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

[Red Emerald]

On linux:
git clone https://github.com/forrestv/p2pool.git
on windows:
git clone https://github.com/forrestv/p2pool.git
(after installing http://msysgit.github.com/ )

I think it's probably easiest to just leave the folder with it's original name.  Doesn't that work?  I seem to recall someone mentioning that a few pages back.

Not if you use a script to start it.  Everytime you download a new version you have to update your script.

M

You could write a script smart enough to use "forrestv-p2pool-*" or if there are multiple folders matching that pattern let you pick one.

[rav3n_pl]

Standard "git clone" command will try to make "p2pool" directory. Version check is form git command.
To see "proper" version on windows use msysgit:

Code:

Welcome to msysGit


Run 'git help git' to display the help index.
Run 'git help <command>' to display help for specific commands.
Run '/share/msysGit/add-shortcut.tcl' to add a shortcut to msysGit.

Leszek@DOMOWY / (devel)
$ cd p2pool/

Leszek@DOMOWY /p2pool (master)
$ git pull
Already up-to-date.

Leszek@DOMOWY /p2pool (master)
$ c:/python27/python run_p2pool.py
2012-12-15 10:22:03.782000 p2pool (version 9.4-13-g5703b70)
2012-12-15 10:22:03.782000
2012-12-15 10:22:03.782000 Testing bitcoind RPC connection to 'http://127.0.0.1:
8332/' with username (...)

[rav3n_pl]

Does any1 mining TRC found that something is wrong? NO block in 24hrs where expected time to block is about 0.5hr?

[Smoovious]

Does any1 mining TRC found that something is wrong? NO block in 24hrs where expected time to block is about 0.5hr?

I was seeing a v8 trying to connect during the time I was getting tons of failure messages on the shares... which shouldn't have been possible...

so, I was thinking maybe someone was trying to join wrong, with too much hashrate or something...
I have nothing to back that up tho, other than "wtf is up with this v8 node?"

Anyways, I separated my node from the rest to test a couple things out, see if I was still getting those share errors, and so far, it looks fine (except for my 2nd node not downloading shares from the 1st node)

I have seen some payouts come in on TRC recently, which I know didn't come from my nodes tho, so somewhere, I'm still getting some payout. No messages on the irc-announce tho, so dunno where they're getting inserted...

Are you still seeing errors?

-- Smoov

[rav3n_pl]

I run 2nd TRC node on my machine at work, killed that raise error message about "gentx"
Looks like it is forked:

Home: Pool rate: 1.67GH/s (16% DOA+orphan) Share difficulty: 14.1
Node uptime: 0.630 days Peers: 3 out, 3 in

Work: Pool rate: 82.5MH/s (12% DOA+orphan) Share difficulty: 1.00
Node uptime: 0.005 days Peers: 5 out, 0 in

Maybe there is more subnets? Why peer seeding not work? I`ll try make more connections form my home PC when I get back (like 10/50).

[Smoovious]

I run 2nd TRC node on my machine at work, killed that raise error message about "gentx"
Looks like it is forked:

Could be forked... not sure what that v8 peer was up to, but if it was someone to just edited their v8 client to connect to TRC's network, and if they had a lot of hashrate, it could be causing problems, since the rest of us would have been considered to be switched over to v9 already...

It could also be intentional, experimenting with how p2pool could be disrupted?

The existence of that v8 peer that kept trying to connect, when terracoin network wasn't even in the client until post-v9, just keeps nagging at me... wtf is that guy up to? Why use v8 if he could have just fetched v9 to get on?

Did you isolate your nodes?

-- Smoov

edit: and another question comes to mind, with how short TRC's share chain is right now (and perhaps if a minimum # of shares in the chain should be enforced, if it isn't already)

With as few nodes as we have going right now, it is possible for nodes to be disconnected from each other long enough, to end up with the forked chains, ending up with 2 valid share chains among 2 different groups... if those 2 groups, end up somehow finding each other again, and there is no common place left in either group's chains where both chains would have diverged from, how would the clients resolve that, to allow both groups to rejoin together again?

and, could that be something that we're seeing the effects of with all those error messages, with nodes trying to resolve the shares shared by other nodes, and unable to do so?

