It is actually a very nice miner from my experience with it so far.  It is not for everyone with the amount of electricity needed.  And also you do need a lot of PCIe cables I don't deny this.   But the recommended psu works great with them.

So far 1 day and 7 hours running not a single issue and running up to spec.   So actually looks good as far as miner stand point.

my payouts were a solid .03 to .086 per block,  now dropped to .006?  exactly same hashrate. Colour me confused....

Just wanted to share a couple things with everyone to maintain transparency:

1. I have been testing P2Pool with BitcoinXT on my development node, it works as expected with really no performance differences at all.

2. In the next couple weeks(TM) I'll be releasing Chain Query (alpha: http://chainquery.com) on Github, once thats done I plan to rewrite my P2Pool node front end to use Chain Query and MySQL (the core P2Pool code does not need to be altered) and will relaunch http://minefast.CoinCadence.com on BitcoinXT with the new front end. I will release the full source for the new front end on Github.

The switch to XT is a personal decision, and shows my support for scaling Bitcoin. I believe it is the right path.

If you don't like the idea of bigger blocks and mine on my node you are welcome to find another that runs Bitcoin Core, or run your own.

My intention is not to start some debate about block size in this thread, there is plenty of that elsewhere.

As P2Pool miners we vote with our hashrate, in the coming months that hashrate on my node will be running off of BitcoinXT.

I hope that many of you (P2Pool node operators) will join me in supporting Bitcoin's growth by voting with your hashrate, I know that some of you will not, and thats your choice.

And that's all I have to say about that.

Cheers.

With all this talk of high DOA rates etc, I've been trying to decide what is best for my mining equipment.   I have 3 S5's situated in a Chinese datacentre. I am in the UK.

These miners run through a Miningrigrental pool (main one in EU) which gives me immediate control over switching of nodes should I need to.  I'm currently on Coin Cadence, but I wondered how I can reduce my DOA?

Would it be best to:

1. Choose a node nearest the physical location of my equipment?  For example in China.

2. Choose a node nearest to the miningrigrental server? For example in Europe.

or

3. Choose or create a node nearest to my personal physical location?  For example in The UK .

Or something else?

Sorry for the long question.  I'm quite new to P2pool.

Thanks

Pretty sure that's the basis of what nonnakip and OgNasty have done for their NastyPoP implementation.  Every miner connects to the ckpool instance, which directs to the p2pool node underneath.

Where are you seeing the address that provided the block solution?  My logs don't show that information, they simply show this:
I suppose I could evaluate the share data ... but that wouldn't work for any blocks found by dead/orphaned shares...

I have bittorrent and it is throttled and causes no issue (unless I'm in a hurry and the cap comes off). I could try QOS on the router again but as previously stated, that caused issues with p2pool previously. Though thinking about it, that *may* have actually been a bitcoind thing (I was hashing but not getting shares).

I would consider upping the connection speed *but* it's Comcast with their craptastic 300GB cap and I'm not paying extra for exactly the same amount of data.

yeah, my node is also only showing one of two blocks.

we going for 3?