Sorry if off-topic - just because we see a little btc rally are people massively selling their namecoins? Darn! Prices are ridiculously low again.

Actually it's not a bad idea. But in the real world, this will be still highly approximate for shorter rounds (don't forget that there are still people with <10Mhash/s, so they'll see "0 Mhash/s" for most of the rounds. And when users are OK with some hashrate delay, why not to use average for last 10 rounds, which is very exact?

Well, people are asking for actual hashrate very often and I feel that I should resolve this somehow. At this moment I'm thinking about new pool core implementing Stratum mining interface and also some extended features which I'm missing. As I see, providing actual hashrate should have some priority on checklist.

Average hashrate for last 5/10 mins? Not sure how easy that would be to implement on your pool, but shouldn't be too bad assuming that you're recording timestamps when shares are being submitted...

Or it was sniffed locally? Or used somewhere else?

notawake, as I wrote to btcguild thread few minutes ago, I'm not a fan of alternative currencies except Namecoin, because they're competing Bitcoin and splitting development effort. I think we should unite, not divide, otherwise Bitcoin will end as a bunch of crapcoins. Namecoin is different, because it's more distributed data storage paid with coins than currency itself.

On the other hand, I don't see any point in attacking those alternative projects. Let give them time and room and maybe something interesting will flourish. I personally don't want to be pulled into CoinWars. I mean - I don't want to spend my time on some alternate coins for supporting it or even damage it.

Good, I was worried something was wrong on my end. And yes, all these people working on alternative coins are just hurting bitcoin. Unless someone finds a major flaw in bitcoin and the solution is found in a alternative coin system there is no point. We are really lucky that bitcoin is doing so well right now, and will be even luckier if it can maintain even half its current value. We really need to keep our focus on bitcoin, its still far from stable.

Also the only thing I would personally want to see added to slush's site is some kind of email alert if a miner goes down. I would in the future like to set up something so I can receive a text or email on my phone if a miner stops running.

... answered my question before I asked it!  Thanks for your hard work Slush!

I'm sorry for additional delay, but it looks like namecoin's blockexplorer don't index all transactions, which break my script. It is already reported to namecoin developers, so I hope it will be fixed as fast as in previous cases...

Did downgrading back to 11.11 work for you?  It didn't for me.  I went from ~440 to ~420 so I uninstalled catalyst 11.12 and reinstalled 11.11 and I am still at ~420 mhash/sec.  Hmm...