A very interesting and informative read indeed, thanks for that link. However, am I right in saying that the information used goes up to mid November? If so, my problems started after that period, especially when the stratum code was implemented, and turning it off made no difference. It's also about that time that the 30 day luck charts started it's gradual but continuous nose dive, or did I read it wrong?
Peace.
Edit: I personally never had any problems with memory leak on 11.04 64bit.
p2Pool's luck has not been unusual.
Number of blocks since 15th November: 130
Average shares per round / Difficulty since 15th November: 1.018761
CDF: 0.5955248
All quite typical for any pool.
If you want an idea of how unusual pool luck would have to be in order to be either better or worse than 95% of 130 block sequences, the interval of shares per round / difficulty is [0.8354974, 1.1790661].
So average shares per round / difficulty less than ~ 0.84 or greater than ~ 1.18 over 130 blocks would be unusual. Average shares per round / difficulty = 1.02 is
not unusual.