Before few minutes I finished important migration of data structures to new version. It is first stage in push based pool, which is in progress. During this stage I also did some performance tests of current pool. I found that because of improvements in miners (for example HTTP keep-alive) and also because many CPU users disconnected (probably because rising difficulty), there is plenty of free space available. Pool is currently running on ~30% of his capacity. Althought pool core is still 'getwork' based,
I decided to open registration again to allow new users join to us.Thanks to recent update, there are also new features and minor improvements:
- I removed "donations" select box. Thanks to all people for previous pool support with higher than (necessary) 2% donations, but now everybody has fixed fee 2%.
- I removed all database locks from calculating rewards. This means there won't be any RPC errors on new round beginning anymore. Round processing is now asynchronous; processing take less than 5 minutes after block is found. In meantime, you will see placeholder on stats page. Your 'unconfirmed reward' for the block will appear on profile page after processing finish.
- Hashmeter and getwork/s meter is fixed, no duplicated values (200+ Ghash/s) any more.
- I added pager on the worker list. This should improve user experience for people with plenty of workers.
- Times in graphs are all in UTC. This fix an issue where dates in legend and in popup differs. Dates in your local time will come soon.
Edit: I broke "active workers" stats, I'll fix it soon.