I'll reply to the rest of the post shortly, but wanted to answer this question before I leave for work:
EDIT: Still getting quite fast load on dashboard with this dataset. Infact most of the time in the ms range. At slowest nearly a second. What is the point where people are starting to experience serious performance degradation, all the time?
If you've fetched the latest code and applied the database migration script, then you shouldn't be seeing any degradation anymore. If you didn't, then you would certainly see horrible dashboard performance after a while, as there were some missing indexes that would cause table scans against submitted_work during the dashboard query. (As submitted_work tends to grow slower than work_data -- but proportionally to it -- you'll need a fast miner, or a bunch of slow ones, to start seeing the performance issues quicker.)
Nope, not using the latest, but atleast the 2 first queries are mine, and my added indexes are in place.
Haven't yet checked what the diffs are.
I'm running about 1.1Ghash against this, and i noticed severe drop in earnings too, due to the more frequent phoenix crashes.
Will need to put aside 2 identical rigs to properly test is there difference.
My rejected rate is also "through the roof", at about 7% via this proxy! But again, need the testing setup of 2 identicals to verify.
Need to go buy more 6950s or 6770s to setup 2 identical rigs
