[CLOSED] BTC Guild - Pays TxFees+NMC, Stratum, VarDiff, Private Servers - page 400.

DutchBrat

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Eleuthria:

I have noticed for some time now that the pool becomes non-responsive after a Longpoll request (not all of them)

Code:

 cgminer version 2.3.1 - Started: [2012-04-07 02:18:56]
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 (5s):0.0 (avg):286.2 Mh/s | Q:473  A:173  R:1  HW:0  E:37%  U:4.10/m
 TQ: 2  ST: 0  SS: 0  DW: 25  NB: 4  LW: 0  GF: 5  RF: 4
 Connected to http://mine.btcguild.com:8332 with LP as user XXXXX
 Block: 00000688823fea93562f7c4b79414535...  Started: [02:50:12]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [P]ool management [G]PU management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 GPU 0:  45.5C 2568RPM | 317.3/286.2Mh/s | A:173 R:1 HW:0 U:4.10/m I: 4
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[2012-04-07 02:58:48] Accepted 00000000.44cdeb58.9d798909 GPU 0 thread 0 pool 0
[2012-04-07 02:58:51] Accepted 00000000.1bcba3f7.4fec6391 GPU 0 thread 0 pool 0
[2012-04-07 02:59:03] Accepted 00000000.013035ea.9785cf58 GPU 0 thread 0 pool 0
[2012-04-07 02:59:04] Accepted 00000000.ad009ed1.34afe995 GPU 0 thread 0 pool 0
[2012-04-07 02:59:22] Accepted 00000000.243fcd6e.d6b010d0 GPU 0 thread 0 pool 0
[2012-04-07 02:59:23] Accepted 00000000.4f8b16e4.f04c1198 GPU 0 thread 0 pool 0
[2012-04-07 02:59:25] Accepted 00000000.6ca6067b.5c3fb1a7 GPU 0 thread 0 pool 0
[2012-04-07 02:59:44] Accepted 00000000.13adfaea.bae2d64d GPU 0 thread 0 pool 0
[2012-04-07 02:59:59] Accepted 00000000.c6816cb8.6a7ad67a GPU 0 thread 0 pool 0
[2012-04-07 03:00:14] LONGPOLL requested work restart, waiting on fresh work
[2012-04-07 03:00:26] Pool 0 not providing work fast enough
[2012-04-07 03:00:35] longpoll failed for http://mine.btcguild.com:8332/LP/, sle
eping for 30s

It doesn't matter if I mine on mine.btcguild.com / mine2.btcguild.com or de.btcguild.com

Any idea what can cause this ? Been going on for 1- 2 weeks as far as I know, can't figure it out.

I ran a test by connecting to Deepbit for half a day and did not observe any problems there.

Much appreciated,

Brat

P.S.

Next Longpoll request it happened again:

Code:

 cgminer version 2.3.1 - Started: [2012-04-07 02:18:56]
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 (5s):336.3 (avg):285.6 Mh/s | Q:587  A:210  R:1  HW:0  E:36%  U:3.98/m
 TQ: 2  ST: 5  SS: 0  DW: 27  NB: 4  LW: 0  GF: 6  RF: 4
 Connected to http://pit.deepbit.net:8332 with LP as user XXXXX
 Block: 00000688823fea93562f7c4b79414535...  Started: [02:50:12]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [P]ool management [G]PU management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 GPU 0:  60.0C 2551RPM | 313.2/285.6Mh/s | A:210 R:1 HW:0 U:3.98/m I: 6
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[2012-04-07 03:09:06] Accepted 00000000.cb7f704f.ac058b87 GPU 0 thread 0 pool 0
[2012-04-07 03:09:08] Accepted 00000000.6509be45.3900e3d1 GPU 0 thread 0 pool 0
[2012-04-07 03:09:22] Accepted 00000000.52efebb9.4cd89e68 GPU 0 thread 0 pool 0
[2012-04-07 03:09:31] Accepted 00000000.b0ed46f3.046c17f1 GPU 0 thread 0 pool 0
[2012-04-07 03:09:43] Accepted 00000000.51624697.6442c294 GPU 0 thread 0 pool 0
[2012-04-07 03:10:02] Accepted 00000000.2bec0ff4.ec1b6a68 GPU 0 thread 0 pool 0
[2012-04-07 03:10:12] Accepted 00000000.4e6865c6.66f5fe07 GPU 0 thread 0 pool 0
[2012-04-07 03:10:18] LONGPOLL requested work restart, waiting on fresh work
[2012-04-07 03:10:22] Pool 0 not providing work fast enough
[2012-04-07 03:11:22] Pool 0 http://mine.btcguild.com:8332 not responding!
[2012-04-07 03:11:22] Switching to http://pit.deepbit.net:8332
[2012-04-07 03:11:23] Accepted 00000000.27c89484.f2310589 GPU 0 thread 0 pool 1
[2012-04-07 03:11:27] Accepted 00000000.cc6c9705.c44ec2dc GPU 0 thread 0 pool 1

eleuthria

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Updated the Idle Email notifications for BTC Guild. Everyone's idle timer has been turned off by default, so you will have to update it to enable the timers again.

