Whats up with the "small hole"?
Bigger than suspected...
I think the main problem is probably that p2pool has been having terrible luck:
Pool Hashrate: 195 TH/s Estimated Time to Block: 1d6h35m Current Round: 4d20h3m
See:
http://p2pool.info/Yep, and I will say it again so pyra might see it, we need to move to eligius.
I said this 9 month ago ...
I was for the support of p2pool, but with p2pool.info not keeping up with network its time to rethink. I know p2pool is high variance, but this is on the edge of absurd. If I am not mistaken we will get paid our share of the next block, but not for the work submitted over the past 5+ days. That is 5 days of wasted electricity and hashing power.