I have again started pointed a S7 at zpool. It is consistently reconnecting but, is not getting kicked off needing a hard-reset like it was before.
I do see the results of the disconnects (pool hashrate drops massively is one clue) and my miner hashrate resets then climbs back up.
So it seems as whatever garbage that was keeping the miner from reconnecting or getting hung waiting to reconnect... is no longer happening. My only issues now are the normal power issues associated with living out of the city in the country.
The lyra2 port seems to waver greatly on my hashrate it is seeing. Its very odd.... So sometimes I get a full reward (~25Mh) and sometimes a partial reward (~13Mh)... I am wondering if I force a diff that this will change my hashrate consistency.... telling me that the diff is going just a little too high for the speed of the coins its mining.
This is good to hear. We've made changes to the lowest level socket connections which seems to cut out a lot of connection problems. Mainly problems were coming from miners disconnecting from the stratum server when we were in the middle of handing out jobs for one of the coins that were being mined. We now have 5s socket timeouts. Which is way more than enough time. The majority os sockets are established successfully in 1ms or less so even 5 is a lot and I may fiddle with that a bit more. So the stratum isn't resetting so much as it is closing failed sockets before it hangs the whole stratum like it was doing.
I hoped it would help with all the problems but there there is still problems when I enabled AUX coins so I've dropped them all on sha again and just left DOGE on scrypt. the other algos don't seem to have problems with them probably because there are no ASIC's on them aside from X11, which may eventually see problems once there are more providers of ASIC's building crappy devices etc...