The new notification system doesn't require a minimum speed to enable, and should be more reliable for users that barely met the speed requirements previously in place. When one or more of your workers go idle, you will receive an email notification listing the ones currently idle. You will not receive any additional emails until you reset your idle timer.

The original minimum speed requirement was due to how many users set their idle timers, and then would turn their miners off regularly, causing BTC Guild to have many emails marked as spam, and get rejected before ever reaching the users inbox. This new setup should solve it, since there is no reason for a part-timer to constantly turn their idle email notifications back on.

eleuthria

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Quote from: ancow on April 01, 2012, 01:54:45 AM

Quote from: eleuthria on April 01, 2012, 12:14:37 AM

The reason for this is because the pool pays transaction fees when it should to ensure they get processed by other pools, rather than 0 fees and force users to wait until BTC Guild generates a block to include them.

Do you think having an option to do payouts without fees would be worth it? I, for one, don't mind waiting to be included in the next btcguild block, and if it would save you some transaction fees, I'd gladly take it...

Since BTC Guild finds a block roughly ever 1h 30m (subject to variance, could be 10 hours, could be 10 seconds), it's actually easier to just utilize a sendmany transaction and pay the small fee attached to it. Automatic payouts are by far the most preferred way to have users get their BTC out of BTC Guild. It keeps down block chain bloat, avoids paying extra tx fees, and keeps users from storing too much BTC on my servers.

ancow

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Quote from: eleuthria on April 01, 2012, 12:14:37 AM

The reason for this is because the pool pays transaction fees when it should to ensure they get processed by other pools, rather than 0 fees and force users to wait until BTC Guild generates a block to include them.

Do you think having an option to do payouts without fees would be worth it? I, for one, don't mind waiting to be included in the next btcguild block, and if it would save you some transaction fees, I'd gladly take it...

m3ta

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I see.
All you said makes sense. Thanks for the quick reply.

What I was looking for was the best way to keep a specified amount in btcg, checking out the surplus - now try to guess why I'd want that.... Wink

eleuthria

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Quote from: m3ta on March 31, 2012, 09:30:48 PM

Would 'partial payout' be something that you would consider implementing, eleuthria?
'partial' as in, letting users specify the amount they wish to withdraw.

For the time being, payouts are either:
1) "Give me everything right now" - Manual payout (you probably either want to cash in on a big spike, or leave the pool)
2) "Give me a set amount" - Automatic payouts, which are processed every hour.

The reason for this is because the pool pays transaction fees when it should to ensure they get processed by other pools, rather than 0 fees and force users to wait until BTC Guild generates a block to include them.

If you're looking for a -specific- amount, Automatic Payouts would be the preferred method, since they will end up in a 'sendmany' transaction, saving the pool fees and also avoiding bloating the blockchain with large numbers of single transactions. Automatic payouts have SIGNIFICANTLY reduced BTC Guild's footprint in terms of transaction count & size in the blockchain.

A "withdrawal X" payout type will likely be added soon, but it will be a delayed payout (included in the next autopayout batch).

m3ta

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Would 'partial payout' be something that you would consider implementing, eleuthria?
'partial' as in, letting users specify the amount they wish to withdraw.

Joshwaa

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Thanks!!

eleuthria

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Quote from: Joshwaa on March 30, 2012, 07:51:59 AM

Any chance we could get a reset button for miners that would reset them all at one instead of clicking each one?

Reset All button has been added. Depending on how many workers you have, there is a [slight] chance you will have to click it twice, because the shares counters may have been updated between resetting your first worker and your last worker. It's pretty fast, but some people have a LOT of workers.

Joshwaa

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Any chance we could get a reset button for miners that would reset them all at one instead of clicking each one?

twmz

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After additional investigation, it appears that they are not currently blocking btcguild.com. I am still getting this at work because my internal DNS is, for some reason, still returning 174.129.221.183 as the IP address for the domain. ~~I don't know if that is because its caching is broken or because someone intentionally added a rule to block this domain.~~

I believe that OpenDNS was blocking http://bitcoin.sipa.be/ earlier this week (it has since been cleared up). Maybe they blocked a bunch of bitcoin related domains and then unblocked them when they realized the mistake (~~and my company's DNS server is just broken and still caching the IP from when it was blocked~~).

Anyway, sorry for the false alarm.

Update: Well, they are still blocking the domain for DNS lookups originating from my company but not for other people. Not sure why...

