Chat archive · 2016-12
gnode · · #363
Still not getting credit for all solo mined blocks of LYC
fugju · · #365
Steve, old GMC Block is still not credited, but new GMC Block is credited...
fugju · · #366
Cant load the Prohash Startpage... All ok?
gnode · · #367
ERROR Site can’t be reached! Others have this problem?
fugju · · #368
Yes
gnode · · #369
Okay then it is not just me. Hopefully Steve or Chris will fix it soon.
gnode · · #370
Start Page is now up!
fugju · · #371
Today solo Block was rewardet.... 3x Block from yesterday are still - not - rewardet...
Chris Sokolowski · · #372
Steve fixed the website this morning. We still don’t know what caused that issue, but restarting the web server fixed it. For the solo mined coins, I have updated the forum post with more information.
fugju · · #373
The question is, get we the blocks reward or are they lost?
Chris Sokolowski · · #374
You definitely will get them. I just need to correct the database, which I am doing now.
fugju · · #375
Chris Sokolowski wrote: You definitely will get them. I just need to correct the database, which I am doing now.If someone going wrong? Nothing was happened/changed by me.
wishxy · · #376
Hi, I’m searching for GAME miner, any help?
fugju · · #377
try to search for algorythm, not for coin
fugju · · #378
Somewhat is wrong, cant connect to server say bfg and on dashboard it shows more connections than i have + false coin
fugju · · #379
It was over... all normal again
Steve Sokolowski · · #380
fugju wrote: Somewhat is wrong, cant connect to server say bfg and on dashboard it shows more connections than i have + false coinHmmm. This might be related to a problem tradewiz found out before. We’ll try restarting soon to see if that fixes the problem.
CritterDog · · #381
Under rejected shares I found this message?? Miner is using an incorrect algorithm. 1 I have never change miners so why would I get this message
has started a new topic: Solo Mining Multiple Coins - How to Get Payout in Mined Coins with No Conversions
has started a new topic: Electricity settings - wattage
Chris Sokolowski · · #384
CritterDog wrote: Under rejected shares I found this message?? Miner is using an incorrect algorithm. 1 I have never change miners so why would I get this messageAre you getting it frequently? The mining server throws the error if the data submitted is not able to be verified as a scrypt hash.
CritterDog · · #385
Chris Sokolowski wrote:No just one share and now it’s gone. I never seen that before. But it seems fine nowCritterDog wrote: Under rejected shares I found this message?? Miner is using an incorrect algorithm. 1 I have never change miners so why would I get this messageAre you getting it frequently? The mining server throws the error if the data submitted is not able to be verified as a scrypt hash.
gnode · · #386
Block Explorers are down as of 5:15 AM ET
Chris Sokolowski · · #387
gnode wrote: Block Explorers are down as of 5:15 AM ETI took the updating offline as I am resolving corruption in the block explorer tables in our database. I’m not yet sure whether I can fix it or if I’ll have to reindex everything, which would take a few days.
excelerator · · #388
115GH @ Prohashing right now, 83GH @ Nicehash!!
Chris Sokolowski · · #389
Unfortunately, I think that’s a bug in the live statistics. Steve says that it is counting miners and hashrate multiple times when multiple workers use the same name. He is going to fix it sometime soon. It only affects the live stats though; all earnings and historical statistics are correct.
has started a new topic: Block explorer reindexing
has started a new topic: Important mining server release coming today
fugju · · #392
Moner Payout threshold: 1.32387197 (default, no fee) Network minimum: 2.00000000
fugju · · #393
ist this an mistake? it was 0,2xmr network min?
Chris Sokolowski · · #394
Good catch - that is a mistake, and I corrected it. That said, Monero transaction fees are the second highest of any coin we offer (only Dash is higher) which is why we have the high payout threshold for the coin.
CritterDog · · #395
Would it be possible to send email notifications like other pools do... Payout received, Miners stopped, ect
CritterDog · · #396
Hs there been re-sets going on with the server? My miners are really acting up.. Not just the A4 but my gridseeds also dropping off line
CritterDog · · #397
I think it was the name change of workers that knocked me off.. I thought we were good as long as the names were diff on each miner. This was not real clear but it looks like we must change names every time we reboot? I lost half my miners until I gave them a new name
Chris Sokolowski · · #398
Thanks for the info. That’s an unexpected consequence, and I don’t want it to happen. I’m going to revert the server to the previous release.
