Poor Connection

Gentlemen,
I seem to be getting quite a lot of Pool 0 is issuing work for an old block messages. I am using BFG miner 5.1/64 bit with zeusminer.
On other pools I do not seem to have the issue.
Any Idea's ?

[2015-04-29 19:34:14] Accepted 003a2fb8 ZUS 0cbe Diff 17m/15m
[2015-04-29 19:34:15] Pool 0 is issuing work for an old block: c4bc55f18a011d31
935fd390ffc757ea6c9fa2d65a5b543c18e720cfb87a2fe6
[2015-04-29 19:34:15] Accepted 000b6816 ZUS 0adm Diff 87m/15m
[2015-04-29 19:34:16] Accepted 0012e04b ZUS 0afj Diff 52m/15m
[2015-04-29 19:34:18] Network difficulty changed to 1 (13.91Mh)
[2015-04-29 19:34:18] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
[2015-04-29 19:34:18] Pool 0 is issuing work for an old block: c4bc55f18a011d31
935fd390ffc757ea6c9fa2d65a5b543c18e720cfb87a2fe6
[2015-04-29 19:34:20] Pool 0 caught up to new block
[2015-04-29 19:34:22] Pool 0 is issuing work for an old block: c4bc55f18a011d31
935fd390ffc757ea6c9fa2d65a5b543c18e720cfb87a2fe6
[2015-04-29 19:34:22] Accepted 00336e49 ZUS 0bgj Diff 19m/15m
[2015-04-29 19:34:22] Accepted 00392c63 ZUS 0ajz Diff 17m/15m
[2015-04-29 19:34:23] Pool 0 is issuing work for an old block: ff816ccf6cceff1f
993e87fd828f2f6c465dcc1bd15603f5e6c3a20ee8fc605d


[2015-04-29 19:47:36] Rejected 0027f16d ZUS 0bmx Diff 25m/7m (Duplicate share)

[2015-04-29 19:47:38] Rejected 00033e3f ZUS 0arw Diff 308m/7m (Duplicate share)

[2015-04-29 19:47:39] Rejected 00266a15 ZUS 0bgq Diff 26m/7m (Duplicate share)

[2015-04-29 19:47:40] Rejected 0077bde8 ZUS 0bms Diff 8m/7m (Duplicate share)
[2015-04-29 19:47:42] Rejected 0048ba9e ZUS 0aqc Diff 13m/7m (Duplicate share)

[2015-04-29 19:47:42] Rejected 0064f857 ZUS 0bzb Diff 9m/7m (Duplicate share)
[2015-04-29 19:47:43] Rejected 00453210 ZUS 0bvp Diff 14m/7m (Duplicate share)

[2015-04-29 19:47:43] Rejected 007823b4 ZUS 0aga Diff 8m/7m (Duplicate share)
[2015-04-29 19:47:43] Rejected 00423795 ZUS 0ant Diff 15m/7m (Duplicate share)

Is this happening right when you're starting up? If so, you'll get six of these stale blocks before you start mining useful work. It should only last 30s or less.

The purpose of this is to test your miner so that it can be assigned the coins that are most profitable for it. If this is happening later during mining, let me know and I'll take a look.

Here is the BFG miner screen after 20 minutes of mining.

[2015-04-29 20:10:49] Pool 0 is issuing work for an old block: a43698ef5e4b7924
e1287d13b1341b97b640befd46b808ba57025e215a4c659
[2015-04-29 20:11:04] Network difficulty changed to 1 (13.71Mh)
[2015-04-29 20:11:04] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
[2015-04-29 20:11:05] Pool 0 is issuing work for an old block: a43698ef5e4b7924
e1287d13b1341b97b640befd46b808ba57025e215a4c659
[2015-04-29 20:11:08] Found block for pool 0!
[2015-04-29 20:11:08] Accepted 000007bb ZUS 0cgw Diff 33/250m
[2015-04-29 20:11:08] Network difficulty changed to 1.56k (11.18Gh)
[2015-04-29 20:11:08] New block detected on network before longpoll
[2015-04-29 20:11:08] Pool 0 is issuing work for an old block: a43698ef5e4b7924
e1287d13b1341b97b640befd46b808ba57025e215a4c659
[2015-04-29 20:12:13] Accepted 0001dbea ZUS 0ahk Diff 537m/250m
[2015-04-29 20:12:20] Accepted 0000e9ad ZUS 0aam Diff 1/250m
[2015-04-29 20:12:59] Network difficulty changed to 1 (11.29Mh)
[2015-04-29 20:12:59] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block

Thanks for the report. I'll look into this. I noticed that something was odd about your miners earlier, but didn't know what - these logs will help a lot.

I'll get back to you as soon as I know more.

Hi rayday,

Could you try now and see if there is a problem connecting?

If there is, could you turn on debug mode and copy what you see? In cgminer at least, I know that there are several debug modes that print out a lot of information. If you could turn on as much debug information as you can, that would be great.

Thanks,

-Steve

Chris,
I am out of town. I will turn the miner back on when I return.
Ray

The solution to this is to make sure longpolling is enabled, and scan time should be 1. Even so, you will get these from time to time by virtue of the quick coin switches ProHashing does. Your rig with ZEUS ASICs should be pretty good about switching coins pretty quickly though.

The solution to this is to make sure longpolling is enabled, and scan time should be 1. Even so, you will get these from time to time by virtue of the quick coin switches ProHashing does. Your rig with ZEUS ASICs should be pretty good about switching coins pretty quickly though.

I'm going to create a task in our bug system to create a page with a listing of all these tips for bfgminer users. Thanks to your help, future users will probably find it a lot easier to set things up. Thanks again for figuring this one out!

Steve Sokolowski wrote:I'm going to create a task in our bug system to create a page with a listing of all these tips for bfgminer users. Thanks to your help, future users will probably find it a lot easier to set things up. Thanks again for figuring this one out!

Heh. I was looking for the like button...