hello, anyone knows something about crypto in latvia/riga? searching for companies who accept crypto/xmr and/or searching for p2p trades maybe. thx

<ravfx:xmr.mx> btcdwed: Veesp do

thx ravfx, but i am in riga this week and i am looking for spending crypto at the city

:P

<ravfx:xmr.mx> Oh, have fun then!

thx :P

maybe Stnby / Siren know?

never heard of both

<ravfx:xmr.mx> You don't spend enough time on the chat!

sorry :P

i looked up both, i dont understand why mentioning them :D

everything is fine, have a nice trip sir

<stnby:kernal.eu> maps.app.goo.gl/81A8mCyHt8E4QKQo6 > <btcdwed> thx RavFX, but i am in riga this week and i am looking for spending crypto at the city

<stnby:kernal.eu> Quick search and it seems to accept BTC LN.

<stnby:kernal.eu> Maybe you would be able to brainwash them to do XMR

hello stnby :P

<stnby:kernal.eu> btcdwed: If you take a train to Vilnius I can maybe trade you some cash to XMR

my friend is coming vom vilnius to riga, fuack :D

are you in other channels too, or only here stnby?

<stnby:kernal.eu> Any events happening in Riga?

<stnby:kernal.eu> btcdwed: Most of the channels I am in

we just going there with 5 boys, one had bday

his wife is from vilnius

but we are all friends living in .de

<stnby:kernal.eu> You can give solanabaltics.com a shot. There are some crypto people in Riga as well. And not particularly ones only interested in scamming people with SOL.

:) thank you

<isaac_newton:matrix.org> Do you guys prefer dashes or underscores

<thomasbuilds:matrix.org> everyone here loves em dashes ofc

<isaac_newton:matrix.org> That's what I suspected, I'm on the wrong side of the tracks

<isaac_newton:matrix.org> I think Torvalds prefers underscores tho

<thomasbuilds:matrix.org> (the person this sarcastic message was directed to got banned)

<slowbeardigger:matrix.org> em dash em dash em dasssshh

<thomasbuilds:matrix.org> everyone here actually hates em dashes lol

<thomasbuilds:matrix.org> you can't even type em

<thomasbuilds:matrix.org> (pun intended)

<jacoblightning3:matrix.org> @thomasbuilds:matrix.org: —

<jacoblightning3:matrix.org> Of course you can. Just press Ctrl Shift U 2014 🤪

<slowbeardigger:matrix.org> Hello — I am not a clanker.

<slowbeardigger:matrix.org> speaking of clankers, 1 prompt to GPT astra and my usage is GONE xD

--

<slowbeardigger:matrix.org> —

<slowbeardigger:matrix.org> Lol, in macos if you - - (with no space) gives you the em dash

<slowbeardigger:matrix.org> — just found out

<xorchi2:matrix.org> —

<slowbeardigger:matrix.org> —

<xorchi2:matrix.org> Why does the sign — now seem to be a sign of writing AI?

<slowbeardigger:matrix.org> Most ppl don’t use em dashes

<slowbeardigger:matrix.org> and it feels artificial

<ravfx:xmr.mx> There also not on keyboard (except if you have a mac and press --).

<ravfx:xmr.mx> So human dont go out of there wat to make an horizontal |

the daemon keeps throwing me "bad malloc" errors, but only once the chain is like. >97% synced

no corresponding errors in dmesg, my RAM (8gb) and disk (500gb) were both checked separately and are free of hardware faults afaict. this has happened on multiple different drives, across multiple different syncs, and even after manually exporting the chain from my old node and importing it to the new one. without fail, monerod throws bad mallocs once the chain is up to a few months ago

it's stopping sync cold and preventing the node from working so i can't decommission my old one.

any ideas?

<jpk68:matrix.org> Is it using too much memory?

idts, watching htop concurrently and it looks like it's only ever using about 3-4 gigs at peak. and no other services running on the machine except tor

recpar: OS/CPU architecture? disk file system? latest monerod?

arch, x86 (7th gen i3), ext4, yes latest monerod

binary from package manager, or from getmonero?

i've tried both, same error each time

also tried building myself, same issue

it's been an irksome couple weeks lol

can you start with log level 2 and share 30 log lines before and after that malloc issue?

yup

3706880 is the last checkpoint, does the issue happen before or after that height?

lemme look

right after that checkpoint it looks like

gonna do log level 2 now, was just lessing through the old logs for that

You can also try with `--block-sync-size 1 --prep-blocks-threads 1` after the logs to see if it continues.

right I did not ask yet, do you have an obscure config?

no not really, just TOR

setting parameters too high?

they're left at defaults for the most part

with --tx-proxy, --proxy or some external tool like torsocks for Tor?

the former

p2p bind to localhost, in-peers and out-peers limited for resource reasons but both reasonable values

i set dv sync mode to safe as well this morning to see if it'd help, no dice

db*

and have been using xmr since 2017 fwiw

it must be something non obvious since we did not get any other reports about this

yes I was about to suggest that next

do you use systemd to run monerod?

and did you set things like MemoryDenyWriteExecute?

right after loading lmdb checkpoints the error hit. lemme get the logs into a pastebin

And valgrind, since it seems to be failing fast now.

ohh, looks like large pages failing

should still continue with large pages failing

does starting monerod with MONERO_RANDOMX_UMASK=8 work?

i'll try now

log level 2 ^

nothing in the logs so far

<ofrnxmr> Using master?

