Topic: [ANN][LTC][Pool][PPLNS][STRATUM] - ltc.kattare.com - burnside's Mining Pool - page 39. (Read 118848 times)

bump for great free pool

Cheers 

Made some significant website performance improvements today.

A couple of DB tables were missing key indexes.  What was a 15-20 second page load on the main Pool Stats page is now ~1 second for me.

Also setup an automated cleanup of the hash stats.  They're only used to generate the graph of the last month of hashing, so for now I'm purging them when they are over 60 days old.

Cheers.

Yeah, no doubt.

Even more demoralizing for me is that there are people out there with 12MH to just throw around.  heh.  I'm gonna have to roll out more gear!

That was my understanding, but it's just kind of demoralizing seeing that number drop by so much in such a short amount of time.

In theory when people do that we solve enough additional blocks for the payout to stay the same over a given time period.  There's still some luck involved, but the more hashing the pool gets, the more stable the payouts should be.  So I guess the more the merrier.    At least until the server falls over.  heh.

Man, the new guy that just brought almost 12MH/s online killed my earnings per block.

I love a happy ending. 

Thanks everyone for replying.

The instructions were crystal clear. It's embarrasing but I was using my id's password and didn't realize the worker had a different password. That is what I get for playing with new ecoins at 1am. 

From my getting started page: "Track down and install reaper version 13b4 or higher.  (Wiki http://wiki.solidcoin.info/wiki/Reaper)"

Soon as I make the transition to cgminer myself, I'll add it to the getting started page. 

Cheers.

On what 13 beta?

Things seem to be chugging along smoothly.  Did you make the necessary config changes to use scrypt instead of sha256?

I have example reaper configs posted on the getting started page.  Just make sure you're on the 13 beta.

Cheers.

I tried this pool for the first time with both Reaper and cgminer, neither could connect to server ltc.kattare.com

Anyone else run into this recently? Is the server up? Or do I just have no idea what I'm doing.

The exact same cgminer works fine with my 5870s on deepbit for BTC, so not sure what is going on.

Glad to see the pool chugging along nicely. Keep up the good work and let's get some blocks!

Ahhh!  haha.  yes, for those issues just PM me.  We'll figure something out.

That is good but I should have been more clear. I do not know my pin so cannot withdraw. PMing you now.

Yeah, that was the part where it was paying all blocks found instantly.  heh.  That wasn't a huge issue because we didn't get any orphans during that time. 

Simplecoin has a few fundamental logic flaws in how it was connecting up generate and immature blocks with the database of winning shares.  To assign a transaction id to a winning share block it was looping through the transaction log oldest to newest and connecting up to the newest winning share from the database.  It also didn't have any checking to see if a winning share already had a transaction id before overwriting it.  What this meant was that if there was more than one generate block in the time between cron runs, it would assign the wrong transaction ids to the wrong winning share blocks.  Since it tracks the confirms by transaction id, this was resulting in orphan blocks getting paid out occasionally, confirm counts being wrong, etc.

I fixed it by reversing the iteration on the transaction log to loop newest to oldest, and inserted checking for if a winning share block already had a transaction id assigned.  Cleaned it up nicely. 

This particular bug doesn't surprise me much.  It's only an issue when you're solving blocks rapidly.  Not really something that you have to deal with in BTC very often.

Hope that all makes sense!

Cheers.

I wondered what was going on, saw a bunch of stuff all go completed at once. Was that part of what was going on?

Ok, you should be able to change your pin now from the account details page, just below the password change section.

Cheers.

Can't right now... lemme look into it.  Might not be all that hard to add to simplecoin.