IMPORTANT:

We notice a couple of users are submitting a ton of stales so please if you are running the stand-alone POCLBM Miner or POCLBM through GUI-MINER you must wait for an update for windows or you can follow this thread to fix it for linux installation : https://github.com/m0mchil/poclbm/commit/3c4bf83c9fe8602c687afcd82d556cf58af4fbba

We cant officially support PHOENIX Miner even though I used to love it, to me it seems Phoenix Miner have never resolved some random stale/reject issue that crops up out of the blue even with the latest 1.7.5, so if you are using Phoenix Miner please consider using CGMINER 2.2.1 or the fixed POCLBM Miner(which works great) or use PHOENIX Miner at your own risk.

Users of Diablo Miner, I am not aware of any issues with it nor have alot of experience using it, so if you use it on our pool drop me and email and let me know so I can look at your stales using Diablo Miner EDIT: There might also be an issue with Diablo Miner, please test it first.

Stale will be dropping in the coming shares, overall pool stalerate across all miners is at 1.4% atm so its just a couple of miners it seems with either broken miners or just not efficient miners, I dont know at this time.

You could either wait and see if your stales drop and you should be fine or try cgminer/fixed poclbm or diablominer (whichever is fastest for you) and see if your stalerate improves, I would think its worth the little extra effort for the payouts we make

Btw farfiman your most recent stats on our database since start of new payment cycle shows 3.1% stales, its clearly dropping just keep an eye on it. If everyones miners is working right, they should all move to the pool average stalerate thats at 1.4% right now, eventually when shares catch up.

Something really strange just happened :

It was showing like 60836 shares submitted and 2.67 BTC ( probably wrong ) to be paid now after half and hour when I refreshed it, I get 57 shares submitted and 0.00250794 BTC earnings ( probably right ) ?

I will mine 24/7 at over 1 ghash/s as in the contract with no "hopping" as soon as I can do it. I need to test my miners settings first on another pool that does not mind a little tuning downtime because I just setup them this weekend. I am a man of my word and I will respect the contract but for now I need to tweak my miners then they will be all yours 24/7 at 3.5 ghash/s without any interruption.

I read your recent email and really don't want to be kicked out or penalized etc. I really like the fact you have a UK server so this pool should be ideal for me and my miners !

Its not related to guiminer, its just guiminer were packaged with the same stand alone poclbm miner, so it affects any mining frontend using poclbm, Im not sure how 20110701 could work for you since it also contains the broken poclbm, thats very strange.

EDIT: Ah just saw your other thread reply, well good find if that works without waiting for a fix

So, Ive just done about 25k shares test to the pool using Phoenix 2 beta and all I can say is hell-yeh. Stale rate from south africa to the UK server 0.21%

If you want to switch or just try Phoenix 2 beta, here is a easy to follow breakdown and the settings I use on my Radeon 5850 mining farm.

1.) Download for Windows: https://github.com/downloads/phoenix2/phoenix/phoenix-2.0.0.zip   or    for linux: https://github.com/downloads/phoenix2/phoenix/phoenix-2.0.0-rc1.tar.gz

2.) On windows run phoenix.exe so it writes a blank phoenix.cfg file and on linux you create the phoenix.cfg file, I use the following details in my phoenix.cfg with Radeon 5850:

when we'll be able to see our avg hash rate?

Interesting about Phoenix - but hate to say I am seeing what you advised - HUGE reject rates this morning - over 8%.  

No clue why it is such a problem with this pool as it isn't with others.  Further - can't stay connected as I keep failing over to the backup pool in phoenix...

EDIT/UPDATE:

CGMiner on another rig is running at 1% rejects... 

Switching my main miner to CGminer breaks other stuff - decision decisions...

cgminer has always worked great at every other pool for me, except this one. cgminer has everything you need built right into it, i.e. auto overclocking, auto fan speed, GPU temperature targets, emergency overheat temperature cutoff (where it will shut the card down to prevent damage), etc. I have no idea why cgminer has an issue with just this pool, but I can't change clients since I need all the functionality that cgminer provides. As of right now the reject rate is showing 1.3%, at other pools it was 0.15% to 0.2%.

that's what i'm getting as well, although on the website it says 3.1% rejects only