Topic: [DEAD] DeepBit.net PPS+Prop,instant payouts, we pay for INVALID BLOCKS too - page 305. (Read 1601343 times)

When will the graph section of the website be functional?

Currently using the GUI version of poclbm with long polling. (The new one)
I have actually gotten 4 stale shares since using it, when before long polling I never got one.
Just wondering how normal that is?

Edit: Just checked the console, seems there were some "long poll exceptions". I suppose it could have been because of these?

Fixed

Thanks

Tell me your login name please, i'll check it.

That certainly is one way to do it!  Not bad...

Have a little problem.

Since a couple of days, i cant receive payments, i dunno why, but my maximum value for automatics payments is set to "1", but i have 3btc's in my account.

Font size increase was mostly good. Only the payments section seems to be adversely affected with the date causing it to "double line" the table. But not a big deal so overall the change was good.

Update your miners, please.

Long Polling is working now, so you can download latest poclbm miner and use it with DeepBit.
This new feature will eliminate stale shares and your mining efficiency may rise up to ~1.7% more on average (depends on your GPU speed and luck).

What is Long Polling ? Explained here.

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Font size was increased in some parts of the site. Is it better or worse now ?

Great to see long polling arrive! I will update my GUI this weekend with support for it.

Yes, but it's not supported by official bitcoind, so you can't use it in solo mining yet.

Is long polling useful at all for solo mining?

It's enabled by default. -a parameter is not used with long polling.

ok, it's out, how to enable that? use "-a 10" instead of "-a 5" ?

Thanks for the education!

Web interface feature request:

Purely for aesthetics, on the statistics page would it possible to identify which blocks were submitted by your pool? An asterisk would be sufficient IMHO, but you could just as easily add a "Pool Hit" column with a checkmark if your pool submitted that block.  If the "claiming" of that block goes against the Anonymous nature of the currency, I understand a "no I won't do that" answer.

Sounds great, like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming). Hope it "tightens time" .

What is Long Polling ?

Usually the pool gives each miner some "job" to be done - a range of data that miner will hash one by one in search for the share. This "job" is unique for every block and changes every time when new block appears in bitcoin chain and every time when new transaction is added to possible block by the pool. If someone finds a block and after this you submit your share, calculated from old "job", it's considered stale and is wasted.

Most GPU miners need about 10-30 seconds do try all the possible hashes in this "job" and then should ask the pool for next one, but currently it happens more frequently - about every 10 seconds miner just drops it's current job and asks for next just to be sure that it's fresh and has all new data. Miners do have options to configure this number. The longer is this interval - the higher is your chance to submit stale share.
Someone can reduce their server's load by modifying the miner so it will ask for new job only when current one is finished completely. This way it requests for a new one with bigger intervals, but also with bigger chance that it's work will be futile. They also can decide to take shares not only from this round, but previous one too (which favours CPU miners and reduces reward for GPU ones). This is a nice idea and it's effect on server load is great, but there is something else that can be done for the mining to be more fair...

Long Polling is a special extension to bitcoin RPC protocol that allows pool to notify the miner about new blocks, so it can drop calculations currently in progress and immediately start new ones without loosing time and power. I expect this to cause several percent rise of miner's efficiency.
The first client software with Long Polling support will be the new version of m0mchil's OpenCL miner which is expected to be released soon.

I hope that beta test of this feature will be successfull.

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Also there is a new share counter on each worker's page, tonight it will be enhanced, improved and upgraded :)

Tough 12 hour stretch here 

Thank you, will try the IRC also.

You can also use bot in #bitcoin-dev @ irc.freenode.org
Very useful for calculations :)