Kano
Any idea whats up with the pool the past few days. It seems like the pool needs to be reset every several days or the ability to catch blocks is non existence. And my miners that are normally extremely stable have been dropping hash rate and almost going to 0.0... Seems like something is up, even the p2p pools are catching blocks, and we have not in almost 3 and a half to 4 days
Just was wondering if there was a issue
Been a few ckpool restarts due to the problem I mentioned earlier, but it's still happening.
It doesn't lose blocks. The block luck is simply that - luck.
We don't count up to finding a block, we simply find a block randomly every so often, but expect to average finding a block (or orphan) every 100% Diff.
The affect of an outage is that for the seconds/minutes that the pool is acting up, that means less hashes trying to find a block.
The current block luck, is just that, bad luck finding it, as represented by the Diff% being high.
If you look at the stats up to the last block, they are still very good for 5 blocks, 25 blocks and 50 blocks, but bad for 10 blocks, even though there are a few high Diff % blocks there. 6 over 200% and 2 of those almost 400%
There's nothing unexpected in those numbers - if you look at the CDF[Erl] that gives an idea of how often those numbers are expected to be worse than they are.
So for the bad 10 block number, 16% of the time you expect it to be worse than that, 84% better than that.
The main issue with those numbers, I've mentioned before, is that even 50 blocks is not much of a sample to be able to infer any problems unless the CDF[Erl] was very close to 1.0000
Expected Block finding time is, of course, related to the pool hash rate. So since the rate has dropped quite a bit recently, the expected tim to find a block has increased also. So a 200% block at 2PHs takes twice as long as a 200% block at 4PHs, but since you are a larger % of the pool due to the pool having a lower hash rate, then you will get a larger % of the rewards.