Chris Sokolowski · · #399
And yes, I can add other notification to the pool in the future.
Chris Sokolowski · · #400
The reconnecting miners are causing high CPU load on our servers though since they don’t close the previous connection when they reconnect. That’s why it seems like there’s so many workers.
Chris Sokolowski · · #401
What is your opinion if we drop the old connection for a worker when a new one with the same name connects?
CritterDog · · #402
Yeah I don’t see any problem there. I am back up all looking normal but I did need to give a new name to workers.. As long as I know thats what I have to do no problem if it helps on your end be more stable or better profits
Chris Sokolowski · · #403
Do you know if each board makes a separate connection under the same worker name?
CritterDog · · #404
It did for a while even after changing names but the old name was not producing any shares and it seemed to straighten itself out after a while
CritterDog · · #405
I had old name still showing but only new name was submitting shares
Chris Sokolowski · · #406
Okay, that’s some great information. i think we will make that change to disconnect the old workers upon a new one connecting with the same name.
vinylwasp · · #407
Guys is there any chance you can run some testing on your dev box before making these changes? I’d be happy to point a miner at your dev address for a few hours if you’d like to test these chnages before deploying into prod.
Chris Sokolowski · · #408
We do test these changes, but a misunderstanding of the cause was the fault here. We thought that the excess connections were caused by people with BFGminer because BFGminer creates a connection to every pool in its list but only submits shares to the primary pool. Instead, it was the A4s frequently rebooting and creating new connections each time. Was that a new firmware update that does this? A4s have been on the pool for a while and this only recently occurred. It's these miner-specific bugs that get us because we don't have every hardware configuration to test before release, so it seems inevitable that some configuration will have problems.
CritterDog · · #409
Figures it was the A4s.. I have seen sometimes on reboots a duplicate worker but the duplicate would go away after a bit. Only one of the 2 would submit shares though. The reboot option was added in one of the upgrades. It really is no improvement because usually you get dropped cards which require a power down cycle
citronick · · #410
hi A4 owners, my batch has the latest firmware v.201 and would like to try it out here. So far so good on pure LTC mining only and solo LTC. Over here and NH and elsewhere multi-coin switching - the A4 is all over the place but instead of dropping boards like batch 1 and 2, it just restarts everytime a new coin is mined. So I guess maybe a special port for A4s with longer switching delay timing perhaps? Comments?
vinylwasp · · #411
All the x.x.3 versions of the firmware have a monitor which forces a hard restart. From my experience, the way to avoid the cards not restarting is to give the miner more Mv. This cures the problem for Batch 2. For batch 1, I still need to occasionally power them down at the switch and restart. Not sure what happened tonight but I tried to mine a single coin (still using static diff) and it was ok for a couple of hours but then poolside Mhs crashed. Have moved to CM for the rest of the night (10.30pm here), will check pool status again in the morning.
fugju · · #412
Its not only A4 problem... Its an bfgminer problem 
Steve Sokolowski · · #413
citronick wrote: hi A4 owners, my batch has the latest firmware v.201 and would like to try it out here. So far so good on pure LTC mining only and solo LTC. Over here and NH and elsewhere multi-coin switching - the A4 is all over the place but instead of dropping boards like batch 1 and 2, it just restarts everytime a new coin is mined. So I guess maybe a special port for A4s with longer switching delay timing perhaps? Comments?Does that mean that the boards restart every time a new block comes in on an LTC-only pool?
