How come so little action in this thread?
And why are there so many miners here when the efficiency of this pool is so low and with such a high rate of stales!!?
I'm so surprised at this...a waste of hashrate, power, time, etc...wasn't the pool owner supposed to be doing something about this? Or is he still not even around? I'm a bit confused
Probably because everyone left. I've got to assume all those small time guys "set it and forget it" (and there was even one guy who was getting from 50-150 MEGAhash who had for at least a week or more somewhat like 90% stales. Incredible.) Burnside, although around here (and seen online at the LTC forums) stopped responding to this thread a while ago (maybe stratum became too much of a PITA to set up?) I'm sure he's still making a bunch from the guys still mining anyways (they had a hell of a lucky day yesterday too looking at their block stats!)
When I used to mine there I think the pool rate was in the mid 300s to low 400s but now it's down to what, 160ish mhash? It's too bad, I really did like this pool when things were working well!
I suspect a lot of the 50%+ stales situations had to do with the DDoS protection service. Mining looks a whole lot like a DDoS to a protective service. Request after request from the same IP's.
I think someone had asked about vardiff. I hate to say it, but the software definitely does not support it. It'd take way more time than I have to implement it. Sorry.
For everyone that has been waiting patiently for stratum, I apologize. Derringer had it right. I've been buried in my day job and btct.co/litecoinglobal.com responsibilities. The good news is that as of tonight, I have experimental stratum support up and running. If you're logged in, you can get the connection URL from the "Get Started" page.
My test miners using stratum have less than half the stales. Very impressive.
I've also reduced the difficulty a bit. I'm not sure I'll keep it that low, but I figured it's worth a shot.
Cheers.
