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[pj40]

I step out of the house for 30 minutes and the pool hits a block!  I guess I should step out more often 

As long as you stepped out for eating some chicken... no problem.

Actually I did step out to pick up some herb roasted chicken...that is too funny!

And I had a spicy chicken sandwich from Chik-Fil-A today!  Guess that's my staple diet at work from now on.

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[SergES]

Question for kano, you can add the current time on the site kano.is? I can not see the difference in the time zone. Hard to quickly see the actual time of block.

[kano]

Question for kano, you can add the current time on the site kano.is? I can not see the difference in the time zone. Hard to quickly see the actual time of block.

The block time shown is UTC (that's the: +00)

If I was to use javascript to display that in your local timezone, then that would depend on the computer clock being correct and the system/browser settings being correct for everyone
Knowing it is UTC and (always) correct makes more sense to me

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Aside: 2 other times are shown at the bottom, but are pretty useless since most people should know the current time where they are and their timezone, so they are small

The current time on the site is in tiny text on the bottom left, and is, as it says, UTC
This should always be accurate, and also happens to match the correct time the 2FA uses of course.

Your browser time is on the bottom right in tiny text - which should match your time zone unless you messed up your computer clock or system/browser timezone setting some how.

[SergES]

Thank you, now I see, it asked, I did not see it because the bottom of the site is very uncomfortable, move to the top if you can.

[winspiral]

On this page:

https://www.kano.is/index.php?k=shifts

we can see under "Rewards" numbers...
could you please explain a little...or say where I can find explanations?
thanks in advance.

[kano]

On this page:

https://www.kano.is/index.php?k=shifts

we can see under "Rewards" numbers...
could you please explain a little...or say where I can find explanations?
thanks in advance.

Shift: shift name
Start UTC: shift start time
Length: length of shift
Your Diff: accepted difficulty you submitted in that shift
Inv Diff: invalid/stale difficulty you submitted in that shift
Avg Hs: the calculated hash rate for "Length" based on "Your Diff"
Shares: how many shares you had accepted in that shift
Avg Share: average difficulty of all shares submitted in that shift
Rewards: how many times this shift has been rewarded (so far) - 5 is the expected number once it gets below the red line
Rewarded*: what that amount actually is ... as per * at the bottom: "*The Rewarded value unit is satoshis per 1diff share"
PPS%: how that amount so far compares to 100% PPS

Normally, any shifts below the red line will get no more rewards.
Shift above the red line may get more depending upon when blocks are found
The norm is 5 rewards when pool luck is 100% ... though the average will actually be a little above 5 when pool luck is 100% since the PPLNS N is 5Nd plus a bit

[kano]

Thank you, now I see, it asked, I did not see it because the bottom of the site is very uncomfortable, move to the top if you can.

It's only there at the bottom in case someone wants to check their time vs the pool - once in a blue moon
It's also a bit out of space to fit it anywhere at the top.

[kano]

I will be doing some main server updates shortly.

First will be an update for ckdb.
As usual the 1st ckdb update will not affect miners, but just the web site will be showing not much useful for the ~15 minutes after I restart ckdb.
The changes involved are all behind the scenes.
I've added some new lock checking and (100%) deadlock prediction code to get things ready for threading some of the threads that can block and slow things down on rare occasions.
ckdb + ckpool is fine at 6PH (as we saw yesterday when we found that block) and all probably would be ok well above 40PH, but there's ways I can make sure of that and make that upper limit higher ... so with this change I'll be able to verify all is OK to go ahead and speed ckdb up even more.
I don't expect any problems with the changes even though they are rather extensive:
(as can be seen here: https://bitbucket.org/ckolivas/ckpool/commits/c7f03c2a331f111696f0e8163f295461711e8eb5 )
but of course they don't affect ckpool running so the only side effect could be some restarts of ckdb due to new ckdb code problems - that I don't expect that at all.


After that I'll also do a ckpool restart.
There's some changes in there that may help improve performance also - but ckpool is far from having any performance problems on the pool.
For the majority of users, a ckpool restart should just show as a reconnect in cgminer.
Though some minority of users will see a failover since not everyone reconnects fast enough
- inside the 30 seconds required to avoid a failover in cgminer.

