Is anyone seeing this? or is this just normal variance?
Yes, I also meet the similar condition (look at the previous page). The client 13.4 does not function properly and nobody here tempts to explain why. Do not use it.
Ok, I rolled back to my previous versions of p2pool and litecoin wallet.
Interestingly enough, I decided to do a wallet backup before the rollback. Before I had a chance to backup, Litecoin wallet had crashed. When I restarted, the wallet was ~26 hours out of sync. When it resync'd, I only had mining payouts from my smaller pre-upgrade pool. No rewards from the upgraded pool.
Before all of this, I was getting from 4-10 mining payouts per day on my larger pool.
Something appears hinky with the new versions of Litecoin and p2pool.
I'm happy to report mining rewards are appearing again after the rollback to the previous versions. Shares: 4 (0 orphan, 1 dead)
I'm figuring the upgrade cost me a 2 day's worth of Litecoins, which for me, is about 0.6LTC.