Quote from: Winslow Strong on November 10, 2013, 10:40:55 am

Quote from: craggietx on November 10, 2013, 08:21:33 am

bytemaster,
I think the problem occurs when adding or removing another miner using the same pts address.   I experienced it in both cases (adding and removing).   I've since switched to unique addresses for each miner.   When using unique addresses I have not seen the balance / paid reset to 0.   My experience is across 15 linux miners.

I hope this information hopes a little bit.

I can confirm this.  I had to reconnect my 5 server miners that use the same address, and my balance of 4.3 PTS got reset to 0. 

DO NOT USE THE SAME ADDRESS FOR MULTIPLE MINERS!

I will have a fix for this ASAP!  Good detective work guys.

I should also mention that I reconnected my miners because my system crashed.  So that could also have had something to do with it.  As soon as I reconnected the first one, balance was 0 and paid was 0, and it wasn't temporary.

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attempting to connect to the-iland.net
481390ms th_a       miner.cpp:108                 main                 ] 64.90.183.137:8384
481470ms th_a       miner.cpp:114                 main                 ] unspecified
Broken pipe
    {"message":"Broken pipe"}
    asio  asio.cpp:28 read_write_handler
Unable to connect

This is exactly the error I get when I try to run the miner on my Linux Mint 15, 64-bit system.  To "install" I just ran
wget http://the-iland.net/static/downloads/linux_alpha_miner-0.1.0
chmod +x linux_alpha_miner-0.1.0
./linux_alpha_miner-0.1.0 the-iland.net <pts addr>


One hash isn't one share. If you hash you and you end up with a hash low enough (starting with enough 0s) then it's considered a share, and is sent to the server.

When I "send," my balance goes up by about .04 shares, so that's clear.  But it seems that you are saying that most hashes calculated are discarded, and only those sufficiently low are submitted. 

I'm a total mining newb, so please bear with me. Out of curiosity, why does it work this way?  Aren't all hashes that aren't low enough to mine a block equally useless?  So why would some that are close to low enough be counted for shares, rather than just counting all hashes as shares?  Mining variance would be lowered even further by doing it that way.

Is it a filtering procedure to lower the burden on the mining pool?

Thanks

I think I'm not understanding something very basic.  My hpm is around 18, but I only seem to submit less than 1 hash per minute (i.e. when it prints "sending").  The sending events are what increment the valid counter and everything else. 

I thought that what is sent is a hash that is found?  But if that's true, then why does it tell me I'm hashing at 18 per minute, but only submitting less than 1 per minute?

Also - what units is the balance in?  Do you need to multiply the balance by pps to convert it to PTS?

Thanks