Yep it will be <0.5% for just about everyone with reliable connection and miners once I get done with isolating regular users, which remain the same or grow at predictable rate, from the Backup related users after the changes I will announce as soon as I have figured out the best approach. There may be a few bumps here and there every other block which will be a thing of the past pretty soon.

The improvements allmost went full circle, initially I thought it was just the pool sending work slow at LP's so I spend days figuring that out only to come to the conclusion its network related. So I resolved that with my own approach and now I actually need to provide for better scaling of extra users

So are these hiccups during normal operation when GPUMAX runs out of public work and all the GPUMAX users switch over to your pool until they can get their public work rates again?

Pretty soon everyone will have a 1 TH/s mega super dooper BFL SC ASIC running, so you will definitely need scalability ! 

I myself am going for the 1 PH/s solar powered washer/dryer

It gets the dirt out of your clothes while it mines Bitcoins... all eco-friendly of course (aside from the detergent that is)

hmm I got a random payment of 0.0001737 for my address I used on this pool a while ago. Did it come from here?

AFAIK none of my miners have this pool anymore.

That's a lot.

Strange that one of your miners would submit just 5 shares, are you sure you didnt manually connect just for a second.

Things are good, very active and resolved the most pressing issues. Now its balancing out load which will be no guessing game as the previous issues ended up being.

Some progress, have LB running fine atm on my test setup and will keep monitoring over night. Dont want it to go AWOL in the meantime on live server.

Im leaving things as it is atm even if it might pop higher stales for now until I finish off the testing, I keep getting distracted on the running pool.

Honestly ive had way too many issues with miners other than cgminer that I really dont want to worry about every single issue they have considering cgminer gives non of those issues, workqueue related issues would mean that you would probably have to increase your default queue size which cgminer seems to manage alot better on default queue of 1 than other miners.