02:58:39 <selsta> .merges
02:58:39 -xmr-pr- 8203 9114 9338 9345 9346 9347
17:38:57 <SyntheticBird> ArticMine: 
17:39:10 <SyntheticBird> oops misstyped sry
19:03:29 <spackle> For anyone who might care: I am currently stress testing monerod with a private testnet. I am running 10 nodes on my machine and filling the mempool. If anyone would like to join me just let me know and we can add you to the network.
19:12:35 <SyntheticBird> spackle I'm interested
19:15:57 <spackle> Awesome! I may as well give the starting instructions here:
19:16:20 <spackle> To get started get a testnet node set up and pop blocks or sync to block 2000000. (this gives us a test environment using the current version while being far enough behind the testnet to prevent our spam from being written to the actual network.)
19:17:06 <spackle> Then, as you may already know, we just need to trade node info and use --add-exclusive-node to connect.
19:21:45 <spackle> Making sure the node is sync'd to height <= 2000000 is the important part, as if anyone connects with a fully sync'd testnet I believe it will destroy my test environment. I have created some backups, but it would be a significant setback as my test setup can only do ~15 tps of 1in/2out and it takes a day or so to fill the mempool at that rate.
19:34:22 <SyntheticBird> spackle I updated my node and restarted to testnet. Waiting for it to sync <= 2000000
19:35:24 <SyntheticBird> Can you send me your node info in dm
19:35:30 <SyntheticBird> or share it
19:41:01 <spackle> I have port forwarded a private testnet node p2p port to stressnet.net:29000
19:41:33 <SyntheticBird> Thx, will connect to it once it synced to the correct height
19:41:34 <spackle> but no one will be able to connect there unless I relaunch the node with --add-exclusive-node YOURNODE:YOURPORT
19:42:12 <SyntheticBird> oh, I do not have port forwarding for my node
19:43:05 <SyntheticBird> hold on, I'll take a VPS
19:50:05 <SyntheticBird> spackle may I dm you my node info
19:50:23 <spackle> certainly, please do