Scrypt proxy causing strange speed reporting and disconnecting

[bladwig]

I am using your proxy on a RPi. On SHA256 it is solid as a rock. I can't believe how long it runs and how resource efficient it is. Now when I run it in script mode I start to have problems. I rent my hashing power out on miningrigrentals.com. When I connect cgminer directly to the service my gpu puts out about 530kh/s according to the service. When I run it through your proxy script with isScrypt true, the service reports speeds over 2,000kh/s. It will run that way for about 15 minutes or so, then it will drop to 1,000 then it will drop to zero for a while and I see the hashing unit reconnect directly to the service which means the proxy on the RPi has died. After a few minutes, the proxy comes back up and the miner reconnects and I get those crazy speeds again.

The contents of my conf are below just to be sure it is not an issue I am causing: *note - worker passwords are not required by the service

{ "disableGetwork" : true, "isScrypt" : true, "suggestedPoolDifficulty" : 60.0, "databaseDirectory" : "/opt/stratum-proxy/scryptdb", "stratumListenPort" : 4444,

"pools" : [ { "host" : "us-central01.miningrigrentals.com:3333", "user" : "username" }, { "host" : "us-east01.miningrigrentals.com:3333", "user" : "username" }] }

[bladwig]

After further inspection, it appears that for some reason it is not setting the variable difficulty properly. It is setting 4096 for the diff but when I connect to the pool directly I get 16 which is about right for this speed.

[Stratehm]

I think you should try without the "suggestedPoolDifficulty" : 60.0 parameter. 60 as a difficulty looks a bit odd and maybe the server does not support this value and fallback to 4096.

[bladwig]

Good point, thank you, that appears to have solved it.