Topic: [XPM] [ANN] Primecoin Release - First Scientific Computing Cryptocurrency - page 66. (Read 688812 times)
July 22, 2013, 04:27:31 PM
It is not an attack. It's an issue in the miner that doesn't handle large block efficiently. A fix is being tested. Both the stock miner and mikaelh's miner are impacted.
July 22, 2013, 04:26:47 PM
Some weird stuff going on, weird block delays. What if we've hit the boundry between what the network can handle, and what the difficulty expects us to handle, and that's why we are flip flopping between mining and waiting.
A few really large transactions seem to be causing performance issues with mining for some reason.
July 22, 2013, 04:25:34 PM
Some weird stuff going on, weird block delays. What if we've hit the boundry between what the network can handle, and what the difficulty expects us to handle, and that's why we are flip flopping between mining and waiting.
July 22, 2013, 04:24:16 PM
Panic selling at mcxnow.com.... Wonder what those miners with 100K+ PPS are gonna do now. haha 
Same thing I am. Wait a few hours for it to sort itself out. July 22, 2013, 04:19:11 PM
Looks like the bad transactions are still coming in.
Couple of examples that look like the culprits:
4d19a79179e1c8a811241fb990023fa7754ad3856b8b41aef7bd9b5d4c9020f2
e245be126ff2f18496193bf90331de55a5c6645abaed793968a4bf65299e526f
Couple of examples that look like the culprits:
4d19a79179e1c8a811241fb990023fa7754ad3856b8b41aef7bd9b5d4c9020f2
e245be126ff2f18496193bf90331de55a5c6645abaed793968a4bf65299e526f
Those transactions of hundreds of inputs, but is that really supposed to be an issue? Does bitcoin handle large transactions like this?
Maybe primecoin is doing something like accidentally hashing the whole block repeatedly somewhere it shouldn't during mining.
Either someone is moving some epic volume or the network is being attacked to cause panic sells.
July 22, 2013, 04:16:06 PM
Looks like the bad transactions are still coming in.
Couple of examples that look like the culprits:
4d19a79179e1c8a811241fb990023fa7754ad3856b8b41aef7bd9b5d4c9020f2
e245be126ff2f18496193bf90331de55a5c6645abaed793968a4bf65299e526f
Couple of examples that look like the culprits:
4d19a79179e1c8a811241fb990023fa7754ad3856b8b41aef7bd9b5d4c9020f2
e245be126ff2f18496193bf90331de55a5c6645abaed793968a4bf65299e526f
Those transactions have of hundreds of inputs, but is that really supposed to be an issue? Does bitcoin handle large transactions like this?
Maybe primecoin is doing something like accidentally hashing the whole block repeatedly somewhere it shouldn't during mining.
July 22, 2013, 04:13:12 PM
The block explorer is still probably a bit buggy in some places. If it's correct for this bit, then someone is sending transactions to transfer batches of 10k XPM.
Probably a big miner getting ready for his dump.
I'm already seeing 14k+ dumps on mcxnow.com
July 22, 2013, 04:08:15 PM
The block explorer is still probably a bit buggy in some places. If it's correct for this bit, then someone is sending transactions to transfer batches of 10k XPM.
July 22, 2013, 04:05:16 PM
All of my miners were showing much lower primespersec values. I restarted all but one. After letting them warm up again, I noticed that the more recently restarted ones had 0 or 1 currentblocktx and a small currentblocksize, and the still slow miner had currentblocktx 9 and currentblocksize > 70000. Now a few minutes later, all of my miners are slow again and back at that point. Maybe those pending transactions contain some sort of denial-of-service attack? (Or maybe they're just unusual but legitimate and the client chokes on them.)
Seems like it.
Jesus blocksize for 78,242 is 202,878 and there are 19 tx.
The block 78414 was listed as having over 10 tx but there is only 1 showing up in the block explorer.
Strange...
block 78,242?
I'm at 78425.
Sorry, block 78,424. It was a typo.
http://primecoin.21stcenturymoneytalk.org/index.php?block_hash=500caad077bcc16b2d92141b46bffe28f17206b5a7d067d2ae9b897391a10495
Definitely something strange going on. Blocksize is only 208 and there are no transactions. They were pushed back to block 78,425
July 22, 2013, 04:04:08 PM
Looks like the bad transactions are still coming in.
Couple of examples that look like the culprits:
4d19a79179e1c8a811241fb990023fa7754ad3856b8b41aef7bd9b5d4c9020f2
e245be126ff2f18496193bf90331de55a5c6645abaed793968a4bf65299e526f
Couple of examples that look like the culprits:
4d19a79179e1c8a811241fb990023fa7754ad3856b8b41aef7bd9b5d4c9020f2
e245be126ff2f18496193bf90331de55a5c6645abaed793968a4bf65299e526f
July 22, 2013, 04:02:58 PM
All of my miners were showing much lower primespersec values. I restarted all but one. After letting them warm up again, I noticed that the more recently restarted ones had 0 or 1 currentblocktx and a small currentblocksize, and the still slow miner had currentblocktx 9 and currentblocksize > 70000. Now a few minutes later, all of my miners are slow again and back at that point. Maybe those pending transactions contain some sort of denial-of-service attack? (Or maybe they're just unusual but legitimate and the client chokes on them.)