Steve Sokolowski · · #414
vinylwasp wrote: All the x.x.3 versions of the firmware have a monitor which forces a hard restart. From my experience, the way to avoid the cards not restarting is to give the miner more Mv. This cures the problem for Batch 2. For batch 1, I still need to occasionally power them down at the switch and restart. Not sure what happened tonight but I tried to mine a single coin (still using static diff) and it was ok for a couple of hours but then poolside Mhs crashed. Have moved to CM for the rest of the night (10.30pm here), will check pool status again in the morning.When did you have the problem? Read the "important mining server release" thread and see if that was around the time.
vinylwasp · · #415
Steve Sokolowski wrote:i thought it was after this time but then I always forget you’re 16 hours behind me. It happened around 8pm my time Wednesday which would be 2am EST Wednesday. Does that conincide with your change window?vinylwasp wrote: All the x.x.3 versions of the firmware have a monitor which forces a hard restart. From my experience, the way to avoid the cards not restarting is to give the miner more Mv. This cures the problem for Batch 2. For batch 1, I still need to occasionally power them down at the switch and restart. Not sure what happened tonight but I tried to mine a single coin (still using static diff) and it was ok for a couple of hours but then poolside Mhs crashed. Have moved to CM for the rest of the night (10.30pm here), will check pool status again in the morning.When did you have the problem? Read the "important mining server release" thread and see if that was around the time.
Chris Sokolowski · · #416
The only thing that happened around that time is that I had to restart the mining server, but there were no changes in the code compared to before the restart. About 8 hours before that we had the unsuccessful release, which I reverted. So the mining server code is the same as it has been for the past week.
vinylwasp · · #417
Chris Sokolowski wrote: The only thing that happened around that time is that I had to restart the mining server, but there were no changes in the code compared to before the restart. About 8 hours before that we had the unsuccessful release, which I reverted. So the mining server code is the same as it has been for the past week.
vinylwasp · · #418
That must have been it Steve. I just happened to be watching it and thought it was related so moved them to play it safe. I’ll give the c=gamecredit another run later. Trying to see if staying on a single coin has that much affect on my profits. I can see that some of the profitable scrypt coins have less that 1 Gh networks which is probbaly why I sometimes see my miners mine them for a second or two and I’m trying to workout if those short term coin switches are worth the downtime they cost in terms of card restarts. TBH, you’ve got all the data across all A4 miners so can probably answer that better than I can.
vinylwasp · · #419
Oops, sorry Chris.
vinylwasp · · #420
One other thing, per miner stats are taking a long time to appear. Most of my miners have been sittings on ’calculating hashrate’ for over an hour.
CritterDog · · #421
I
vinylwasp wrote: One other thing, per miner stats are taking a long time to appear. Most of my miners have been sittings on ’calculating hashrate’ for over an hour.My A4 does the same thing..It always says calculating hash rate if I set to mine just one coin
vinylwasp · · #422
Ok, it’s done it again, my poolside hashrate has dropped to less than 10% of it’s normal rate. I’ve never seen that happen before even when the cards are flapping like wild. The only way I can imagine this to be ok, is if all the miners have restarted at the same time, and that’s never happened before.
vinylwasp · · #423
Ahh, now they’ve all swung over to thier secondary. Network problems?
vinylwasp · · #424
It’s all back to normal now. That looked like a network problem to me. Was it just me and therefore my end or was there an issue on your side?
vinylwasp · · #425
Seems to be swinging back and forth between my primary and secondary pool.
Chris Sokolowski · · #426
I’m investigating what’s happening. The A4s are creating a lot more connections than they used to, probably because of a firmware update.
vinylwasp · · #427
There haven’t been any new updates since mid Nov Chris.
Chris Sokolowski · · #428
Is there some configuration change that everyone’s made? I don’t ever remember them opening new connections so frequently and not closing old ones.
vinylwasp · · #429
I’m running the same config I have for the past 2-3 weeks, e.g., n=100-B1 h=50 d=65536
Chris Sokolowski · · #430
I’m going to see if its some new user causing problems.
vinylwasp · · #431
If they’re switching to their secondary, that would indicate a connectivity issue perhaps?
vinylwasp · · #432
That might do it. An unintentional DoS. Seen those quite a few times.
Chris Sokolowski · · #433
Running a networking test from the mining server right now
vinylwasp · · #435
Can you post the results once you have them Chris. I’ve moved them again until you can get a handle on this.
Chris Sokolowski · · #436
I haven’t found any connectivity problems between our servers and the internet. I am looking to see if the mining server is doing something unusual. The per-miner status would show "calculating" hashrate if the miners kept reconnecting and didn’t have enough shares on one connection to calculate a hashrate.
galixxx · · #437
I had 50c earnings in the last 12 hours with roughly 100MH/s. Seems to be low to me? Anyone else observed that behaviour as well?
