Started mining on this pool and my discard rate percentage is crazy.
Getworks Accepted Rejected Hardware Errors Utility Discarded
337 39 9 0 1.765 669
scan time = 28
expiry = 7
queue = 1
even at queue 0 it was this bad.. tried 30/30 on scan and expiry and no diff..
is this normal for the pool ?
Scan time and Expiry shouldn't really have any effect on a Stratum pool. But I wouldn't set my Expiry that low in any case. Put them back to default Scan = 30, Expiry = 120 and see what happens.
You really only need to play with these setting if your solo mining or using a Getwork pool, so you would have a low scan time to detect new blocks. But Stratum pools will tell you when there is a new block, so it's not necessary.