<ofrnxmr> Db percent used > than threshold, so it should be about to do a resize

it was doing resizes fine before. and the rx umask did not fix it @selsta

this rules out JIT related issues

ofrnxmr: have tried binaries from OS package manager, getmonero, and self-compiled. all same issue

I would try to sync without `--proxy` to rule out Tor related network issues as the next step.

downloading gigabytes of blocks over Tor is likely slow

i have already tried that, same issues

first two syncs trying to get this node up were over clearnet last month

<ofrnxmr> the resize could be a red herring, but ive had segfaults and such over failed resizes. and from my experiences, only master would let you get to the threshold before the resize, and release will resize by far more than necessary

for next step I need more log lines, they did not show enough, like 500

or 1000

and also a sync_info output

<ofrnxmr> so the 90% makes me think this was synced to current height using master, and its strange that the log doesnt show an attempt to resize, since it should

i synced to current height with release a few times, but this specific copy this time is synced via blockchain-import from my old node (the one i am trying to replace with this one) because i wanted to see if that'd circumvent the bad alloc.

bad_alloc is unrelated, it's not the issue here

<ofrnxmr> .. also worth a shot, is testing a fresh sync ./monerod --data-dir=no-checkpoints --fast-block-sync=0 --log-level=2 to see if that dies much earlier

<ofrnxmr> But try selsta suggestions first, im juat shooting in the dark

it looks like the chain import has resulted in the same bad alloc errors BUT now the sync is continuing anyways?

about 50 blocks/min

this was not true previously, filtering for "Synced" in the logs would yield nothing after the bad allocs, but now i'm seeing continued progress even after. so i am gonna wait for sync to finish before bothering y'all more :)

I'd remove Tor, you are getting bandwidth throttled

<ofrnxmr> Oh, wait. The node stopped syncing but didnt crash?

correct

<ofrnxmr> sync_info output in that state tells the story there

selsta i'm <10k blocks behind so it barely matters, and i have other stuff to do today anways

<ofrnxmr> next time it stops, run sync_info and upload to paste plz & thx

will do, tysm for y'all's help

hello, i am mining with very low hash rate, for about a week straight, is there any chance of gaining moneroj???

urnik how much time do you have?

p.s. i am newbie

it may take months

i use p2pool mini and xmrig

there is p2pool nano for even smaller hashrates

there are some p2pool rooms on here lik #p2pool-log

oh ok, so you aren't solo mining. with a pool is way easier and all depends on the average success rate of that specific pool

yea i saw that, i think is more appropriate for my rate

look at their website and check if they publish any statistics

i am in #p2pool-mini

ah okay nice

<zxcasdqweqwe:matrix.org> Hi, do you know a reliable way I can buy Monero (p2p) then transfer it to my personal wallet from Philippines?

<jpk68:matrix.org> Buy another coin and swap it into Monero using Haveno/Trocador/etc.

<jpk68:matrix.org> coinatmradar.com

<jpk68:matrix.org> ^ You can often purchase BTC/LTC with cash at an ATM

<zxcasdqweqwe:matrix.org> will this approach work via binance? I have binance acc, tho binance is blocked in the ph, so we just use VPN

<jpk68:matrix.org> Sure, as long as you have some way to acquire another coin. After that, it's pretty easy to swap to XMR

<zxcasdqweqwe:matrix.org> @jpk68:matrix.org: have you tried it? You think binance will allow me to withdraw/transfer XMR to my personal wallet?

<jpk68:matrix.org> No, that's not what I'm saying. You can purchase a different coin, like Bitcoin, withdraw that to your personal wallet, and then swap it for XMR (not in Binance).

<jpk68:matrix.org> As always, please follow all the local laws in your jurisdiction ;)

<zxcasdqweqwe:matrix.org> @jpk68:matrix.org: ok, because I'm thinking to receive Monero using the GUI wallet.

<zxcasdqweqwe:matrix.org> So what kind of wallet do you recommend? one that can receive bitcoin/usdt and convert it to Monero?

<yahniukov:matrix.yahniukov.com> @zxcasdqweqwe:matrix.org: Fiat -> binance usdc -> cake wallet polygon usdc -> swap via trocador to cake wallet monero (-> optionally send received monero to another monero wallet - this way money will be practically untraceable)

<jpk68:matrix.org> @zxcasdqweqwe:matrix.org: 1. Purchase Bitcoin on Binance

<jpk68:matrix.org> 2. Download the Monero GUI and create a new wallet

<jpk68:matrix.org> 3. Send Bitcoin to Trocador, who will then send Monero to your wallet in exchange

<jpk68:matrix.org> The route suggested by the other guy above could work as well :)

<zxcasdqweqwe:matrix.org> ok, thanks thanks, will try this

<ofrnxmr:xmr.mx> @yahniukov:matrix.yahniukov.com: this involves holding a bunch of coins to pay gas

<ofrnxmr:xmr.mx> just use btc or ltc ..