Notice a pattern? My measly 6.9TH/s (6xS5) is now a small miner. Top is shares, and bottom is pool hashrate, over a 14 hour period. I'm sure people can pick this apart, debate luck and statistics, etc... I just thought a good screenshot, somewhat makes a point.
I don't know if you are running your own node or what, and this is my first time in ~8 months looking in the forum, but have you tried /DIFF if you want more frequent (but smaller value) shares? It won't do anything if you are already submitting at the network minimum diff level. But if you are on a public p2pool node that isn't running my old patches, your share difficulty might be higher than it needs to be. (I have no idea if any of my work ever made it into p2pool itself or not.)
Some info:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=18313.msg6556442#msg6556442I'd suggest running your own p2pool node is the best choice, secondly running off a public node running my patches unless someone else or forrest did something better which made them obsolete, or thirdly manually adjusting /DIFF.
The p2pool share-chain diff is what you must meet before you get a share that will be paid.