I posted this in https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=26727.300 not knowing it was for BTC only. (why not say this in the title? 
) So here again
Is the withdrawal limit 10 for PPC ? The Reward System page says so but I am not sure if the page is up-to-date, because it also says the limit for LTC is 1 (in contradiction with the red statements in My Account page).
I think because the miner-difficulty is too high mining LTC on Coinotron has a higher rejection (stale) rate than somg of the other pools. Stale is 5+%.
Coinotron LTC pool finds a block every ~11.8 minutes. My miner generate a share every 1.7 min (~160kH/s). When the pool finds a block and "close the door for the round", I have have a probability of 1.7min /2 / 11.8min = 5.5% not being able to register the work I have done with the pool. I measured the actual stale rate in 12 hours and it is 5.2%, in good agreement iwth my estimate.
Can user set the difficulty? It is 198 now. I would like to get the difficulty 60 or lower.
Thanks.
When network finds a block, pool immediately sends new work to all miners. That is how stratum works. There may be delays between new block and miners receiving new work and starting to mine. Those delays are responsible for stales, not share difficulty. ) So here again Is the withdrawal limit 10 for PPC ? The Reward System page says so but I am not sure if the page is up-to-date, because it also says the limit for LTC is 1 (in contradiction with the red statements in My Account page).
I think because the miner-difficulty is too high mining LTC on Coinotron has a higher rejection (stale) rate than somg of the other pools. Stale is 5+%.
Coinotron LTC pool finds a block every ~11.8 minutes. My miner generate a share every 1.7 min (~160kH/s). When the pool finds a block and "close the door for the round", I have have a probability of 1.7min /2 / 11.8min = 5.5% not being able to register the work I have done with the pool. I measured the actual stale rate in 12 hours and it is 5.2%, in good agreement iwth my estimate.
Can user set the difficulty? It is 198 now. I would like to get the difficulty 60 or lower.
Thanks.
Only disadvantage of high share difficulty is rougher estimations of your miners hashrate.
So if i am working on a share and a new block is found before my share gets accepted doesn't that means that i ll receive a new job and start over?
I mean my half completed job will not be submitted if you relay to me the new job fast enough so it will not be considered as a stale but still it is a half finished job and wasted hashing calculations for me.
I think that was the point of mhps's post and it is my concern as well but maybe i am still missing something here...