From my company's network:

Code:

bash$ dig www.btcguild.com @208.67.222.222

; <<>> DiG 9.4.1 <<>> www.btcguild.com @208.67.222.222
; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 232
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.btcguild.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.btcguild.com. 0 IN A 174.129.221.183

;; Query time: 7 msec
;; SERVER: 208.67.222.222#53(208.67.222.222)
;; WHEN: Thu Mar 29 14:47:58 2012
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 50

From my home network:

Code:

bash$ dig www.btcguild.com @208.67.222.222

; <<>> DiG 9.7.3-P3 <<>> www.btcguild.com @208.67.222.222
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 59550
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.btcguild.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.btcguild.com. 192 IN A 50.31.135.13

;; Query time: 28 msec
;; SERVER: 208.67.222.222#53(208.67.222.222)
;; WHEN: Thu Mar 29 14:49:57 2012
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 50

rjk

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1ngldh

Quote from: twmz on March 29, 2012, 02:32:40 PM

Quote from: eleuthria on March 29, 2012, 01:23:06 PM

Thank you for posting, will email them to figure out why the hell they're trying to block my domain name without any contact/notification. I can say quite definitively that there is nothing on the site that should have caused them to block this.

UPDATE: Sent an email and called their phone lines to try to get the issue moved forward faster.

I'm not less sure what is going on. The screenshot above from from my work computer (we use OpenDNS for our company to also block things like gaming and streaming sites). But I also use OpenDNS at home, and it is not blocked there nor does it appear in their "check a domain" tool.

So maybe this is something else that is specific to my company that is just designed to look like an OpenDNS blocking method? Or maybe OpenDNS offers different blocking rules to enterprises than to home users.

Anyway, this may or may not be a false alarm. Sorry if it was.

I checked when you first posted and it wasn't blocked on OpenDNS here, although I don't use an enterprisey version. There are a number of settings that might affect it within the interface though.

twmz

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Quote from: eleuthria on March 29, 2012, 01:23:06 PM

Thank you for posting, will email them to figure out why the hell they're trying to block my domain name without any contact/notification. I can say quite definitively that there is nothing on the site that should have caused them to block this.

UPDATE: Sent an email and called their phone lines to try to get the issue moved forward faster.

I'm now less sure what is going on. The screenshot above from from my work computer (we use OpenDNS for our company to also block things like gaming and streaming sites). But I also use OpenDNS at home, and it is not blocked there nor does it appear in their "check a domain" tool.

So maybe this is something else that is specific to my company that is just designed to look like an OpenDNS blocking method? Or maybe OpenDNS offers different blocking rules to enterprises than to home users.

Anyway, this may or may not be a false alarm. Sorry if it was.

eleuthria

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Thank you for posting, will email them to figure out why the hell they're trying to block my domain name without any contact/notification. I can say quite definitively that there is nothing on the site that should have caused them to block this.

UPDATE: Sent an email and called their phone lines to try to get the issue moved forward faster.

twmz

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OpenDNS seems to be blocking www.btcguild.com for some reason? Has anyone asked they why?

eleuthria

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Quote from: patica on March 28, 2012, 07:28:00 PM

Hi, eleuthria.
How can I remove idle timer? When I set it to zero, the answer is: Idle timers must be set to at least 10 minutes.
Maybe 999?

Thanks!

You've just solved a big mystery for me [lots of people left the idle timer on even though they shut off their rigs each night]. I've fixed the page, and you can now properly set it to 0 [off].

I'll be pushing another change in this weekend which will re-enable the idle timer for all users (not just those over 1 GH/s), but it will turn into a sort of toggle. Once you receive an idle email, you will have to turn them back on.

patica

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Hi, eleuthria.
How can I remove idle timer? When I set it to zero, the answer is: Idle timers must be set to at least 10 minutes.
Maybe 999?

Thanks!

eleuthria

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An update has been made to the Payout History page to make it easier to use for long time miners. The page will now only list your 10 most recent payouts for BTC and 10 for NMC. A full history log can be accessed clicking the link under each section. This will load a page of comma separated values, which also includes the Transaction ID for the payment.

This can be especially useful for anybody that has had issues with a coin exchange not recognizing all of their deposits, since a Transaction ID can provide them with proof of the time, amount, wallet, and confirmations of any given deposit.

eleuthria

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A few optimizations were done to improve load time on the Earnings History page. After so many difficulty switches, the queries that were originally in place were starting to take longer than they should have.

Using this update [thread has been quiet lately] to remind EU users that you can access a pool server in Germany using de.btcguild.com . This may even be preferable to any users that occasionally have connection issues between themselves and the Chicago based servers.

Nickers

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Quote from: eleuthria on March 15, 2012, 02:56:50 PM

Username would be exactly what is shown on the manage workers screen, like:

eleuthria_mediacenter

Got it to work like this:

Code:

{
"url" : "http://mine2.btcguild.com:8332",
"user" : "Nickers69_1",
"pass" : " "
}
],

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