Seems either hardware testing is going on or just some large miners are starting up. 1.1PH just came online at BTCGuild today. I really wish someone like that would take a look at this pool. Not only would they earn more because of the lower fees, DGM method, and merge mined coins, but getting 100% of the fees for the vast majority of the blocks found would also be a plus for them.

That would be quite the load test for mmpool, but it sure would be nice to blast through a few blocks.