Hello there, I’ve just set up my p2pool and now I have a few doubts and I hope someone can help me, and future p2pool owners.
I’ll be updating this message with the answers from the community, so I want to thank you all for the help you can provide.
Here is a guide to help with the p2pool adjustments: [url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=153232.0]https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=153232.0[/url]
Remember to update your software. Feathercoind Server version 0.8.5, p2pool version 13.4-9-g6904250-dirty. I think this is the most updated versions, correct me if I’m wrong.
Question: What is the most important thing to manage a p2pool?
Answer: Patience.
1. By the hash rate of the p2pool we should find a new block every 3 or 4 hours, witch would be 8 to 6 blocks a day, but I’m getting only 4 or 5 blocks a day, it is just bad luck or there are something wrong with p2pool?
2. I have 10 nodes in the network.py why am I only getting 6 out? It’s good to have a lot of connections? What are the differences between peers out and in?
Answer: You can change the number of peers out adding the --outgoing-conns to you run_p2pool.py script. You need to have some peers referenced so that you can connect to the p2pool network, here it is a list: [url=http://pool.maeh.org/ftc/p2pools/]http://pool.maeh.org/ftc/p2pools/[/url]
3. I have a lot of orphaned shares ~24% it is normal or too high?
Answer: It looks like that 24% of orphaned shares it’s not too much. And now it comes patience: when I wrote this question I was running my p2pool for almost 24 hours, now with a bit more than 48 the orphaned shares are down to 19%, so I think we must be patient before we check the results.
4. I’m using cgminer to mine, it automatically connects with stratum. Its that ok or I need to force it to use longpool?
Answer: If cgminer automatically connects with stratum it’s good, so keep it. Any input for other miners would be nice.
5. The settings in cgminer “Queueâ€, “Scantime†and “Expirity†need to be adjusted for p2pool or not? I’m asking this for cgminer but I imagine that other miners also have this kind of settings, so the question goes for all.
Answer: If you are using cgminer with stratum set the “Queue” to 0, still waiting for the rest of parameters.
6. There are any problems for using different ports in the settings of feathercoind and p2pool? Do we all need to have the same ports?
7. Why am I getting so many HW when I connect my miner to my p2pool? Is there a way to change difficulty of the mining shares?
Answer: When we first connect the p2pool will give the miner the default shares witch in some cases are just to easy and everything goes messy inside the graphic card, but if you wait a little bit it will gradually increase difficulty and everything will work fine. To avoid this, or to tweak the miner for better performance (I’m saying this but have no scientific proof) you can change the difficulty by adding a number to your username as seen here: [url=http://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php/topic,2845.msg26064.html#msg26064]http://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php/topic,2845.msg26064.html#msg26064[/url] or you can [quote]Take a look at the main page of ftcpool.nl regarding this.[/quote].
here is my p2pool , just in case you want to take a look.
[url=http://44.218.22.95.dynamic.jazztel.es:19327]85.10.223.87.dynamic.jazztel.es:19327[/url]
That’s it for now, for sure new questions will arise, thank you for your time reading this.