Seems like it.
Jesus blocksize for 78,242 is 202,878 and there are 19 tx.
The block 78414 was listed as having over 10 tx but there is only 1 showing up in the block explorer.
Strange...
I'm at 78425.
Derp, I forgot how to math. 78425 > 78242.
July 22, 2013, 04:00:45 PM
All of my miners were showing much lower primespersec values. I restarted all but one. After letting them warm up again, I noticed that the more recently restarted ones had 0 or 1 currentblocktx and a small currentblocksize, and the still slow miner had currentblocktx 9 and currentblocksize > 70000. Now a few minutes later, all of my miners are slow again and back at that point. Maybe those pending transactions contain some sort of denial-of-service attack? (Or maybe they're just unusual but legitimate and the client chokes on them.)
Seems like it.
Jesus blocksize for 78,424 is 202,878 and there are 19 tx.
The block 78414 was listed as having over 10 tx but there is only 1 showing up in the block explorer.
Strange...
July 22, 2013, 03:58:01 PM
All of my miners were showing much lower primespersec values. I restarted all but one. After letting them warm up again, I noticed that the more recently restarted ones had 0 or 1 currentblocktx and a small currentblocksize, and the still slow miner had currentblocktx 9 and currentblocksize > 70000. Now a few minutes later, all of my miners are slow again and back at that point. Maybe those pending transactions contain some sort of denial-of-service attack? (Or maybe they're just unusual but legitimate and the client chokes on them.)
July 22, 2013, 03:57:15 PM
Is everyone here using mikaelh's build?
I haven't tested Sunny's yet but with mikaelh's, my PPS stays at about 100% (~600) for about an hour or so, then rapidly drops down to 10% (~60).
I'll switch one of my miners over to Sunny's build and see if the problem gets solved.
If this bug affects everyone, it could explain why the PPS dropped so much.
I haven't tested Sunny's yet but with mikaelh's, my PPS stays at about 100% (~600) for about an hour or so, then rapidly drops down to 10% (~60).
I'll switch one of my miners over to Sunny's build and see if the problem gets solved.
If this bug affects everyone, it could explain why the PPS dropped so much.
Anyone have that issue, check your currentblocksize, it's too big.
It's at 202233 right now.
Didn't know blocksize affected PPS but I guess that could explain why.
July 22, 2013, 03:53:45 PM
Is everyone here using mikaelh's build?
I haven't tested Sunny's yet but with mikaelh's, my PPS stays at about 100% (~600) for about an hour or so, then rapidly drops down to 10% (~60).
I'll switch one of my miners over to Sunny's build and see if the problem gets solved.
If this bug affects everyone, it could explain why the PPS dropped so much.
I haven't tested Sunny's yet but with mikaelh's, my PPS stays at about 100% (~600) for about an hour or so, then rapidly drops down to 10% (~60).
I'll switch one of my miners over to Sunny's build and see if the problem gets solved.
If this bug affects everyone, it could explain why the PPS dropped so much.
Anyone have that issue, check your currentblocksize, it's too big.
July 22, 2013, 03:50:17 PM
Is everyone here using mikaelh's build?
I haven't tested Sunny's yet but with mikaelh's, my PPS stays at about 100% (~600) for about an hour or so, then rapidly drops down to 10% (~60).
I'll switch one of my miners over to Sunny's build and see if the problem gets solved.
If this bug affects everyone, it could explain why the PPS dropped so much.
I haven't tested Sunny's yet but with mikaelh's, my PPS stays at about 100% (~600) for about an hour or so, then rapidly drops down to 10% (~60).
I'll switch one of my miners over to Sunny's build and see if the problem gets solved.
If this bug affects everyone, it could explain why the PPS dropped so much.
July 22, 2013, 03:40:58 PM
Miners pulled out?
No. My logfile shows a drastic decline of PPS over the last 45 minutes or so. Plus there's a lot of transactions somewhere. I think we've has slow blocks before, but not *that* slow.
Would be interesting to know if this was a glitch or a deliberate attack...
July 22, 2013, 03:40:31 PM
Anyone else having wallet sync issues?
Lots of sync issues... Started with block 78414 and continued with most of the succeeding blocks (until 78421 which is the "current" block of my most actual miner). Seems to be related to the size which is > 200k 
July 22, 2013, 03:38:10 PM
And we have liftoff people, block has been solved.
I'm now interested, what caused this?
I'm now interested, what caused this?
July 22, 2013, 03:35:00 PM
Anyone else having wallet sync issues?
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