US East is showing a similar bottleneck to the original EU (DE) stress test of about 1 TH/sec.
I've modified some of the DNS entries to try to spread some of US East's load onto the other servers. The new server may come online in the next few hours if all goes well.
Topic: [~1000 GH/sec] BTC Guild - 0% Fee Pool, LP, SSL, Full Precision, and More - page 60. (Read 379078 times)
July 10, 2011, 01:37:53 AM
July 10, 2011, 01:25:58 AM
There was a brief (~10 minute) window on US East where it was tossing out idles fairly frequently. It required a quick restart (~5 seconds).
Been smooth since then [although it will now explode after I've said that].
Been smooth since then [although it will now explode after I've said that].
July 10, 2011, 12:55:33 AM
curious if something has changed in the last 24 hours or so or if im just running a streak of bad luck. only getting about 1/10th or 1/5th of my normal shares on use east. read deepbit removed longpolling for ufasoft due to some issue and just wondering if maybe you did the same o.o oh and just got a connection terminated abnormally error as well! :S get those with a ddos normally >_> *sigh* oh well.
odd, switched to a different server(uscentral) and im getting more 'accepted', much closer to what i normally get. was it my timeing or is something wrong with usaeast?
July 10, 2011, 12:50:33 AM
I thought it might be something like that, that's the only logical reason it would make sense, thanks for the clear explanation!
I hope it goes smoothly for you/us
I hope it goes smoothly for you/us
July 09, 2011, 11:48:22 PM
I'm still curious why running 7 VM's on very powerful hardware is better than running one main OS, with one bitcoind and one pushpool, each of which of course would get 7x the resources. It's not like it's spreading out the risk, it's all on one piece of hardware with one network connection right?
Pushpool and bitcoind cannot fully utilize multi-core systems. Parts of them are threaded, but certain aspects can only utilize one thread, and these are the primary sources of miner idles. Additionally, the volume of connections that connect to the servers can cause issues with the linux TCP stack, although a lot of tweaking has been done to eliminate that bottleneck.
By splitting a single server into the following components:
Load Balancer (pfSense)
MySQL Server
Pushpool Servers
We exploit the inability of the programs to FULLY utilize multiple cores by giving them each a smaller load on virtual cores. This also reduces the total number of connections that each pushpool has to loop through when pushing out long polls, which is part of reason occasionally you'll see a 2-3 second miner idle when a long poll is being pushed out. The overhead of XenServer is minimal.
This also means if a pushpool instance freezes (hasn't happened recently), the people connected to the server will simply be routed to a different instance of pushpool. A few seconds of downtime instead of a few hours.
July 09, 2011, 11:00:33 PM
curious if something has changed in the last 24 hours or so or if im just running a streak of bad luck. only getting about 1/10th or 1/5th of my normal shares on use east. read deepbit removed longpolling for ufasoft due to some issue and just wondering if maybe you did the same o.o oh and just got a connection terminated abnormally error as well! :S get those with a ddos normally >_> *sigh* oh well.
July 09, 2011, 10:08:07 PM
I'm still curious why running 7 VM's on very powerful hardware is better than running one main OS, with one bitcoind and one pushpool, each of which of course would get 7x the resources. It's not like it's spreading out the risk, it's all on one piece of hardware with one network connection right?
July 09, 2011, 09:07:08 PM
Sorry for the lack of updates this morning, wake up with a migraine that knocked me back to sleep until about 5 PM.
I'm hopeful that I can get the "super server" mentioned in the header online tonight. It is a priority over the API and Historical Stats, since the pool is growing back at a fairly quick rate, and this new server could likely support somewhere between 3 and 6 TH/sec (hard to know exactly how well it will scale, especially looking at US East's speed).
I got quite a bit of sleep, so I may be up late enough to get both done, although it'll be technically July 11th.
I'm hopeful that I can get the "super server" mentioned in the header online tonight. It is a priority over the API and Historical Stats, since the pool is growing back at a fairly quick rate, and this new server could likely support somewhere between 3 and 6 TH/sec (hard to know exactly how well it will scale, especially looking at US East's speed).
I got quite a bit of sleep, so I may be up late enough to get both done, although it'll be technically July 11th.
July 09, 2011, 07:51:47 PM
Thanks eleuthria, you're a mighty decent person in a world of mediocre people.
July 09, 2011, 05:36:46 PM
I tried inserting the code from the web page but when I tell it to update my profile I get image removed.
How did you get yours to work?
If you read the profile page where you can edit, it tells you need 50 posts in order to be able to have an image in your signature.
July 09, 2011, 05:29:15 PM
any "i'm mining at btcguild with ###" banners?
the guys at http://bleedkira.netau.net/ will give you one. see my signature for an example.
I tried inserting the code from the web page but when I tell it to update my profile I get image removed.
How did you get yours to work?
EDIT: Never mind. Apparently I need 50 posts or it removes images
July 09, 2011, 04:53:04 PM
Just started bringing all of my miners back to BTCG... I renamed a couple and added a few more since the DDoS. My miners that I had with BTCG before everything went down are able to connect, but the ones that I renamed and added are getting "problems communicating." I know in the grand scheme of things, this isn't a huge problem. It seems like the pool isn't accepting new miners? Maybe the pools aren't syncing the login names of the miners. Thought it may be on a delay similar to how the stats are, but it has been about 30 mins and they still aren't connecting. Eitherway, just wanted to make you aware. Great job on getting everything back to operational. Can't wait for the super server!
July 09, 2011, 04:25:09 PM
any "i'm mining at btcguild with ###" banners?
the guys at http://bleedkira.netau.net/ will give you one. see my signature for an example.
July 09, 2011, 05:21:09 AM
any plans to bring back the uswest server in the future?
Edit: nevermind
Edit: nevermind
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New "super server" US West coming up July 10th.
July 09, 2011, 04:06:27 AM
Damm I feel tight now for only donating 5%...
July 09, 2011, 03:01:56 AM
I'm not the biggest miner around by any stretch of the imagination, but I've bumped up from 0.50% to 50.0% for a while.
I use the flex mining proxy, so I don't lose any work, but I'm always happy to wake up finding that my miners have been here all night instead of elsewhere.
I use the flex mining proxy, so I don't lose any work, but I'm always happy to wake up finding that my miners have been here all night instead of elsewhere.
July 09, 2011, 12:49:16 AM
Awknet server (which runs the website) is having some connectivity issues for some people. Pools are still working absolutely fine. Info on my account page may be showing incorrect stats due to sync issues during the connectivity troubles.
UPDATE: Seems to be back in order.
UPDATE: Seems to be back in order.
July 08, 2011, 11:00:06 PM
Not sure what you are doing at the moment, think you are working on the worker stats, but my share totals just went BACKWARDS for both of my workers by about 50 shares total! Within the same block, still going as I type this.
July 08, 2011, 09:17:39 PM
Bumped it up to 50%
July 08, 2011, 09:01:06 PM
We actually have a number of people donating VERY high amounts, some even going as high as 100% for a few rounds. Thank you ALL very much for your support, I had no idea that many of you were serious about upping your donations once we came back online.
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