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23 Oct 2023

Monero's Proof of Work algorithm (RandomX) and related topics. Use #p2pool-log and #p2pool-mini for P2Pool discussions. Anti-spam active: PM hyc for voice.

• 02:05
  hyc
  selsta: this is your PR branch
• 02:06
  hyc
  89% 2674083 / 3001801 now. CPU use is up so it's actually verifying things now
• 02:26
  hyc
  print_net_stats
• 02:26
  hyc
  Received 101279858683 bytes (94.32 GB) in 12511521 packets in 1.2 days, average 928.62 kB/s = 11.34% of the limit of 8.00 MB/s
• 02:26
  hyc
  Sent 98564703 bytes (94.00 MB) in 89665 packets in 1.2 days, average 925 B/s = 0.04% of the limit of 2.00 MB/s
• 02:27
  hyc
  94MB seems like a lot of sent traffic considering all it's doing is syncing from an --add-exclusive-node on the LAN
• 10:57
  plowsof
  this "isnt a big deal as this is something that is called once every ~3 days and we're talking about speeding up by a few hundred of milliseconds, " but worth a look reddit.com/r/MoneroMining/comments/…312_improved_randomx_initialization
• 11:26
  sech1
  I commented there
• 11:44
  selsta
  hyc: I have two open, one for master and one for release
• 11:44
  selsta
  if you use the release branch it will have more up to date checkpoints
• 11:45
  selsta
  we update the checkpoints in master branch less regularly
• 14:31
  hyc
  well I used your branch for PR9028
• 14:42
  selsta
  yea that's from master branch which misses recent checkpoints. if you switch to release-v0.18 it should sync up faster.
• 14:43
  selsta
  or 9029
• 14:45
  hyc
  I'm in no hurry .might as well put this CPU thru its paces
• 14:47
  hyc
  it seems to now be syncing 2 blocks/second
• 14:48
  hyc
  hm, a few more days to go at this rate
• 17:22
  hyc
  meh. I built the v0.18 patch ;)
• 17:22
  hyc
  20 blocks/sec now
• 19:01
  m-relay
  <c​hch3003:monero.social> Hello! Can someone explain the purpose of the recent RandomX update?
• 19:19
  selsta
  which update exactly? the one proposed for a future network upgrade?
• 19:21
  m-relay
  <c​hch3003:monero.social> RandomX 1.2
• 19:21
  m-relay
  <c​hch3003:monero.social> I was watching twitter.com/monerotopia/status/1716484637374177574
• 19:21
  m-relay
  <c​hch3003:monero.social> He talks about it but doesn't really know what it is about
• 19:24
  selsta
  it fixes a bug on macOS ARM that could result in a crash and it added optimized support for RISC-V CPUs
• 19:25
  m-relay
  <c​hch3003:monero.social> Ok thank you :)
• 23:56
  hyc
  gah. my sync failed at 95%, hard error on the SSD.
• 23:56
  hyc
  bad sectors
• 23:56
  m-relay
  <r​ecanman:agoradesk.com> Backup everything while you can (if you haven't already)
• 23:57
  m-relay
  <r​ecanman:agoradesk.com> SSDs will die very quickly once they show any signs of failures
• 23:57
  hyc
  yeah. it's an ld 500GB one, it's been beaten on for a long time
• 23:57
  hyc
  old^
• 23:57
  m-relay
  <r​ecanman:agoradesk.com> Good luck