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      uncle_muddy administrators last edited by

      I get the opportunity to mine on different platforms throughout the day as resources become available and wanted to see what was going on so I have set up a Raspberry Pi as a Anubis server, I might write a how to if anyone is interested?

      So now I get to see a bunch more information about whats going on and I have a couple of questions/observations…

      What are Discards, and what is an acceptable amount?

      Now Anubis is running the BAMT page shows 0 Kh/s but cgminer shows the expected 700Kh/s and the pool is reporting about right

      Anubis doesn’t seam to display the Mh/s 5/sec as anything other than 0

      Any info you can offer would gratefully received

      UM

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        Kevlar Spammer last edited by

        Discards = stales.

        When a block is found, the solution required to mine the next one changes. As a result, any work which you might have done on the old block is discarded.

        In theory, this should never happen, because as soon as a new block is found, the pool should notify your miner client and prevent any loss of work. In practice, it happens because of network lag: The more lag, the longer you’ll go doing work without seeing the update.

        1% is generally considered an acceptable rate for stale shares on most networks, but it varies from pool to pool and coin to coin. Anything more than 5% and you might want to consider a higher difficulty if the pool offers user selectable vardiff: A higher difficulty means more time between shares found, which means more time to see a new block before finding a stale share.

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          uncle_muddy administrators last edited by

          Cheers for the reply Kevlar :)

          Going to go and do some more testing later on this one as I think my % is very high based on the information you have, but the pool is still counting and paying out for the work I have done, so how does that work?

          UM

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