Stale shares là gì

When I mine at a pool, only a part of my shares are accepted. There is a small percentage which is marked as stale.

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As far as I know I only get paid for accepted shares, so what are these stale shares & how can I avoid them?

Stale shares are the shares that were sent after a bloông chồng was already solved, that is khổng lồ say, they were sent late and were no longer valid. To avoid stale shares, best khổng lồ have sầu a reasonably fast mining rig (so you won"t take too long khổng lồ calculate a giới thiệu, probably not a problem for most machines), reliable internet connection (stable, not necessarily fast), but also an up-to-date mining software (if you are mining with some really old miner it might not communicate in the most efficient manner with the pool).

In short - update your miner every now & then, make sure your mạng internet is running okay, and don"t mine on really weak rigs.

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answered Oct 7 "11 at 22:28

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A stale share occurs when you find a share & submit it to the mining pool after the pool has already moved on to the next blochồng. The percentage of stale shares should be very low if everything"s working correct, around 2 out of 1,000 shares or so.

Several factors affect the stale giới thiệu rate. The three most important are long polling, pool load, và miner-to-pool latency.

Any shares found based on old work units after the pool controller receives a new bloông xã will be stale. Long polling is a technique that allows the pool to notify all of its miners when there"s a change in the blochồng chain so they can immediately request new work units. If your pool or mining software doesn"t tư vấn long polling, you will finish out the old work units, generating stale shares.

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When the long polling notification goes out, all miners that tư vấn long polling request new work units at about the same time. This generates a massive burst of load as the pool has to manages lots of network traffic và do several SHA-256 operations for each nội dung it issues. If the pool is slow khổng lồ issue you a new work unit, the window in which you can generate stale shares increases.

The long polling và subsequent nói qua request process requires a few network operations. Latency between the miner và the pool can slow this process down. Picking a pool with a controller near you (network wise) can reduce this part of the stale cốt truyện window as well.

In addition, some pools have had bugs in their software that produced stale shares. The pool checks if the share is stale by seeing if it has a record of the work unit & clearing all work unit records when the chain changes. So if something goes wrong with the work unit tracking process, that will result in a stale giới thiệu being reported.

For example, if the pool erroneously issues the same work unit to two miners, the first one lớn submit the chia sẻ will get credit. The pool will remove sầu the record when the nói qua is found because otherwise you could submit the same mô tả more than once. This will result in you getting a stale nội dung report.

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I probably shouldn"t admit it, but I was actually responsible for one such bug. My first implementation of long polling in the thanglongsc.com.vn client rushed as quickly as possible to lớn skết thúc out the notifications of a new bloông xã being discovered lớn miners -- so quickly that some miners could request new work units before the client had finished processing the new blochồng & they got work units based on the old bloông xã. Any shares they submitted based on those work units would be reported as stale.