Also, how often will the "Workers" menu update to see each rigs stats (Hash rate, etc.)?
Currently, hash rate updates about once every 10 minutes (that will change to 1m in the future)
Everything else is instantaneous e.g. you'll notice that "Last Share" can say 0s.
Okay.
Thanks Kano!!!
Although you deleted the actual post I was gonna reply to, I'll reply to this one instead
The pool 5m hash rate shown will sometimes be pretty erratic when you start mining.
We're changing that (the 1m comment I mentioned above) and that should make it more stable.
However, you can check in cgminer for a more reliable hash rate as long as the driver isn't counting work incorrectly.
Con's releases of cgminer using the drivers he and I wrote are usually pretty accurate
However, if you aren't sure that you are getting the right hash rate based on accepted shares you can check that in cgminer with a simple calculation:
A: * 2^32 / Elapsed
A: is the diff1 accepted shares
Elapsed is how long it has been mining at the pool
If cgminer was started mining at the pool and only been mining there, then that will be correct for your payout hashing speed.
You can also get that from the API summary command.
A: is "Difficulty Accepted"
Elapsed is "Elapsed"
"A:" and "Difficulty Accepted" is what the pool has said - "yep those shares are OK"
Edit: of course a small Elapsed will not be very accurate no matter where you check it, cgminer or the pool.