Re: CKPOOL - Open source pool/proxy/passthrough/redirector/library in c for Linux

Hey -ck

thanks for your work and sharing of this great piece of pool software.

I played around with your ckpool to learn and better understand mining process.

Now one question (so far) comes up, why does the pool re-adjust the vardiff from scratch for every known client after reconnects / instance takeover (with your -H option) / ...
Doesn't it put alot of stress on a pool server with thousands of clients connected if , for example , you make a instance takeover and all thousand clients start to re-djust vardiff with x shares per second ?
Since you already have per worker information stored, isn't it better to store also last vardiff information and start from there on the next connection of the same worker ?

Thanks

That's a lot of data to hand over, the handover only hands over sockets, not the state of vardiff etc., and all of them will have to reconnect so all the previous connections will be invalid so you won't know who's on which socket after reconnect anyway. Worker names does not equal which socket they're connected to.

ok got it, thats for handover.
But why not serving previous difficulty after reconnect ?
Example:
1) Miner A with wokerName: MinerA connected and mined for a while on stable diff.
2) pool stores this diff information per worker
3) Miner A disconnects and reconnects after few minutes
4) pool identifies miner by workerName -> gets old diff value from log and serves the stored diff instead of starting new vardiff ramping ?

Very likely that i oversee a detail, like i said -> Learning phase .. so thanks for your answers Wink

One workername can have 10 thousand separate workers all with the same workername, but each with separate diffs.