Updating balances for July 24
Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2017 11:12 pm
Unfortunately, the server has been overloaded today and that has caused periods where balances were not credited. Shortly after midnight ET (about an hour from now), I will be increasing balances to compensate for the missing time.
We have had to temporarily raise the minimum static difficulty to 4096 for scrypt and 0.0625 for X11. This will reduce the number of shares submitted and improve stability. We plan to return to the previous minimums of 512 for scrypt and 0.0078125 for X11 once Steve has finished the rework of the mining server's code that increases parallelization.
Right now, I am working on moving our database to the faster disks we installed a few weeks ago, which should improve performance. I also will be implementing a temporary script tonight that will restart the mining server when it shares are delayed by more than 10 minutes. That will result in 10 minutes of lost shares when it occurs, but that is better than the current situation where hours of shares can be lost when the server runs out of memory and crashes. I will monitor for those 10 minute periods if they do occur and credit miners accordingly. Again, this change is only temporary and will be removed once Steve finishes the optimizations.
We have had to temporarily raise the minimum static difficulty to 4096 for scrypt and 0.0625 for X11. This will reduce the number of shares submitted and improve stability. We plan to return to the previous minimums of 512 for scrypt and 0.0078125 for X11 once Steve has finished the rework of the mining server's code that increases parallelization.
Right now, I am working on moving our database to the faster disks we installed a few weeks ago, which should improve performance. I also will be implementing a temporary script tonight that will restart the mining server when it shares are delayed by more than 10 minutes. That will result in 10 minutes of lost shares when it occurs, but that is better than the current situation where hours of shares can be lost when the server runs out of memory and crashes. I will monitor for those 10 minute periods if they do occur and credit miners accordingly. Again, this change is only temporary and will be removed once Steve finishes the optimizations.