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[CryptoBuddha]

3 hours ago there was no monster in the stats tab and at last it's caged in there forever)))   So glad we finally did it, over 700 % though...

[CryptoBuddha]

I'm probably gonna look the fool, but I'm guessing (and it is a guess, although an "educated" one) we're going to see an announcement on the A7 come Monday. Canaan's tweet and news release this morning rather point to that.

I could be wrong, of course...probably am...but heck, there's no fun in not blindly speculating... 

Yeah these words of Canaan's CEO are reassuring somehow

N.G. ZHANG
Posted on
September 29, 2016

Canaan is now three years old. We are a 100 person team that has outlasted several competitors. We cannot stop pushing innovation forward or be distracted with anything less than bringing the best high quality products with the best service to the world.
I know most of you are asking, “When is your next AvalonMiner coming out?” You will hear from us very soon…

[Sierra8561]

I'm probably gonna look the fool, but I'm guessing (and it is a guess, although an "educated" one) we're going to see an announcement on the A7 come Monday. Canaan's tweet and news release this morning rather point to that.

I could be wrong, of course...probably am...but heck, there's no fun in not blindly speculating... 

Yeah these words of Canaan's CEO are reassuring somehow

N.G. ZHANG
Posted on
September 29, 2016

Canaan is now three years old. We are a 100 person team that has outlasted several competitors. We cannot stop pushing innovation forward or be distracted with anything less than bringing the best high quality products with the best service to the world.
I know most of you are asking, “When is your next AvalonMiner coming out?” You will hear from us very soon…

Typical answer from the great question.

[kano]

Anyone wondering ... CKDB crashed 12 minutes after that block and is restarting (automatically)
Looks like I've got a bug I need to track down.
Of course nothing is lost, it's just a normal CKDB restart after the crash ... restart will finish in about 10 minutes.
No miners are affected.

That's what happens when you suddenly awaken a sleeping sentient entity... 

Oddly - I woke up, for no obvious reason, a few mins before the block ...

The reward generation code is what crashed - I'm looking into it now.
Just need to fix it before that payout comes due

Feels like you have an margin failure in the code, since 700%+ duration is so rarely seen, if ever. I'd rather it fails on condition (lim -> 0).

No, it's a line of code with a null value that's (years) old and I've no idea how it ever worked to start with
(It's data that doesn't matter - a field that is always blank, but somehow the code doesn't seem to mind that it's null)
Still trying to discover why it worked fine in all but the latest code.
Maybe being half awake is dulling my senses
I'll do a restart again once it's sorted out but that may be a while off yet.

I'll do a CKDB restart at ~22:45pm UTC in roughly 1.5hrs (the shift that should complete around then)
No miners will be affected.
Web site/api will show lotsa ? for about 10 minutes.

It's the bug fix for the reward calculation code that crashed.
Just in case anyone was worried, it didn't affect anything in the past - it's 3 as yet unused text fields that are always blank, but for some reason being null (the bug) never crashed the code before. They are now blank and not null.
I've also added a check for anything else being null that may have unexpectedly worked in the past - it now spits out a warning about where in the code it was null, so I can fix any others that might have been hiding for the past year or 2
Check the git commit log if you are curious.

[firetreeactual]

Cool, man... 

[kano]

CKDB restart done. All OK.
22:50:53 to 23:00:13 UTC (9mins 20secs)
Payout/Reward/Shift data processed for the block and showing correctly.

[clgrissom3]

CKDB restart done. All OK.
22:50:53 to 23:00:13 UTC (9mins 20secs)
Payout/Reward/Shift data processed for the block and showing correctly.

Thanks Kano!  It's almost time to start Block Friday! 

[Biodom]

Anyone wondering ... CKDB crashed 12 minutes after that block and is restarting (automatically)
Looks like I've got a bug I need to track down.
Of course nothing is lost, it's just a normal CKDB restart after the crash ... restart will finish in about 10 minutes.
No miners are affected.

That's what happens when you suddenly awaken a sleeping sentient entity... 

you are joking, but when you are running several miners, spooky things do happen from time to time, although these can be easily explained (probably) by electrical engineers, which I am not.
From the studies in biology, though, there are ALWAYS emergent properties in complex systems that cannot be easily predicted by individual units properties and/or behavior.

