asciilifeform: (am i terminologically addled, or do i misunderstand what is prb)
asciilifeform: as far as i can tell, they are running very lightly-modified old prb.
asciilifeform: (diddling a version number is not reengineering, nor the der encoding thing)
asciilifeform: all i can say is that i have nfi. but i have no evidence that anyone other than mircea_popescu and trb folks did any serious re-engineering re: the client.
asciilifeform: for all i know they were running prb with ~one line~ patched.
asciilifeform: they were not running ~latest prb~ aha
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: we have 'milk brothers'
asciilifeform: trinque: however you try to dance around the problem, must come to terms with the fact that ~some~ trb nodes must talk to the heathens ~some~ of the time, or NO BLOCKS
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re: the contest, i can speak only for myself, but i've had enough. wake me up when you've also had enough.
asciilifeform: 'Another curious pattern that emerged during the later stage of the sync process were long delays (4-5 min) during which data was still coming in through the network at a high rate but both disk and CPU were relatively idle and little or no chain updating was occurring. ' << blackhole.
asciilifeform: it comes from organized shit-tx ddos.
asciilifeform: 'During the last 10% of the blockchain sync, both the WAIT column of "top" and the furious clicking of disk heads revealed that disk activity was becoming a quite obvious bottleneck, leading to the CPU going idle for longer and longer periods.'
