, that were solved in 55 seconds, that's near impossible too

[hugolp]

My miners are going idle very often because of server connection problems as well.

[heavyb]

i'm having the same problem as well. 3 of my miners wont connect, 2 will. Weird.

[inh]

Yes it looks like im having issues as well, based on hash rates and last share times of my miners. Thankfully this is an excellent test of my miner restart script I got working last night, and so far it all seems to be working great