[kano]

Ah well ... a close one escaped a short while ago

Code:

[2016-09-30 11:30:30.777+10] Share (432151) ok Diff 99.7% (240590099975/241227200230.0) WHMining Pool 251120145548.0 251G 104.10%

[kano]

Block by bitcoinmaster

[Newko]

Holy cow! I've been buried in work all this week so I've had no time to check the board or stats & I see we had a 715% block! Yowza! Kinda like I slept through an earthquake, but glad I missed all the "fun".

Sorry for this little bit of OT: Today is my last day of work & there is no way I'm gonna finish everything I wanted and I have a "table or view does not exist" oracle error coming from a really old app that I tried to migrate to a new server (and no source code - Ugh!) & I checked all the tables & views and they DO exist so it's making me crazy. Well, I'm just gonna have to leave that puzzle to the new guy...he's younger, smarter, & better looking than me (the punk - hahaha ) so he'll figure it out.

Ok, we got one in the basket this morning so let's get a couple more and start the climb back to green!
Mine on 

[Xircom]

Wonder if something is wrong with KANO Vs. MRR.
I have tried 4 different rigs now, both EU and US and many different ports and none of them works.
Is MRR also banned now ? or is something different ?
Right now im trying port 443, since this is the only port I get just a little response from.

[kano]

Wonder if something is wrong with KANO Vs. MRR.
I have tried 4 different rigs now, both EU and US and many different ports and none of them works.
Is MRR also banned now ? or is something different ?
Right now im trying port 443, since this is the only port I get just a little response from.

No idea - I don't ban anything MRR directly, but I guess MRR is all direct from miners to the pool, not via a proxy, so it would depend on the miner IP if they were actually banned.

Anyone who points a CPU/GPU miner at the pool get's their IP banned, and anyone who tries to ddos the web or run scripts doing multiple logins to the web site gets banned also.

lastly, if they mine via a Tor or a public VPN, I block a lot of that since adding latency on purpose means I don't want those miners on the pool either and anything problematic that shows up on a VPN will get that VPN IP banned and thus anyone else using the same VPN will get blocked.

[clgrissom3]

Block by Jays86!  This is his 42nd Kano block and our 2nd of the day! 

[firetreeactual]

Wow...how things have changed in just a few years. The 1K btc that I lost at Mt Gox was entirely mined on an HP laptop via the cpu. The first six months of my return to mining was done with a Radeon gpu (this was before the S2). Either of those approaches now is somewhat ludicrous, unless one's intent is simply to burn electricity, or satisfy an obsessive urge, or one is content to simply solo mine with virtually no chance of success.

Anyway...


Mine on...

[firetreeactual]

Sorry for this little bit of OT: Today is my last day of work & there is no way I'm gonna finish everything I wanted and I have a "table or view does not exist" oracle error coming from a really old app that I tried to migrate to a new server (and no source code - Ugh!) & I checked all the tables & views and they DO exist so it's making me crazy. Well, I'm just gonna have to leave that puzzle to the new guy...he's younger, smarter, & better looking than me (the punk - hahaha ) so he'll figure it out.

Best to you, friend. New job, or like some of us old(er) diamond dwarfs (miners), retired? 

[Xircom]

What the F... is going on. Keep mining peeps. 38PH is not enough, we need minimum 45PH to keep those BTC rolling.
Been struggeling with MRR the whole day and had 4 rig rentals cancelled since they could not connect to KANO.
2 x EU and 2 x US.
Just tried again with a small rental of 30th for 48 hours to see if I could get this damn things to work. Used MRR for years now and never had these issues before.
Crank those miners up in full speed peeps, we need the hash 

[Sierra8561]

What the F... is going on. Keep mining peeps. 38PH is not enough, we need minimum 45PH to keep those BTC rolling.
Been struggeling with MRR the whole day and had 4 rig rentals cancelled since they could not connect to KANO.
2 x EU and 2 x US.
Just tried again with a small rental of 30th for 48 hours to see if I could get this damn things to work. Used MRR for years now and never had these issues before.
Crank those miners up in full speed peeps, we need the hash 

I'm cranked and mining.

[cybermods]

My garage is humming and so is my shed. Keep calm and mine on 

[wmabern]

I would love to add some more hash power, but I'm maxed at ~50TH or so. No more renting for me. Too much uncertainty and no return on investment.
I do certainly wish we could add 5 or 6 more PH to the pool. Sad to see it so low. But on the bright side, I'm getting a higher block %. But these one or two block days - or no block days! are painful. Hope to see things improve soon!