[1500 TH] p2pool: Decentralized, DoS-resistant, Hop-Proof pool

[xgtele]

Sweet and congrats guys on 2 blocks today!

Now 3 blocks! Yes!!! 

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[Searinox]

This is so slow. With hashrate down payout increased by a percent but block find rate dropped by that same percentage... now the payout's very rough. It's either everything or nothing at all. It isn't smooth and steady at all. Now that the difficulty's shot up it takes 36 hours to find a block...

[zvs]

yeah i got .045 btc with just 575MH mining for less than 24 hours, feel so good

default settings are the best, 130 efficiency 0 orphaned and only 1% doa

so you have 100 shares and 1 doa and 0 orphans?

at 575mh in less than 24hrs?

[xgtele]

This is so slow. With hashrate down payout increased by a percent but block find rate dropped by that same percentage... now the payout's very rough. It's either everything or nothing at all. It isn't smooth and steady at all. Now that the difficulty's shot up it takes 36 hours to find a block...

Solo mining is also isn't smooth and steady at all.

[GrapeApe]

yeah i got .045 btc with just 575MH mining for less than 24 hours, feel so good

default settings are the best, 130 efficiency 0 orphaned and only 1% doa

so you have 100 shares and 1 doa and 0 orphans?

at 575mh in less than 24hrs?

I think he's missing a zero in there...

I was wondering if anyone has seen this?

Today I finally received my units from Feb. 2 order. One unit was almost clean, while other one is moderate dusty. After checking all connections and desoldering F1 fuse, I started to configure units. First unit has been tuned to ozco.in and that is not surprise, cos same config was on my unit from batch one. Second unit has more interesting config:
http://puu.sh/3hrak.png
As you can see, first pool is eligius.st and most important is address: https://blockchain.info/address/1AYdAw8CcrQ2wx55LTbFHRn5bxgNZhaRLW?offset=0&filter=0
716.40851602 BTC was mined from April 22 by various units. And only gods know, how much was mined on ozco.in.
So, regardles what said Yifu, the answer is: YES, Team Avalon is mining with customer units.

PS: I'm don't have any problems with fact, that Avalon is mining with my units, if this is burn test and not introducing shipment delays.

[Amph]

no just 5, but they are worth 0.0145

[zvs]

no just 5, but they are worth 0.0145

how can you come to the conclusion that you have 0% orphans and 1% DOA and that 'default settings are best' on such a small sample

i guarantee you will get plenty of orphans with 6 outgoing connections and 0 incoming

[Amph]

i'm only saying, that for now i have those result, and they are good, if i change to the one proposed by the guy with the guide, my latency goes up to 0.250s+.
anyway i can't mine for more than 16h

[freshzive]

How do you guys keep your latency so low? My "Bitcoind GetBlockTemplate Latency" hovers around ~200ms even though my google ping is a pretty steady ~22ms. My machine is running nothing other than p2pool/bitcoind.

My efficiency right now looks OK, but in past times orphans have jumped up a bunch.

[bitpop]

Upgrade your Bitcoin, Google ping has nothing to do with it.

[freshzive]

Upgrade your Bitcoin, Google ping has nothing to do with it.

Latency has something to do with it. I am already running 0.8.2.

[bitpop]

Now why would an internet ping have something to do with it?

[freshzive]

Now why would an internet ping have something to do with it?

Latency (ping) to the other nodes? Or is that merely latency to the local bitcoind? Sorry.

[bitpop]

Just to Bitcoin locally

[notme]

How do you guys keep your latency so low? My "Bitcoind GetBlockTemplate Latency" hovers around ~200ms even though my google ping is a pretty steady ~22ms. My machine is running nothing other than p2pool/bitcoind.

My efficiency right now looks OK, but in past times orphans have jumped up a bunch.

GetBlockTemplate all takes place on your machine... no network involved.  If I had to guess, I'd say old bitcoind (as bitpop suggested), slow disks, or not enough memory.

If you are all up to date and don't want to upgrade your hardware, feel free to give my p2pool pool a try.  It is a new type of mining pool backed by a p2pool instance that is currently running at 115% efficiency (with a sample of 595 shares).  Basically, it pools shares from multiple users and submits them to p2pool under the same address.  It tracks the original address tied to each share and then I pay out proportionally whenever p2pool finds a share.  This allows for lower variance for smaller miners and will hopefully bring more hashpower to p2pool.  I don't have publicly available stats yet, but I'm working on it.  See this thread for more details: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=234841.0

There are of course other public p2pool instances if you have enough hashpower and prefer the more direct route.  My software is very new, and while it has been stable so far I can't make any guarantees.  Anyone willing to help test would be very much appreciated.

[bitpop]

Yes I have a public direct one, you can look at my latency

[gyverlb]

zvs posted an interesting try with 1MB blockmaxsize on his setup.

forrestv, could you read it and my following comment? We may have found why we disagreed on blockmaxsize settings: it seems that P2Pool takes some time generating work with high number of transactions which is made worse on public nodes where the work must be generated for several payout addresses.

On private nodes like mine (only allowing miners sharing the same payout address) this isn't really noticeable (probably <100ms even with maxed out blocks) but on public nodes like his the delays between each work generation add up and the last one can be seriously lagging (by several hundreds of ms and probably in some extreme cases several seconds).

Here's the post:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=153232.msg2499751#msg2499751

Could you at least confirm that we understood what happens in zvs' log correctly?

[daemondazz]

I'm really trying to resist posting in case I jinx it, but has something changed or have we just had really good luck - 5 blocks in the last 27 hours?

[bitpop]

No luck, just getting paid for last week. It's an average.

But yippee! And good because I just left to slush because of stupid jalapeno.

[notme]

No luck, just getting paid for last week. It's an average.

But yippee! And good because I just left to slush because of stupid jalapeno.

How long would our share time need to be extended to in order to make p2pool work well with BFL hardware?