Hi I have a question, you mentioned that it is good to set an askrate=10 when mining solo due to the possible change in block. I recalled that the default for poclbm or diablo was 5. Does the askrate for phoenix use the same scale system as the other 2? Additionally, does the askrate=5 potentially cause the miner to work incompletely. For example, if the miner has not completely hash the current work and the new work arrives dumping the current work mid way, and this cycle continues. Would it affect the probability of finding a solution?
Work (2^32 nonces) is always checked completely unless the block changes before the entire range of nonces is checked. In terms of full getwork responses, if the queue is already full when more work is received the oldest work is discarded. This doesn't affect the chances of finding a block, since it's just as likely that the new work contains a solution.