New registrations have been disabled until our new server is in Chicago, or a fix to pushpool's scaling is found, whichever comes first. Estimated time of the new server coming online is July 11th-15th (shipping it this week).
I'll be bringing back NL1 and NL2 tomorrow (and pointing their DNS entries back) to alleviate the stress. They're much weaker than the other servers, but its better than nothing, even if it does slow down API/My Account pages.
Topic: [~1000 GH/sec] BTC Guild - 0% Fee Pool, LP, SSL, Full Precision, and More - page 71. (Read 379078 times)
July 04, 2011, 06:42:24 PM
July 04, 2011, 02:11:36 PM
Sent you PM with my IP and userid.
Lost connection to central about 3:30am and still couldn't connect at noon today (CDT). I can't tell the reason as I can ping central up in Dallas from down here in Austin. 1 machine connected to east didn't have any problems. I've moved the others to east for now.
Slept in today so didn't catch this for about 8 hours :-(
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UPDATE: 9pm CDT, still no connections to central server but east working fine.
Lost connection to central about 3:30am and still couldn't connect at noon today (CDT). I can't tell the reason as I can ping central up in Dallas from down here in Austin. 1 machine connected to east didn't have any problems. I've moved the others to east for now.
Slept in today so didn't catch this for about 8 hours :-(
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UPDATE: 9pm CDT, still no connections to central server but east working fine.
July 04, 2011, 02:05:30 PM
Before you guys try freaky shit with your servers maybe you could send out a warning e-mail.
Profits are razor thin for me I don't know about others
Profits are razor thin for me I don't know about others
I'm sorry, the next time we have unplanned server issues I'll make sure to warn everybody in advance.
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Just like I told my tek team the other day... "I need you guys to come up with a list of all unknown issues and prioritize them immediately." They figured out (after a bit) that I was BS'ing 'em to make a point to the big dogs. Unfortunately I think my bosses boss like the idea :-(
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July 04, 2011, 12:19:35 PM
Been a couple connetion issues this morning.
I'm still on board though, crunching away.
I'm still on board though, crunching away.
July 04, 2011, 11:58:24 AM
more coins more problems.
Glad I switched pool before the weekend but I'll be back when the new servers are online
Glad I switched pool before the weekend but I'll be back when the new servers are online
July 04, 2011, 11:48:48 AM
Cmon guys find a block 5.6 million shares already...
Looks like it was just solved, but something must have been goofed up again:
July 04, 2011, 11:41:36 AM
I've switched my 6990 miners back to Deepbit. Sorry man, but your servers are experiencing some significant downtime over here. (Boston, East Coast, USA)
When I log into the My Account page, I get: "Failed to connect to EU DE BTCGuild."
Hopefully this gets resolved soon.
When I log into the My Account page, I get: "Failed to connect to EU DE BTCGuild."
Hopefully this gets resolved soon.
July 04, 2011, 11:19:30 AM
What ads..?
July 04, 2011, 10:36:36 AM
Hashing rate on my miners going down again. So is the total pool hashing rate. Something is wrong again....
Oh well, will be solved as usual
Oh well, will be solved as usual
July 04, 2011, 10:12:50 AM
Cmon guys find a block 5.6 million shares already...
July 04, 2011, 09:17:57 AM
Before you guys try freaky shit with your servers maybe you could send out a warning e-mail.
Profits are razor thin for me I don't know about others
Profits are razor thin for me I don't know about others
I'm sorry, the next time we have unplanned server issues I'll make sure to warn everybody in advance.
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July 04, 2011, 03:27:14 AM
... Failover when a sub-pool crashes takes about 4-6 seconds to kick in, meaning you can point your miners at one IP and it will automatically put them at an internal pool. ...
So it sounds like you are collapsing the multiple names (uswest, useast, uscentral) down to a single address with multiple servers behind it. If this is the case, please post the DNS name of this "one IP" as soon as possible so that we can get our miners reconfigured. (And point that DNS somewhere useful in the meantime... )Thanks for the hard work.
When the new server is ready, all the US pool DNS entries will be pointed towards the new pool. 24 hours after that happens, I will shut off the other pools (US East and US Central). I will post the IP for manual pointing if your computer has an error with resolving the name (DNS caching gone awry).
Regarding today's huge number of issues: I just finished filtering out large portions of the networks that were attacking the servers today. Mostly they were hitting DE1/DE2, but the rules are now on all servers. If you ended up getting caught in the ban, send me a PM or a support email with your IP address and I'll whitelist you.
