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

[TTravis]

Is this something I should be concerned abut:

2015-11-20 13:34:34.084452 Peer sent entire transaction 7f603cd04bae7b638b6828c0b642c0d9328382367dfbcb34bb6dfb8ff42be7ff that was already received
2015-11-20 13:34:36.845494 > in handle_share_hashes:
2015-11-20 13:34:36.845633 > Traceback (most recent call last):
2015-11-20 13:34:36.845706 > Failure: twisted.internet.defer.TimeoutError: in GenericDeferrer
2015-11-20 13:34:36.846293 Lost peer 113.200.208.21:36448 - Connection was aborted locally, using.
2015-11-20 13:34:37.066870 P2Pool: 17342 shares in chain (17346 verified/17346 total) Peers: 9 (2 incoming)
2015-11-20 13:34:37.067000  Local: 67720GH/s in last 10.0 minutes Local dead on arrival: ~10.4% (8-13%) Expected time to share: 31.0 minutes

Thanks,

Tom

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[p3yot33at3r]

No, it's just letting you know it's dropped a bad node - purely informational.

Mine on 

[sawa]

Finds blocks very rarely. Why is that?

Code:

Age	                Found	         Block #	Block Hash	                                                             Reward   Miners	 Share        	Luck
6d 9h 1m 58s	2015-11-16 02:09:55	383770  	00000000000000000055c0b4c9d8efb7ccc25a7425bab77c75bf91bca2a8477e	25.08297515	237	a2a8477e	147.14%
8d 7h 50m 34s	2015-11-14 03:21:19	383473  	00000000000000000ee7628fbd822560b7bb206bfc4926090289c8c86992c12f	25.06613403	256	6992c12f	33.46%
15d 21h 12m 17s	2015-11-06 13:59:36	382316  	000000000000000000d82908dea0384c57649f6ff5ff7faae93e53eaed06f597	25.00020420	265	ed06f597	89.21%

Until last month (for a year) mining on p2pool was the most profitable.  Now I only heat the planet.
Should it be so?
Perhaps there is an error in the source code?
There are a lot of orphans and no blocks on all nodes.

[notbatman]

I've also noticed more heat and less coins and wonder about the orphan block rate.

[jonnybravo0311]

What orphaned blocks?  P2Pool hasn't orphaned a block in a very long time.  Yes we are having a run of bad luck, but that's just what it is: bad luck.  It happens.

[sawa]

What orphaned blocks?  P2Pool hasn't orphaned a block in a very long time.  Yes we are having a run of bad luck, but that's just what it is: bad luck.  It happens.

I look at my stats http://crypto.office-on-the.net:9332/static/
What is it?:

Total: 305 (Orphan: 28, Dead: 25)

[p3yot33at3r]

That stat is your share rate.

[sawa]

Ok.
Another question:
Why stopped the transactions relayed through my node: https://blockchain.info/ip-address/82.200.205.30
Last transaction on 7/22/2015 6:16:05
I can not remember that there was - may be updated wallet or p2pool.
Port 8333 is open:

iptables -L INPUT -n -v
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 981K packets, 285M bytes)
 pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination
  29M   13G ACCEPT     tcp  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0            tcp dpt:8333
    1    28 ACCEPT     udp  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0            udp dpt:8333

I see a similar situation at many nodes:
http://elizium.name:9332/static/ https://blockchain.info/ip-address/95.170.95.133 - last transaction 2015-07-31 18:27:44
http://cammello.agaland.it:9332/static/ https://blockchain.info/ip-address/159.253.96.225 - last transaction 2015-07-31 19:08:04
http://61.219.120.109:9332/static/ https://blockchain.info/ip-address/61.219.120.109 - last transaction 2015-07-31 09:58:05
...etc, nodes through which the transaction never took place still more.

[p3yot33at3r]

Blockchain.info is notorious for being inaccurate - as long as your wallet has connections, you are OK. It also helps to forward port 9333 to your host running p2pool, as well as running the relaynetworkclient:   https://github.com/TheBlueMatt/RelayNode

[windpath]

Yea they have a lot of inaccurate data, try sendrawtransaction from your server, then you will know it's relaying

[Meuh6879]

I am looking for suggestions as to parameters for bitcoin.conf, or anything else that will help me run better.

you can tweak on relay fee for example ... to catch free transaction and catch the longest chain.

