Bitparking Merged Mining Pool (100G/s, PPS 2.5% fee, BTC, NMC, I0C, IXC, DVC) - page 4.

Schwede65

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Quote from: Schwede65 on January 01, 2012, 08:44:05 AM

Quote from: doublec on January 01, 2012, 08:30:54 AM

Quote from: Schwede65 on January 01, 2012, 08:29:07 AM

last hrs i had a very high stale-rate at the mmpool: ~ 12 % and rising

What miner (and version of that miner) are you using? I was running another process on the pool server for a while which impacted performance quite a bit until I noticed and killed it. This may be a reason for increasing stales today.

KIV's GUI-miner/W7-64 OpenCL - with this miner i had max. 1 % stales, at some pools near to 0 %

Edit: version 2011-07-01

Edit2: let's have a look after the stale-rate from now on Wink

two hrs later: stales < 1 %

it's fine again Grin

787875

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I also have much stales

shares: 3906
Stales: 468

When ixcoin was added the stales were increasing

Schwede65

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Quote from: doublec on January 01, 2012, 08:30:54 AM

Quote from: Schwede65 on January 01, 2012, 08:29:07 AM

last hrs i had a very high stale-rate at the mmpool: ~ 12 % and rising

What miner (and version of that miner) are you using? I was running another process on the pool server for a while which impacted performance quite a bit until I noticed and killed it. This may be a reason for increasing stales today.

KIV's GUI-miner/W7-64 OpenCL - with this miner i had max. 1 % stales, at some pools near to 0 %

Edit: version 2011-07-01

Edit2: let's have a look after the stale-rate from now on Wink

doublec

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Quote from: Schwede65 on January 01, 2012, 08:29:07 AM

last hrs i had a very high stale-rate at the mmpool: ~ 12 % and rising

What miner (and version of that miner) are you using? I was running another process on the pool server for a while which impacted performance quite a bit until I noticed and killed it. This may be a reason for increasing stales today.

Schwede65

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last hrs i had a very high stale-rate at the mmpool: ~ 12 % and rising

in the beginning it was only: ~ 1 %

12 % is too much, if there is no improvement, i have to change the pool

LoupGaroux

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Very impressive, and extremely low stales. Nice job doublec! Thanks.

doublec

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ixcoin has reached block 45,000 and mmpool is now merge mining ixcoins along with bitcoin, namecoin and i0coin.

doublec

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I've added the ability to include a devcoin address when registering. Devcoin merge mining turns on at block 25,000 (currently it's at block 23,874). I don't know if I'll enable it on the pool yet, but if I do and you want devcoins you can re-register and include a devcoin address. Note that bitcoin addresses are valid devcoin addresses so for all existing registered users I can set the devcoin address to their bitcoin address. Then if you want to claim your share you can import the private key from bitcoin into devcoin.

At this stage I'm thinking of enabling merge mining for devcoin, and monitor the effect. If it causes an increase in stales or other issues I'll disable it until my work on reducing pool stales is done then re-enable it.

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Quote from: Bobnova on December 30, 2011, 08:30:10 PM

Phoenix isn't very happy and doesn't seem to be delivering work very well, but I suspect that is an issue at my end.

I'm working on improving the stale count and delivery of work so hopefully this will improve from the pool end soon.

Bobnova

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Capitalizing the first letter of the username fixed it, now it can connect!
Interesting, as the view-your-balances link doesn't care about capitalization at all.

Phoenix isn't very happy and doesn't seem to be delivering work very well, but I suspect that is an issue at my end.

Thanks for the help!

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Quote from: Bobnova on December 30, 2011, 07:45:34 PM

Made an account, but I cannot connector to it with a miner.
If I put the username into the page to check my balances it comes up correctly, but I get an RPC Invalid User error when I try to point a miner at it.

Can you paste or PM me the command line you are using? The username is case sensitive so make sure that is right.

Bobnova

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Made an account, but I cannot connector to it with a miner.
If I put the username into the page to check my balances it comes up correctly, but I get an RPC Invalid User error when I try to point a miner at it.

doublec

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Edit: Avoiding the passwords could have been done with the OpenID like you did/do with your exchange(s) that way you could allow people to update their addresses if they wanted/needed to without changing the name on the account.

Yes, there are a lot of ways of doing it but I've decided with the pools I've run to make it minimal registration and passwords as possible. Even having to register to allow multiple addresses is more than I wanted but it was the easiest way of doing it at the time. It has upsides and downsides, all part of the fun of choosing which pool to go with.

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Does not appear to allow you to register a new name everything is already registered including random letters and numbers just bashed in at the keyboard.

Edit: and why not just allows existing user to go to the register pager and only give them choice of iXcoin address to add or tell them only to add iXcoin address otherwise it rejects the new additions of other addresses.

I just registered one and it worked fine. PM me the name(s) you tried if you want me to investigate, and the error message you got. I can't allow adding an IXcoin address like that otherwise people can try and guess others names and add their own ixcoin address which can't be changed. The cost of me avoiding passwords on the site.

I consider the names to be 'throwaway' so I don't think the burden of registering new ones occasionally to get new features is too great. At some point I'll have the 'dust' in old accounts automatically be sent to the relevant addresses so it won't be lost. I just need to work out the best way of doing that without paying fees for small amounts.

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Quote from: btc_artist on December 27, 2011, 05:05:26 PM

That's quite unfortunate.

I think it's early days for devcoin and it'll improve over time. Probably a good thing since it might avoid the hype/bust cycle of other coins.

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Bitcoin!

Quote from: doublec on December 27, 2011, 04:44:56 PM

Quote from: btc_artist on December 27, 2011, 04:34:29 PM

Have you talked with Unthinkingbit or markm about that?

Yes, there was a discussion in the devcoin thread about it when I asked about source code repositories to contribute.

That's quite unfortunate.

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Quote from: btc_artist on December 27, 2011, 04:34:29 PM

Have you talked with Unthinkingbit or markm about that?

Yes, there was a discussion in the devcoin thread about it when I asked about source code repositories to contribute.

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Quote from: doublec on December 27, 2011, 04:28:33 PM

Quote from: btc_artist on December 27, 2011, 10:44:09 AM

Might try this pool out. Only thing it needs is merged mining with Devcoin. (when that is implemented)

I was keen at one point to implement merged mining in devcoin. But there turned out not to be a stable source repository for it and one of the official clients had an invalid checkpoint making downloading the block chain not possible. It looks difficult to contribute to as a result. If there were a stable repository, accepting pull requests, it'd be more likely to happen.

Have you talked with Unthinkingbit or markm about that?

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Quote from: btc_artist on December 27, 2011, 10:44:09 AM

Might try this pool out. Only thing it needs is merged mining with Devcoin. (when that is implemented)

I was keen at one point to implement merged mining in devcoin. But there turned out not to be a stable source repository for it and one of the official clients had an invalid checkpoint making downloading the block chain not possible. It looks difficult to contribute to as a result. If there were a stable repository, accepting pull requests, it'd be more likely to happen.

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Quote from: kjlimo on December 27, 2011, 10:37:44 AM

Awesome! We should be able to merge mine Ixcoin within the week/year! Do you think you'll add ixcoin to this pool? Or will you setup a new pool for the transition?

Ixcoin is all set to go, just waiting for the chain switch on block. It'll be interesting to see how the extra coin will impact mining with the increase in long polls. I'll monitor that and decide whether to keep it or move it to another pool at that point.

New users of mmpool can register now and add an ixcoin address. It'll be used when it is turned on. Current users will need to re-register under a different name to add an ixcoin address. I'll have to work out some way of dealing with 'dust' in old accounts.

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