-- Smv

[celkaris]

Does any1 mining TRC found that something is wrong? NO block in 24hrs where expected time to block is about 0.5hr?

I also got loads of 'weird' output in my trc p2pool logs, after some investigation, i found this post :

http://sourceforge.net/p/terracoin/discussion/p2pool/thread/3fe0acea/

it looks like p2pool trc settings were updated, but not yet merged into p2pool repository.

I temporarily switched to the source pointed by that post, i'll try to give some feedback after a few hours or days.

There's apparently a pull request submitted ( https://github.com/forrestv/p2pool/pull/54 ) with that code, i hope it will make it soon into p2pool repos, so my machine won't waste so much cpu/bandwidth retrying to send/receive the same shares over and over

[Smoovious]

Does any1 mining TRC found that something is wrong? NO block in 24hrs where expected time to block is about 0.5hr?

I also got loads of 'weird' output in my trc p2pool logs, after some investigation, i found this post :

http://sourceforge.net/p/terracoin/discussion/p2pool/thread/3fe0acea/

it looks like p2pool trc settings were updated, but not yet merged into p2pool repository.

I temporarily switched to the source pointed by that post, i'll try to give some feedback after a few hours or days.

There's apparently a pull request submitted ( https://github.com/forrestv/p2pool/pull/54 ) with that code, i hope it will make it soon into p2pool repos, so my machine won't waste so much cpu/bandwidth retrying to send/receive the same shares over and over

I'll have to wait until forrestv puts together a new w32 binary... I'm not working with sources...

Sooo... I'll just keep my nodes isolated from the rest of the network until then.

-- Smoov

[Smoovious]

And, for some reason, irc-announce isn't working either... the following block should have been in the channel.

I know it is connected to IRC, as I have all of my nodes identified. It just didn't announce.

(dunno about that block submittal result. it was a valid block and paid.)

Oh, and when you look it up on the block explorer, a curious payout to "UNKNOWN"...
> UNKNOWN: 0.00752335
> UNKNOWN: 0

dunno if that was supposed to be forrestv's skim or not. do we know if he even has TRC set up?

---

2012-12-15 08:48:12.674000 GOT BLOCK FROM MINER! Passing to bitcoind! http://cryptocoinexplorer.com:3750/block/0000000000390507a5f3119ad35efc6c1e9969a048137d0d0cd192a3c58a1ecf
2012-12-15 08:48:12.676000
2012-12-15 08:48:12.685000 GOT SHARE! \\impalien.imperium.UUCP\gpu c58a1ecf prev 24e6fb87 age 1.99s
2012-12-15 08:48:12.698000
2012-12-15 08:48:12.700000 GOT BLOCK FROM PEER! Passing to bitcoind! c58a1ecf bitcoin: http://cryptocoinexplorer.com:3750/block/0000000000390507a5f3119ad35efc6c1e9969a048137d0d0cd192a3c58a1ecf
2012-12-15 08:48:12.707000
2012-12-15 08:48:12.715000 New work for worker! Difficulty: 0.999985 Share difficulty: 13.833736 Total block value: 20.000000 TRC including 0 transactions
2012-12-15 08:48:13.420000 > Block submittal result: False (u'rejected') Expected: True

---

-- Smoov

[rav3n_pl]

Does any1 mining TRC found that something is wrong? NO block in 24hrs where expected time to block is about 0.5hr?

I also got loads of 'weird' output in my trc p2pool logs, after some investigation, i found this post :
http://sourceforge.net/p/terracoin/discussion/p2pool/thread/3fe0acea/
it looks like p2pool trc settings were updated, but not yet merged into p2pool repository.
(...)

I'll have to wait until forrestv puts together a new w32 binary... I'm not working with sources...
(...)

