Topic: [4+ EH] Slush Pool (slushpool.com); Overt AsicBoost; World First Mining Pool - page 1043. (Read 4382653 times)

This block is weird: I also have my reward an order of magnitude below normal.

Quick question, is this normal, considering my average?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v93/amazingfunksta/bitcoin.jpg

Odd how it's normally 0.07 to 0.08 but then one round it was randomly 0.002.

Thanks,

 good to know, thx

Best indicator is "Current server load (60 sec average):" on stats page. It is usually around 800-1000rq/s. When it fall to 50 or something, then server is down .

It is usually HTTP 50x status or something like this, so it can be anything on pool side. From internal network troubles, to bitcoind deadlocks.

thanks for being on top of things slush.

;>

So... I was actually right when I said I was really unlucky to start mining and the server to go down immediately after that yesterday? and apparently today too.
I saw that but I thought maybe it's just a bug or something, because I was also getting alot of "Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC", I didn't expect the server to be down for maintenance right when I started mining. Then I played with bypassing the router and port fw and GUIMiner started working, by coincidence apparently. Heh...
It would be nice to have a "server online/offline" on the website.

Yes, three days, same time, it is really strange. Pool is up again, it recovered itself. I'm in discussion with server provider if there is everything OK on internal network...

Two blocks were invalid yesterday, so twice unconfirmed reward drop for those blocks. Those invalid blocks were not caused by pool problems, but there were more block found in network at same time (for example pool block 4706 was found in the same second as another block which was accepted by bitcoin network).

this has happened every day for the last three days
right around 6AM EST.

I know slush is aware of it because I have brought it to his attention every day for the last three days. Not sure what the issue is.

Too much server down..  yesterday & today (just now)

Any attack on pool?

@andy90
It's not you it's the server. See the part where it says
"Server temporarily down for maintenance"

Yea.

About this @Slush:

I have now TWICE seen Total Reward BTC drop. This morning I had 0.82xxxx, I refreshed an hour later during the maintenance, and now there are only 0.81507997  BTC total.

Is this unconfirmed blocks getting suddenly invalidated or is something lost during maintenance?

Today the error is back (with port forwarding disabled)

Running command: poclbm.exe --user=xxxxxx  --pass=xxxxxxx -o mining.bitcoin.cz -p 8332 -d0 --verbose -v -w128
Listener for "Default" started
Listener for "Default": 23/05/2011 11:03:12, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
Listener for "Default": 23/05/2011 11:03:18, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
Listener for "Default": 23/05/2011 11:03:24, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
Listener for "Default": 23/05/2011 11:03:30, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
Listener for "Default": 23/05/2011 11:03:36, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
Listener for "Default": 23/05/2011 11:03:45, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
Listener for "Default": 23/05/2011 11:03:54, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
Listener for "Default": 23/05/2011 11:04:00, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
Listener for "Default": 23/05/2011 11:04:06, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
Listener for "Default": 23/05/2011 11:04:12, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
Listener for "Default": 23/05/2011 11:04:18, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
Listener for "Default": 23/05/2011 11:04:27, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
Listener for "Default": 23/05/2011 11:04:33, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
Listener for "Default": 23/05/2011 11:04:40, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
Listener for "Default": 23/05/2011 11:04:46, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
Listener for "Default": 23/05/2011 11:04:50, Server temporarily down for maintenance
Listener for "Default": 23/05/2011 11:04:56, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
Listener for "Default": 23/05/2011 11:05:02, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
Listener for "Default": 23/05/2011 11:05:13, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
Listener for "Default": 23/05/2011 11:05:19, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
Listener for "Default": 23/05/2011 11:05:20, Server temporarily down for maintenance
Listener for "Default": 23/05/2011 11:05:26, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
Listener for "Default": 23/05/2011 11:05:30, Server temporarily down for maintenance
Listener for "Default": 23/05/2011 11:05:35, Server temporarily down for maintenance
Listener for "Default": 23/05/2011 11:05:41, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
Listener for "Default": 23/05/2011 11:05:47, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC

turning on port fw doesn't fix the problem

I am specifically requesting a payout button for the "confirmed rewards". As i set my threshold to 4.60 while my unconfirmed reward was 4.62. But i never even imagined that we would get an invalid block. So, every one of my rewards got confirmed, but never crossed the threshold.

Now i can't withdraw it. And i have switched to another pool for for a bit thus i can't mine. And even if i do, waiting for 100 confirms which could take more than 12 hours is....

Nvm, fixed.

Sweet! Thanks for clearing it up. Glad to help out the pool!

Yes that's what it means

On the user stats page where it shows us our current workers; Does the 'Found Block' Column mean that one of my workers solved a block and earned the pool 50BTC?

http://imigi.tk/3lefzx/2.png

Yes use the address in the bitcoin client. The wallet.dat is only accessible to your own computer, and it's vital you don't give others direct access to it because they could take your coins.

Yes
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I also have a question about the wallet thing I just started mining yesterday my self. Should I only use the address in the bitcoin program or can I put the address to the wallet.dat in the bitcoin folder?

Thanks for your replies.

I have disabled port forwarding and everything seems fine now. Does GUIMiner save logs somewhere so I can tell you the exact time or should I wait until it happens again (if) and take a note of it?  I only mine during the day, so maybe only tomorrow.