Chris Sokolowski · · #438
Have you been disconnecting a lot? I’m trying to diagnose the issue.
Chris Sokolowski · · #439
I’m making a change right now. The disconnections seem to have started around the same time as I had to reindex all the block explorers. I wonder if some system overload is causing the problem. I’ve been monitoring system resources and I don’t see anything overloaded, but I’m going to reduce the speed of indexing to see if it makes a difference.
galixxx · · #440
Chris Sokolowski wrote: Have you been disconnecting a lot? I’m trying to diagnose the issue.How can I see that regarding the disconnections? I am not at home currently.
Chris Sokolowski · · #441
Unfortunately, I think you would only know based upon looking at the logs of your miners.
gnode · · #442
It looks like some solo mined blocks (moneycoin) are not being payed out. Last two days this has been a problem.
gnode · · #443
Yesterday I solo mined 32 blocks of moneycoin but only got credit for 30? Each mining session I lose a few blocks.
has started a new topic: Status as of Thursday, December 8
galixxx · · #445
Can’t change my bitcoin payout addreass at the moment. I get the message: "An unexpected exception occurred. The issue has been logged."
fugju · · #446
Sometimes is wrong with server. They restart my miner sometimes to zero... And because this no block found since 20h
CritterDog · · #447
Don’t know what has changed but I noticed my A4s are now finding many more blocks..
Steve Sokolowski · · #448
Thanks for these bug reports. Chris will look into the issues and get back to everyone soon.
vinylwasp · · #450
Steve Sokolowski wrote: Thanks for these bug reports. Chris will look into the issues and get back to everyone soon.If you have any of your system involved in the re-indexing on virtualised infrastructure, remember to watch the hypervisor/host resources more closely than the guests, especiially disc I/O on those big DB jobs. SSD’s generally help read speed more than write too..
vinylwasp · · #451
PS: Running sweet today
Chris Sokolowski · · #452
Everything we run is virtualized, but as far as disks, the database and each of the coin VMs have their own dedicated RAIDs of SSDs. I’m not sure it’s virtualization as much as just one process overloading the database. That said, the number of connections is still an issue, even if it isn’t affecting performance.
fugju · · #453
CritterDog wrote: Don’t know what has changed but I noticed my A4s are now finding many more blocks..i found less blocks
Chris Sokolowski · · #454
fugju wrote:And that’s why you join a pool.CritterDog wrote: Don’t know what has changed but I noticed my A4s are now finding many more blocks..i found less blocks
fugju · · #455
something is wrong with gamecredit solo mining
vinylwasp · · #456
Chris, my feedback is that the pool seems to be the most stable I’ve seen. My A4 miners are humming along at the best average hashrates I’ve seen them run at over 24 hours and profits are back to normal or better even. Whatever you did to throttle the re-indexing job seems to be doing the trick. Cheers
galixxx · · #457
Chris, what am I doing wrong with the change of my BTC address. I still get the error message and can’t change it.
Chris Sokolowski · · #458
Galixx, I will look into that. It is likely an issue on our servers preventing the website from validating the wallet address.
Chris Sokolowski · · #459
Fugju, are you sure that you just aren’t finding any blocks because Gamecredit is so difficult?
Chris Sokolowski · · #460
Vinylwasp, glad to hear that your’re working well and that the number of connections has nothing to do with connection quality.
fugju · · #461
Chris Sokolowski wrote: Fugju, are you sure that you just aren’t finding any blocks because Gamecredit is so difficult?I found every day 1-3 Blocks at the same Difficulty about 2000-3000
fugju · · #462
And since the server update i found nothing... 1 day before update i have many luck and found at Diff 3000-4500 whole 6 blocks (6.12). day after 2 Blocks (7.12) and since 50hours nothing...
fugju · · #463
i try many restarts and reboots. change the workername, make longpool on / off and have mine another coin few hours and change back...
fugju · · #464
if it helps -> i use bfgminer 5.4.2 on Alcheminer 256 . I have two of this miner with 500mh/s at pool, its still good enough for gamecredit
galixxx · · #465
Chris Sokolowski wrote: Galixx, I will look into that. It is likely an issue on our servers preventing the website from validating the wallet address.Thank you Chris!