I know these problems were terrible today, but this is the same kind of attack DeepBit had to deal with a few weeks ago. The problem with DDoS prevention is that mining looks a LOT like a DDoS, especially when a server is having connection trouble. Standard DDoS filtering techniques will end up having an obscene number of false positive bans on a pool server.
July 04, 2011, 03:05:26 AM
Im getting lots of miner iddles. The weird thing is that if I restart the miner they will get work.
All this disconnects are probably why the total output of the pool dropped to 1800. The situation is getting ridiculous.
All this disconnects are probably why the total output of the pool dropped to 1800. The situation is getting ridiculous.
July 04, 2011, 03:02:25 AM
... Failover when a sub-pool crashes takes about 4-6 seconds to kick in, meaning you can point your miners at one IP and it will automatically put them at an internal pool. ...
So it sounds like you are collapsing the multiple names (uswest, useast, uscentral) down to a single address with multiple servers behind it. If this is the case, please post the DNS name of this "one IP" as soon as possible so that we can get our miners reconfigured. (And point that DNS somewhere useful in the meantime... )Thanks for the hard work.
July 04, 2011, 02:57:45 AM
Speed of my workers just halved and total Pool speed also down significantly to around 1800GH/sec
Strange !
It's back up again
Strange !
It's back up again
July 04, 2011, 01:54:33 AM
I've been with btcguild since they were up. After tonite, I'm finally getting around to moving my miners elsewhere. It's a mess now. My GHash is more then half wasted on idles, rejected and disconnects. I hate moving miners around too since I have 30 boxes I need to adjust.
I'll try back at another date, hopefully they'll have everything sorted out by then.
I'll try back at another date, hopefully they'll have everything sorted out by then.
July 04, 2011, 12:37:20 AM
I appreciate the work at the servers 
but I left this pool because of all the issues, worker connection problems, freezing servers and so on..
For me, the change to Deepbit was like a "sit back and relax now" thing because it's all working so smooth now..
but I left this pool because of all the issues, worker connection problems, freezing servers and so on..For me, the change to Deepbit was like a "sit back and relax now" thing because it's all working so smooth now..
I don't want to but I'm thinking about this too
Every time I go backup to Deepbit it works super smooth. I hope BTCGuild can get this kind of efficiency soon July 03, 2011, 11:19:42 PM
Unfortunately, I had to move to another pool as well. I switched over to Eclipsemc.com which is a small pool, but has some really nice features and has been rock solid stable for me. I especially like the SMS notifications of a downed miner. If a miner goes down, they send me a text message.
July 03, 2011, 10:40:31 PM
I appreciate the work at the servers but I left this pool because of all the issues, worker connection problems, freezing servers and so on..
For me, the change to Deepbit was like a "sit back and relax now" thing because it's all working so smooth now..
but I left this pool because of all the issues, worker connection problems, freezing servers and so on..For me, the change to Deepbit was like a "sit back and relax now" thing because it's all working so smooth now..
July 03, 2011, 09:28:44 PM
Servers are looking pretty stable again. This whole issue at least allowed the removal of the pool from the web server, which means a pool issue won't bring the website crashing down as it has in the past. The sync code between servers also received an update after taking down US West, NL1, and NL2, far less aggressive sync attempts (meaning one server having connection issues won't take down another server with it). The downside is it means that rounds may extend a few seconds past their actual solve time (up to a minute). The upside is that if one round is extended due to a sync issue, the following round will be that much shorter.
The new server hardware will hopefully be online around July 11. It's IMPOSSIBLE to effectively stress test this kind of machine to replicate the real world conditions, but the underlying software configuration has been tested with the help of the IRC chatroom. Failover when a sub-pool crashes takes about 4-6 seconds to kick in, meaning you can point your miners at one IP and it will automatically put them at an internal pool. There will still be an EU alternate set of servers, so if a connection issue occurs between you and the US pool, there are still fallbacks on different ISPs.
The new server hardware will hopefully be online around July 11. It's IMPOSSIBLE to effectively stress test this kind of machine to replicate the real world conditions, but the underlying software configuration has been tested with the help of the IRC chatroom. Failover when a sub-pool crashes takes about 4-6 seconds to kick in, meaning you can point your miners at one IP and it will automatically put them at an internal pool. There will still be an EU alternate set of servers, so if a connection issue occurs between you and the US pool, there are still fallbacks on different ISPs.
Thanks for all your hard work @eleuthria, especially over a holiday weekend! (US)
Looking forward to the next server configuration.
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