Chris restarted server to fix memory error

[Steve Sokolowski]

Chris restarted the mining server to resolve a memory error. We added the issue to our list of tasks this weekend to investigate. I'm not quite sure what happened, but it appears that at one point there were so many coins being mined that it overflowed the pipe that sends data from the mining server to the process that inserts data into the database.

No money was lost as a result of this error; all that happened was that the shares built up in memory until the server crashed. There is enough data in the database to reconstruct how much is owed to miners for the three hour period earlier today, and Chris will correct balances when he wakes up in 8 hours. As is our policy, a bonus will be paid to today's miners. The correction will use the following calculation: (earnings between 12:00am EDT and tomorrow 12:00am EDT) * ((1440 min per day + 176 min of missing shares) / 1440 min per day) * 1.10 bonus factor. This post will be modified after Chris makes the corrections.

Thanks for your patience, and we should be able to prevent this issue from happening again over the weekend.

[Steve Sokolowski]

Chris corrected all the balances and this issue is now resolved.