A2 Terminator No credit for solved blocks

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Re: A2 Terminator No credit for solved blocks

Post by gnode » Fri Dec 02, 2016 5:19 pm

Chris, is it okay to keep solo mining? will you credit any missing coins if I do continue mining?
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Re: A2 Terminator No credit for solved blocks

Post by Chris Sokolowski » Fri Dec 02, 2016 9:46 pm

Hi gnode. If you want to keep solo mining, you can. I will change the balances at midnight each day until I fix the cause. Mining would actually help because the issue lies in confirming blocks, and it's much easier to diagnose when I can watch some blocks confirm.
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Re: A2 Terminator No credit for solved blocks

Post by gnode » Fri Dec 02, 2016 10:01 pm

Great I'll keep solo mining. BTW I did mine another 101 blocks of LYC earlier this evening.
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Re: A2 Terminator No credit for solved blocks

Post by fugju » Fri Dec 02, 2016 10:08 pm

Chris Sokolowski wrote:Hi gnode. If you want to keep solo mining, you can. I will change the balances at midnight each day until I fix the cause. Mining would actually help because the issue lies in confirming blocks, and it's much easier to diagnose when I can watch some blocks confirm.
Which Timezone? ;)

Mined on 2.12.16 (ETC, Berlin) 5x Blocks, 2x rewardet
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Re: A2 Terminator No credit for solved blocks

Post by Chris Sokolowski » Fri Dec 02, 2016 11:33 pm

Sorry for the confusion. I mean midnight EST (UTC-5), which is the time zone to which everything in the pool is synchronized since that is where the servers are located.
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Re: A2 Terminator No credit for solved blocks

Post by Steve Sokolowski » Sat Dec 03, 2016 8:15 am

Chris determined that this issue is a race condition, where some blocks are being lost because they are overwritten after being credited.

I proposed the exact solution to Chris, and he needs to write the code to implement it later today. I think that Chris will have no problem doing so and this issue should be eliminated soon.
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Re: A2 Terminator No credit for solved blocks

Post by fugju » Sat Dec 03, 2016 8:23 am

But we get the old Blocks rewardet?

I mined yesterday these game blocks ->
1520731
1521074
1521100
1521132
1521155


PS: is miss 3 of this blocks.
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Re: A2 Terminator No credit for solved blocks

Post by gnode » Sat Dec 03, 2016 9:09 am

Chris, Steve,
1) I didn't get credit for all 90 LYC blocks solved on 12/1 -- missing 135,000 coins
2) I did get credit for all 101 all 101 LYC blocks solved on 12/2 -- Thanks!
3) My account balances don't agree in different views -- pay out eligible and total on lower right are different and there has been no payout
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Re: A2 Terminator No credit for solved blocks

Post by Chris Sokolowski » Sat Dec 03, 2016 1:52 pm

We determined the cause of the solo mining issue. There is a race condition in the parallelized code that confirms and credits the solo mined blocks, and because of the race condition, sometimes the code to credit miners does not execute. Steve and I have a fix and we should have it deployed today.

For yesterday's solo-mined balances, I know that they were all messed up this morning. I needed to wait for all of yesterday's solo mined blocks to confirm before i could change the balances, and at the time I went to sleep there were a few outstanding. I will fix yesterday's balances this afternoon since they all have confirmed. Once we have the code released, the balances will update in real-time as blocks get confirmed.
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Re: A2 Terminator No credit for solved blocks

Post by gnode » Sat Dec 03, 2016 10:02 pm

Okay good luck on getting the fix deployed. I mined another 365 blocks today and I'm still looking for the 135,000 coins from dec 1. Hopefully they will show up in my balance.
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