- Steve Sokolowski
- Archived posts: 4559
- Joined: Aug 27, 2014
Connection limit purposely restored
A while ago, the pool encountered a connection limit of 7500 workers that was unintentionally created by Debian when Chris installed the operating system. It took a while, but Chris was able to resolve the issue and remove the limit, which was unnecessarily low.
Now, however, since the pool is reaching the upper limits of its current capacity, we brainstormed how we can keep things operating reasonably well and decided to purposely re-institute that connection limit, at 10,500. In many ways, it's good that Chris found out about the limit earlier. This change will result in the following behavior:
1. Some miners will be unable to connect, while miners who were already able to connect will remain connected
2. Miners who keep trying will get in eventually until they disconnect on their side
3. Efficiency will rise for all connected miners, because the connection management will be done on another core, keeping CPU usage on the mining server just around 99%
Set your miners with a backup pool. If you can't get a connection slot initially, your miners will mine at the backup pool until they all eventually connect here. That will allow you to make full efficiency at both pools. Since registrations are currently closed, normal attrition will make it more likely that you'll be able to connect over time.
We apologize for this temporary setback. Chris is working as hard as possible to get the business and legal aspects of the pool handled, and we will be able to move forward no later than November 17.
Now, however, since the pool is reaching the upper limits of its current capacity, we brainstormed how we can keep things operating reasonably well and decided to purposely re-institute that connection limit, at 10,500. In many ways, it's good that Chris found out about the limit earlier. This change will result in the following behavior:
1. Some miners will be unable to connect, while miners who were already able to connect will remain connected
2. Miners who keep trying will get in eventually until they disconnect on their side
3. Efficiency will rise for all connected miners, because the connection management will be done on another core, keeping CPU usage on the mining server just around 99%
Set your miners with a backup pool. If you can't get a connection slot initially, your miners will mine at the backup pool until they all eventually connect here. That will allow you to make full efficiency at both pools. Since registrations are currently closed, normal attrition will make it more likely that you'll be able to connect over time.
We apologize for this temporary setback. Chris is working as hard as possible to get the business and legal aspects of the pool handled, and we will be able to move forward no later than November 17.
Last edited Wed Nov 08, 2017 03:31 PM UTC by Steve Sokolowski; edited 1 time(s).
