It is believed that the following pools either have the gas limit hardcoded to 4,712,394 or something lower.
These pools need to change their Ethereum client settings to allow for a flexible gas limit (see below on how to do that):
If you have contact with any of the above pools, please direct them to the Reddit thread linked at the bottom so we can help get them setup with the correct command line flags!The following pools appear to be using the proper settings:
All pools should be running with the following settings:
Geth:--gasprice 4000000000 --targetgaslimit 4712388
Parity:--gas-floor-target 4712388 --gas-cap 9000000 --gasprice 4000000000
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For more information, please see the following discussion on Reddit:
Thank you!
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For example, during ICOs and stuff when the network is under greater load, the block sizes should be allowed to grow in order to carry more TX's per block.
But, some of these miners are running incorrect settings which prevent that from happening and it is effectively choking the network and creating the massive TX backlog that we had earlier this week during the Status ICO.
That in turn leads to a price decline which then hurts EVERYBODY.
Here is some additional discussion surrounding the situation:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/6iu566/the_gas_limit_of_4712388_that_we_are_converging/
There are too many details to get into in this thread.
If you ask in the mining forum, others will help you get setup:
https://forum.ethereum.org/categories/mining
I suppose some other pools must have jumped on board as well, because now the gas limit has been raised to ~6.7M+ which is great news.
See the Gas Limit graph here: https://ethstats.net
Would not competitor coins gain at Ethereum's loss?
It seems to me that the core of those on Ethereum Classic might easily think this would be a thing to do.
However, Ethereum usage has grown so much since then that it's starting to become somewhat of an issue again.
It's also being compounded by the Ice Age. But that should be resolved pretty soon with the Metropolis upgrade.