Aye, the pool was down Sad

. With all these users, the pool decided that the getwork response rates for the pool it was requesting work from wasn't fast enough, temporarily banned it, and switched to another pool. But the rates still weren't good enough, so it banned all the pools in succession. I've reset the ban counter and will figure out how to get work faster.

Quote from: organofcorti on June 19, 2011, 10:20:41 PM

Just thought you might like to know that http://multipool.hpc.tw (including the user stats sub-d) is blocked by "Websense" at my work. None of the other bitcoin sites are. How the hell did you manage to piss them off? Huh

It is a third-level domain registrar, so some of the other subdomains might have been blacklisted.

Quote from: wachtwoord on June 19, 2011, 02:09:14 PM

I don't really understand the statistics Tongue

Quote from: Sukrim on June 19, 2011, 09:36:33 PM

Utility seems to me more like an internal scoring method which pool is good to jump into than some "useful" value to caluculate with for people who don't know the inner algorithm.

That's right: the utility is my prediction for the expected utility of each share submitted. A single solo share has utility of 1, but utility of pool shares fluctuates widely. For the stats pages, utility is summed for each round, pool, and user. If your utility is greater than the number of shares, you are predicted to be doing better than solo mining. Efficiency is the ratio of the actual rewards allotted by the pools to the expected rewards of solo mining. In the long term, the ratio of the total utility to total shares should equal the total efficiency, assuming the prediction formulas are accurate.

Quote from: irishmick on June 19, 2011, 02:33:16 AM

How are you computing the efficiency of improvement?

There are slightly different formulas for different pools. Some you can figure out on your own, others are more clever.

Quote from: irishmick on June 19, 2011, 02:54:07 AM

Why limit payouts after a week of inactivity to .10 min.
If I quit your service and have only given .09 btc of service I've inadvertently gifted you 1.50+(more ATM) ....... WTF? Huh

EDIT:
changed .10 max to .10 min

That's .10 min, not .10 max. If you have 1.50 left, you get 1.50 out. The limit is there because there is no registration for the pool. You don't want someone making up a hundred thousand bitcoin accounts, submitting a hundred thousand shares (each worth 0.00005702 BTC), and costing the pool 50 BTC in fees to pay out 5.702 BTC in rewards.