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

[BTCMiners.net]

Changed the setup of my pool.  It obviously was not a hit.

I did however, launch 3 new pools! One in San Francisco one in New York City and one in Amsterdam.  I did put a 0.25% Fee on there as running 4 nodes, does cost a bit of money.  

Let me know what y'all think?

www.BTCMiners.net

[asyring]

@btcminer do you share the data directory between the pool servers?

[BTCMiners.net]

@btcminer do you share the data directory between the pool servers?

Yes, I made a quick compressed file so that everything would install quickly.

[HellDiverUK]

Take this as constructive criticism, BTCMiner, please.

They're not a hit, because you still have terribly high latency, and poor efficiency.  Your nodes all seem to be reporting a different pool speed, too - they're all out by 0.5-1TH/s which I don't quite understand.

I think you need to address the big issues with your nodes before you expect anyone to mine on them. 

[centove]

My node does pretty good now that I stuffed it into a virtual machine vs running on the bare hardware... I don't understand it but....

Is it the best? Probably not..

[BTCMiners.net]

Take this as constructive criticism, BTCMiner, please.

They're not a hit, because you still have terribly high latency, and poor efficiency.  Your nodes all seem to be reporting a different pool speed, too - they're all out by 0.5-1TH/s which I don't quite understand.

I think you need to address the big issues with your nodes before you expect anyone to mine on them. 

I've reset the nodes and they all seem to be 0.1s latency, I can't really help the fact that they don't have closer nodes to connect to.  (At least to my knowledge)

The poor efficiency would be easily explained by, that they haven't been up very long to be quite effective.  If they had a month or two on them with people mining, I would assume that they would be doing quite well!

I think the big issues have been dealt with, just need some miners.   If no one wants to mine on them, that's fine; I'll just shut them down.  I'm trying to offer reasonable outlets to users who may not have the means to run a server, have one close by.  I'm paying money out of my own pocket for these to run on a mere 0.25% (Don't think I'm planning a vacation to Hawaii or Jamaica quite yet.)

[Jude Austin]

Any reason why p2pool wouldn't connect to the p2p port of the client?

I edited the p2pool source to add an altcoin and it connects to rpc but when it gets to the testing p2p part it just hangs there.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Krak]

Any reason why p2pool wouldn't connect to the p2p port of the client?

I edited the p2pool source to add an altcoin and it connects to rpc but when it gets to the testing p2p part it just hangs there.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Did you set a maximum amount of connections in bitcoin.conf? If so, restart the client and start up p2pool before it hits the limit (or just raise the limit).

[Jude Austin]

Any reason why p2pool wouldn't connect to the p2p port of the client?

I edited the p2pool source to add an altcoin and it connects to rpc but when it gets to the testing p2p part it just hangs there.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Did you set a maximum amount of connections in bitcoin.conf? If so, restart the client and start up p2pool before it hits the limit (or just raise the limit).

I believe it might have something to do with the version bytes.

Atleast that is what I was told seen here:

Code:

namecoin=math.Object(
        P2P_PREFIX='f9beb4fe'.decode('hex'),

I need to find the value that corresponds with the p2p version header from the coin I am trying to add.

[freshzive]

Someone has been mining using my pool for a few days and hasn't received a payout: http://disco.cn.mu:9332/static/graphs.html?Day

They are using address 1LMW4R99Pn5tWTfhBd5iLXEtBWaJzNb7PE , you can see they are running at ~2Ghash on the charts.

Is the graph below them their payout for the next block we find? I guess maybe they just hadn't found a share yesterday when we found the last block?

[K1773R]

Someone has been mining using my pool for a few days and hasn't received a payout: http://disco.cn.mu:9332/static/graphs.html?Day

They are using address 1LMW4R99Pn5tWTfhBd5iLXEtBWaJzNb7PE , you can see they are running at ~2Ghash on the charts.

Is the graph below them their payout for the next block we find? I guess maybe they just hadn't found a share yesterday when we found the last block?

yes the graphs below a BTC worker name is they payout they would get

[HellDiverUK]

Where is the pool node's fee set?  In the command line I assume?

[BTCMiners.net]

Where is the pool node's fee set?  In the command line I assume?

Yes, when you run the start command for it, it's a flag.  -f 0.25 is 0.25% -f 1.0  is 1%

[HellDiverUK]

Where is the pool node's fee set?  In the command line I assume?

Yes, when you run the start command for it, it's a flag.  -f 0.25 is 0.25% -f 1.0  is 1%

Ah, cool.  Cheers.

On other news, I'm just about to throw some hardware at my node - the Celeron is a piece of crap.  I just bought the cheapest OEM PC I could find locally (an Asus with a 3GHz Pentium), which will become my node.  Hopefully it'll be a bit more stable...

[ebereon]

can someone explain how the Efficiency is calculated? is it uptime based or just last n shares or last n time?

Thanks.

[Krak]

can someone explain how the Efficiency is calculated? is it uptime based or just last n shares or last n time?

Thanks.

It's based on your total amount of shares (since the last time you restarted your p2pool instance) in comparison to the rest of the network. If it's over 100%, you have a better than average orphan/DOA rate.

[Ghost of USD]

Is there anyone running an OC'd four module Avalon on p2pool?

I seem to get the same hashrate (90GH) at 325 as I do at 300, except with more heat and noise.

And I don't think it's a problem with power or cooling because if I switch to a different pool it hashes at around 105GH.

[HellDiverUK]

Is there anyone running an OC'd four module Avalon on p2pool?

I seem to get the same hashrate (90GH) at 325 as I do at 300, except with more heat and noise.

And I don't think it's a problem with power or cooling because if I switch to a different pool it hashes at around 105GH.

What's your GetBlockLatency like?  How fast is the machine running p2pool?  To me (not having anywhere near that hashing power) it seems like p2pool isn't able to provide work fast enough?

If you want, you could point your miner at my node for a few minutes (0.25% fee) and see what it reports?

http://847pool.no-ip.biz:9332

[ebereon]

Is there anyone running an OC'd four module Avalon on p2pool?

I seem to get the same hashrate (90GH) at 325 as I do at 300, except with more heat and noise.

And I don't think it's a problem with power or cooling because if I switch to a different pool it hashes at around 105GH.

Please check the cpu load on your avalon. It is near 80% on my 3 module avalon and it can be 100% on a 4 module. If so, then thats the problem. The cpu is to tiny on the wrt board. If you realy want to use p2pool, then connect the avalon controller usb cable (remove Jumper J1 on the controller board) to a PC/Notebook and run cgminer on it. Everything is controlled by cgminer eg. fans, clocking etc.

[zvs]

I've tested a few p2pool nodes before... some don't provide work fast enough

not latency related either... CPU issue ^^ like stated above    (on the actual machine running p2pool, that is)