I arrived at the wrong time I assume, the channel is empty.
Quick summary:

I have 2 different rigs:
Rig 1: 7950+290
Rig2: 290+290

7950 is stable
290 are stable for a while, then after 9 minutes i loose 0.2MHs on them. It happened on all my 290, it happened on various pools, when it happened a mine restart did not change anything, but a reboot gave me back my lost hashrate, then it last 10 minutes, then I loose my 0.2M again.
I noticed the drop happened on the exact same second on my rig2 on the 2 290. I reboot, 10 minutes later, on the same second the 2 cards looses 0.2Mh. They did not become sicks, they are stable with 0.2Mhs less.

I used Linux BAMT.

I have no clue and appreciate some help. I was thinking it was the sph-sgminer but other seems to successfuly mine using 290.

will offer a few coins if you can take care of my mental sanity.

Have you tried sgminer with the 290s? I had some issues with my 280x's with sph-sgminer - once I switched to sgminer its been stable for several days and with some tweaking the hashrate is comfortably over 2m/h per card.

Well to increase the anonymity, just add another bucket!

A dual-trade

Then make the buckets send to each other back and forth with the mixed coins.

With this; coins taken from the pool is never going to have to be from the sender --> not traceable

come into irc and we will help you get started on mining (efnet) #darkcoin

Does anybody know why difficulty is spiking and dropping and spiking and dropping?  I thought DRK was multipool resistant?

I think it's because people come in, try to mine, find it's not profitable and leave again.  At current rates, mining is not profitable, not even close.  But if you believe the coin will be useful and well accepted in the future, you don't mind mining it at current rates.

Most of the people here that "believe" in this coin, and I'm one, don't want it hyped but would rather see it increase in value naturally.  However, that'll be a pipe's dream, LOL.  Cryptos are a rollercoaster ride no matter what!