Code:

minrelaytxfee=0.0000001
mintxfee=0

but be carefull, it's take more CPU and RAM to keep the mempool backlog.
use an bitcoin XT if you can not handle this job ... with this tweak :

Code:

maxmempooltx=50000

[Meuh6879]

Finds blocks very rarely. Why is that?

because global hashrate on P2Pool don't evolve ... but Bitcoin hashrate skyrocket 

[p3yot33at3r]

With all these S7's flying out the door, p2pool is missing out due to the usual bitmain firmware that broke cgminer.

I'd like to suggest starting a bounty for kano to do his magic on the S7 as he did with previous bitmain firmwares - I think it would encourage more miners to p2pool if they knew their S7's worked properly here.

We need moar powa!

[kano]

With all these S7's flying out the door, p2pool is missing out due to the usual bitmain firmware that broke cgminer.

I'd like to suggest starting a bounty for kano to do his magic on the S7 as he did with previous bitmain firmwares - I think it would encourage more miners to p2pool if they knew their S7's worked properly here.

We need moar powa!

No point sending me any BTC

Until I get the S7 that was supposedly gonna be sent to me ... ages ago ... I'm just gonna wait on that.

Though maybe Bitmain didn't like the idea of me getting one before they pushed the network above where I wouldn't lose money mining with it more than 9hrs a day
I was thinking if I got it in the first batch I'd be able to mine 18hrs a day, but now it's already approaching a loss for me to use it anything more than the 9hrs each night when my elec is cheap

... but they don't really care either way anyway, my fixes have been in master cgminer for more than a year and a half now and they aren't in the S7 either ...

[notbatman]

Finds blocks very rarely. Why is that?

because global hashrate on P2Pool don't evolve ... but Bitcoin hashrate skyrocket 

Global warming?   

[p3yot33at3r]

With all these S7's flying out the door, p2pool is missing out due to the usual bitmain firmware that broke cgminer.

I'd like to suggest starting a bounty for kano to do his magic on the S7 as he did with previous bitmain firmwares - I think it would encourage more miners to p2pool if they knew their S7's worked properly here.

We need moar powa!

No point sending me any BTC

Until I get the S7 that was supposedly gonna be sent to me ... ages ago ... I'm just gonna wait on that.

Though maybe Bitmain didn't like the idea of me getting one before they pushed the network above where I wouldn't lose money mining with it more than 9hrs a day
I was thinking if I got it in the first batch I'd be able to mine 18hrs a day, but now it's already approaching a loss for me to use it anything more than the 9hrs each night when my elec is cheap

... but they don't really care either way anyway, my fixes have been in master cgminer for more than a year and a half now and they aren't in the S7 either ...

How about if you had access to an S7 via ssh? Or I could volunteer one of mine for testing purposes?......

EDIT: Or could I install the mainline cgminer into an S7?

[kano]

With all these S7's flying out the door, p2pool is missing out due to the usual bitmain firmware that broke cgminer.

I'd like to suggest starting a bounty for kano to do his magic on the S7 as he did with previous bitmain firmwares - I think it would encourage more miners to p2pool if they knew their S7's worked properly here.

We need moar powa!

No point sending me any BTC

Until I get the S7 that was supposedly gonna be sent to me ... ages ago ... I'm just gonna wait on that.

Though maybe Bitmain didn't like the idea of me getting one before they pushed the network above where I wouldn't lose money mining with it more than 9hrs a day
I was thinking if I got it in the first batch I'd be able to mine 18hrs a day, but now it's already approaching a loss for me to use it anything more than the 9hrs each night when my elec is cheap

... but they don't really care either way anyway, my fixes have been in master cgminer for more than a year and a half now and they aren't in the S7 either ...

How about if you had access to an S7 via ssh? Or I could volunteer one of mine for testing purposes?......

EDIT: Or could I install the mainline cgminer into an S7?

Nope. I don't support hardware I don't have - for the rather obvious reason.
... yes I do actually still have every old miner I got since I started mining
(though not sure if they all still work ...)
I've sold 2 miners over the years, that I had more that one of each of the 2 I sold.

[OgNasty]

I think it would encourage more miners to p2pool if they knew their S7's worked properly here.

My S7 runs fine on p2pool...

[-ck]

I think it would encourage more miners to p2pool if they knew their S7's worked properly here.

My S7 runs fine on p2pool...

Runs fine yes, but the bitmain driver throws away what could be potential block solves on p2pool...

[wariner]

could this be the cause of the recent bad luck?