with that criteria, remove the score system then...

Hi, newbie here. I just started with the pool this morning. It's been going since 6am so only 8 hours in. A couple of questions to make sure everything is working as is.

So, I have a shitty card for mining, a gtx275 on my gaming rig. It's running factory settings atm. I didn't bother to oc because I'm just testing out the mining to see what it's like before I set up some ati cards for it.

So I'm getting an average of 45000 khash/s which according to the hardware comparison is about right.
But on my terminal where poclbm is running, there are these:
11/06/2011 13:21:58, warning: job finished, miner is idle
11/06/2011 13:23:36, warning: job finished, miner is idle
11/06/2011 13:24:56, cf1e82ca, invalid or stale
11/06/2011 13:25:14, warning: job finished, miner is idle
11/06/2011 13:27:49, warning: job finished, miner is idle
11/06/2011 13:30:12, 58d871a3, accepted
11/06/2011 13:33:37, warning: job finished, miner is idle

There are plenty of stretches of time where there are more idle messages than job messages. Is anything on my side wrong?

Also, I'm assuming it's just because I haven't been mining long enough and there haven't been any confirmed blocks yet, but at 8 hours I'm showing 0.020xxxxx BTC unconfirmed and 0.0 confirmed. With about ~44mh/s, is this about right? Or will there be a jump once confirmed blocks are found? And what is the average time to next confirmed block?

Thanks for taking the time to read (and possibly answer questions.)

I can confirm the above. My earnings are also down about -50% since the last 48 hours, supported by the personal chart on mining.bitcoin.cz.

Since I commit over 10 ghash/s that's a lot of money lost.

It's probability. This is a score based pool, not shares.
Shares use a fixed amount per share, score means you get your part of work proportionally paid out _IF_ a block is found.

Read up in the wiki about how blocks are "guessed" and thus randomly "found"(this is why some people talk about lucky/unlucky days on these pools and why you sometimes get big bumps or low daily returns). This is why it fluctuates and why 24 hours are nothing.

This is why there is a 7 day average in the graphs.

If you want/need a steady daily sum, try one of the low fee pay per share = "PPS" pools instead.  

Wsup with all the invalid blocks today, I saw some that had waiting confirmation numbers and after a refresh 3 of them turn into invalid...

Yea, I mean. I don't really get how all these works. It's in the name of reducing exploits and all I get it. If it's luck I get it. It's almost a 7th day and my average is going no where near my calculated. This is not right, I thought all these is not suppose to affect your reward 'that' much. We're still suppose to be able to go close to the calculated (expected) reward. It was 3.18 the day I posted about this. That is less than 50%, it's 5 on the last graph. My expected is 7.33 my 7-day average is 4.37. What's going on?

P.S And it even had a high system reward on the last graph 2800 BTC.

what is your configuration? How many GPUs? which miner software do you use? How many worker accounts have you configured? Do you see on your profile page, that each of your worker accounts is accumulating shares?

better if you check your daily reward. This MHash on your profile is hidden for the reason, that this calculations is not accurate. It varies wildly. Prettly likely that you will obseve also 1600 MHash/sec for a brief while.

No, calculation on profile page is made from shares of current round and it is expected to be very inaccurate. Actually 1Ghash from real 1.3 Ghash is pretty good estimation, nothing to worry about.

deepbit is down in performance due to lots of ddos rfecently.

so much ddos lately, and very strange bugs (for example see what's happening at btcguild right now), looks like these could be bugs promised by someone on twitter .. and/or somebody is trying to decrease network capacity to avoid too big jump in difficulty?