Quote from: jedi95 on August 12, 2011, 09:46:16 PM

Could you run Phoenix with the -v option and post the last few log entries before the miner stopped working? The "idle timeout" simply ensures that ask() always returns after no more than 15 seconds. The idle issue on RPC was caused by a combination of the memory leaks and ask() never running its callbacks. By fixing the memory leaks and adding a timeout to ask() it should prevent the RPC protocol from hanging.

The increase in stale shares might be due to your internet connection not working normally. It also might be due to the keep-alive issue I just fixed in 1.6.1. Try 1.6.1 out once your internet connection is working normally again and see if you still have a high stale count.

Also, I am considering forcing a failover if the miner goes idle for more than 1 minute. This will make getting stuck idling impossible, (assuming the backup server is up) since the entire protocol object is destroyed and re-created when switching servers.

Did another git pull this morning, and the stale shares issue is gone now, back to well below 1% for the last few hours. Jood job.

The miner hasn't yet locked up again so I can't tell if whatever problem that caused it is also solved. I'll add a -v as soon as I'm back at my machine tonight and then we will see.

About failover... I'm pointing the miner at my local mining proxy (cdhowie) which lives on the same machine. What do you think, should I use the same address as backup url, so even if not actually switching servers it will still reset the protocol if it's idle? Of course that wouldn't help with the proxy itself going down, but in my experience the proxy is very well behaved once you've figured out how to configure the underlying Apache for more concurrent threads and longer timeouts.

EDIT: One more thing, the phatk2 kernel produces a warning about variable t1 being defined but never used in the kernel (line 153 I think) on start-up, but then works fine as it seems. Is that normal and expected behaviour? Or am I missing out on an optimization that way?

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