Connection limit purposely restored

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Steve Sokolowski
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Re: Connection limit purposely restored

Post by Steve Sokolowski » Sat Nov 04, 2017 6:59 pm

Aura89 wrote:
Steve Sokolowski wrote:Chris was able to successfully remove this limit temporarily. We'll reinstitute it when the system again reaches capacity.

We were able to increase capacity by setting g=off for all miners by default, by dramatically increasing the minimum difficulty and minimum d= setting, and disconnecting "idle workers," which are miners who connect to the system and then never submit any shares. These workers waste CPU power and take away connection slots from other contributing miners.
In your help page, g=off is stated to potentially lower profits, so...is that not true, or should we set to to dynamic manually now to get the most profit?
Merge-mined coins are now contributing only about 2% of profits. Even if this causes half of merge-mined shares to be stale, only 1% would be lost. I wouldn't make any changes.
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