Hashrate notifications frequent and unhelpful
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2017 9:52 am
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.
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.