I'll post again once it's all done.

Edit: ckdb restart complete - web site all back ok

Edit2: yeah the 2nd step was done also (about 8 minutes ago) ... now almost back to where we were before that

[epichaberdasher]

On this page:

https://www.kano.is/index.php?k=shifts

we can see under "Rewards" numbers...
could you please explain a little...or say where I can find explanations?
thanks in advance.

Shift: shift name
Start UTC: shift start time
Length: length of shift
Your Diff: accepted difficulty you submitted in that shift
Inv Diff: invalid/stale difficulty you submitted in that shift
Avg Hs: the calculated hash rate for "Length" based on "Your Diff"
Shares: how many shares you had accepted in that shift
Avg Share: average difficulty of all shares submitted in that shift
Rewards: how many times this shift has been rewarded (so far) - 5 is the expected number once it gets below the red line
Rewarded*: what that amount actually is ... as per * at the bottom: "*The Rewarded value unit is satoshis per 1diff share"
PPS%: how that amount so far compares to 100% PPS

Normally, any shifts below the red line will get no more rewards.
Shift above the red line may get more depending upon when blocks are found
The norm is 5 rewards when pool luck is 100% ... though the average will actually be a little above 5 when pool luck is 100% since the PPLNS N is 5Nd plus a bit

Is there a way to tell how much of my last reward is attributed to a particular worker in my group ?

[kano]

Is there a way to tell how much of my last reward is attributed to a particular worker in my group ?

No, not with anything available on the web site at the moment.

[omega015]

I will be doing some main server updates shortly.

Hi Kano, would the server updates you have done cause the ckpool status app to report my hash rate was low? I'm guessing so as the site probably was not available/updating hash rates, but thought I'd ask.

Thanks.

EDIT: It was only earlier today that I got a low hash alert, stats back to normal now.

[kano]

I will be doing some main server updates shortly.

Hi Kano, would the server updates you have done cause the ckpool status app to report my hash rate was low? I'm guessing so as the site probably was not available/updating hash rates, but thought I'd ask.

Thanks.

EDIT: It was only earlier today that I got a low hash alert, stats back to normal now.

During a ckdb restart the stats won't show for ~15 minutes

During a ckpool restart that will depend on if you failover or manage to reconnect in time.

However it seems there's a bug with the 1hr stat, so if all the others are ok, that would explain it.
The ckpool restart was 10:16:45 UTC (5-Dec)
The ckdb restart was from 09:49:20 UTC (5-Dec) for about 15 minutes

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Edit:
Payout 386726 sent
4172d6f42e47a820728fa597fdfde2d5967273c0d290be9e5b881f741a44ba8e
and confirmed

[os2sam]

Thank you, now I see, it asked, I did not see it because the bottom of the site is very uncomfortable, move to the top if you can.

And a font size big enough to see without a magnifying glass would be great too

[notabeliever]

I was pointing a gecko compact 12gh miner to the site and get a all rejects. The antrouter mines without problems so what am I missing in my bat file to mine your pool



............seems to be a usb or device error on my side so will be all set when I track it down

Still like my S5 just works

[kano]

I was pointing a gecko compact 12gh miner to the site and get a all rejects. The antrouter mines without problems so what am I missing in my bat file to mine your pool

There's no settings required so you'd have to provide more details to work out what's wrong.
Though, if you misspell your username (case sensitive) or use an invalid mining address then yeah that will cause errors.
As it says on the site:
Registered username or Bitcoin address, followed by a dot '.' or an underscore '_', followed by a worker name.

[innerchaos]

Yay block

[kano]

Yeah that one's timing was a little on the amusing side

Code:

00:09  * kanoi_ stares at the pool ... dude where's my blox
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00:15 < kanoi_> BLOCK!!!

Pool has been over 4PHs most of the day, looking good

[kano]

... and another to make up for that last one being a little over expected average

Well done andrewhaar with 2.2THs!

[DevonMiner]

YEP ... the force has been strong recently  ... nice to see the 'blocks' screen showing two currently being confirmed at the same time - second time in a week   

[kano]

Payout 387004 sent (an hour ago)
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and confirmed

Payout 387053 sent
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and confirmed