I have merged that change in fresh p2pool installation on my bro PC and it is running w/o throwing any errors.
Will try to make exe files and put them to my skydrive.
Meanwhile if someone want to run it all form sources:
1. download python http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7.3/ (msi install)
2. download zope http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zope.interface/4.0.2#downloads (need be unzipped)
3. download twisted http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/Downloads (msi/exe install)
4. download pywin32 http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/pywin32/Build%20218/ (msi/exe install)
5. download msysgit http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list (zip or exe, I prefer portable)

In msysgit shell

Code:

git clone https://github.com/forrestv/p2pool.git
cd p2pool
git remote add trcp2poolfork git://github.com/terracoin/p2pool.git
git pull trcp2poolfork master

copy data directory from old installation if want to save graphs and run it from msysgit shell (to have proper version show)

Code:

c:/python27/python.exe run_p2pool.py

or from cmd (version: unknown will show)

Code:

c:\python27\python.exe run_p2pool.py

Yes, \ and / is different

[rav3n_pl]

TRC shares splitting problem looks fixed.
Win64 binary on my skydrive.
Win32 binary directly form ForrrestV http://u.forre.st/u/unutoxdj/p2pool_win32_9.4-14-g2f4bec4.zip

[rav3n_pl]

Latest git 9.4-17-gbcda544 win32 and win64 binary on my skydrive.
TRC nodes, plz update. There is still at least 2 nodes that cant handle TRC properly and wasting a lot of data stream asking for shares over and over...

[BitCoiner2012]

Excuse me for the dumb question, but how do I look at my stats and graphs ? I know it's the PC IP but what is the total adresss...?

[sharky112065]

Excuse me for the dumb question, but how do I look at my stats and graphs ? I know it's the PC IP but what is the total adresss...?

http://ip-address-of-your-p2pool-node-goes-here:9332/static/

So, if you are running it all on the same computer it would be:

http://127.0.0.1:9332/static/

Or you could have just done the basic of research and read the OP which would have led you to the wiki.

See the section "Web interface" at the following address:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/P2Pool

In summery, the question was only made dumb because you were too lazy to do any reading for yourself.

Sorry if this is sounding harsh, it just gets old when people keep asking simple information of other people when they have not even bothered to try to find out for themselves.

[rav3n_pl]

Excuse me for the dumb question, but how do I look at my stats and graphs ? I know it's the PC IP but what is the total adresss...?

:9332 for BTC
:9327 for LTC
:9322 for TRC
depends on node type.
It is also written in log, just after node start.

[BitCoiner2012]

Perfectly acceptable, I came back to edit that I learned the solution but was too late. I am a bit of a dumbass :p

[K1773R]

Excuse me for the dumb question, but how do I look at my stats and graphs ? I know it's the PC IP but what is the total adresss...?

http://ip-address-of-your-p2pool-node-goes-here:9332/static/

So, if you are running it all on the same computer it would be:

http://127.0.0.1:9332/static/

Or you could have just done the basic of research and read the OP which would have led you to the wiki.

See the section "Web interface" at the following address:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/P2Pool

In summery, the question was only made dumb because you were too lazy to do any reading for yourself.

Sorry if this is sounding harsh, it just gets old when people keep asking simple information of other people when they have not even bothered to try to find out for themselves.

then why u answer such questions?

[sharky112065]

Excuse me for the dumb question, but how do I look at my stats and graphs ? I know it's the PC IP but what is the total adresss...?

http://ip-address-of-your-p2pool-node-goes-here:9332/static/

So, if you are running it all on the same computer it would be:

http://127.0.0.1:9332/static/

Or you could have just done the basic of research and read the OP which would have led you to the wiki.

See the section "Web interface" at the following address:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/P2Pool

In summery, the question was only made dumb because you were too lazy to do any reading for yourself.

Sorry if this is sounding harsh, it just gets old when people keep asking simple information of other people when they have not even bothered to try to find out for themselves.

then why u answer such questions?

I was in a good mood. Just saw The Hobbit and took a nap. Hopefully calling the person out on it will do some good and he/she will do some basic research next time.

[rav3n_pl]

Perfectly acceptable, I came back to edit that I learned the solution but was too late. I am a bit of a dumbass :p

You can also always: http://bit.ly/ZHDo8R

[svirus]

My getwork latency is 0.211s mean. Had one spike up to 0.8s
I dont know if its good or bad. Whats your latency?
Also how can i optimize?

Use bitcoind from git.
Put bitcoind on SSD disk if you have.
Or use some RAID array.

On my RAID1 (mirror) with 2 disk 10k RPM i have under 0.1 latancy (now  is 0.0539s mean)