Hashrate notifications frequent and unhelpful

[edonkey]

I've been mining for a couple of months on ProHashing with a single L3+. I enabled hashrate notifications in the hope that it would tell me when there is a problem.

The issue is that I get notifications all the time when there are no actual problems. For example, I've had 4 notifications today since midnight (it's 6:38 AM as I type this). I checked my miner and there's no record of it mining on the backup pools. As near as I can tell, it's been solidly connected to ProHashing the whole time.

In the last couple of months, I've received over 150 hash rate notifications. Of those, probably only a handful are real. The rest are false alarms.

My miner hashes at a little over 500 MHs. I think that I have the notification at a fairly low 200 Mhs. Unfortunately I can't check my account settings right now because the main web site appears to be down (again).

Usually when I check in with my miner, it's running at a really high difficulty. Currently it's 131k. Maybe the high difficulty is resulting in what appears to be variance to the pool, and that triggers the false alarms?

Whatever the reason, I would really like the notification mechanism to be helpful rather than noisy and not useful. Maybe there should be an additional option to notify when the miner disconnects. Then I could disable the flaky hash rate notification and only receive notice of catastrophic failure. That would be better than nothing.

[vhmanu]

you could try lowering your diff. Perhaps your miner does not find a share for several minutes from time to time and that triggers the notification?

[edonkey]

I'm letting the pool set the difficulty, which seems like the right thing to do.

Note that I just got another notification. That's 5 in 7 hours. At that rate, I'm on track to receive 17 useless notification emails today.

At this stage, I'm just going to turn them off. Of course I have to wait till the website is back up again.

[DrIsk]

I have this same problem. I had to turn the alarm all the way down to 1 mhs, and even then I still get some false positives.

[edonkey]

I have this same problem. I had to turn the alarm all the way down to 1 mhs, and even then I still get some false positives.

Thanks for the tip. I'll try that for now.

Hopefully they'll get around to making this feature more useful some day.

[UPSoft]

totally agreed. got plenty of these mails. http://i.imgur.com/zRIbYFa.png And every time i check hashrate its on 5gh as usual. useless

[Steve Sokolowski]

I think that what happened is that the notifications are querying historical data, and now that we have WAMP data, the historical data doesn't come up with the same figures.

We'll make sure this one gets added to our list of tasks for future fixing.

[edonkey]

Thanks for looking into this Steve.