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mircea_popescu: different from the orphan, which is "block with no known connection to the hcain"
mircea_popescu: decimation i know, but this is a major server doing all sorts of other things. it could not stand for five minutes if that were the problem.
mircea_popescu: <jurov> otherwise either kernel stalls or pipe is congested(dropped packets, whatever) << i thought this may well be it previously, as load was uncharacteristically high for this application. but solved that problem and apparently no improvement.
mircea_popescu is trying to bootstrap the public interest in the matter into getting a networking education for himself.
mircea_popescu: essentially the adult version of "but daddy, all the kids in class got this question wrong too!"
mircea_popescu: because yes, the point of life is to preserve that most valuable delusion - that "nobody could have foreseen..."
mircea_popescu: i'd withdraw anything i had in that shithole by now, had i not withdrawn it long before, had i had anything in there in the first place.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> or why those filthy laptops can come anywhere near their 'hot wallet key' << this is easy enough to answer, if you think about it. and if you don't... if you let history be your guide.
mircea_popescu: so they spent 250k (abnd counting) so as to lose 4mn off a schmuck's home connection ?
mircea_popescu: decimation yes, but this server would not stand if that were the case.
mircea_popescu: we know we can actually pass data between each other. what we wish to find out is what causes this behaviour and who to kill.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field nuts. i tell you ... the load is < .2 and has not peaked above 1 (this is on 8 cpu machine). there is nothing deferred or anthing suspicious in the logs. the eth card is doing fine. two dozen connections, routinely hitting 1mbps. etc.
mircea_popescu: because we live in the best possible world built on top of !!!science!!! so nothing is ever sold by any sort of spec.
mircea_popescu: there are many considerations here. for instance, as an exercise to the trainee : calculate the minimum storage space required to GUARANTEE bit=wise identity over X bytes of information.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it is interesting to point out that the first 2 gb blockindes fit a whopping 188k blocks
mircea_popescu: from experience, most people's understanding of cryptography is comensurate with your average 1700s peasants' understanding of contraception.
mircea_popescu: i am willing to take any odds on "he doesn't know this exists"
mircea_popescu: i think some implementations end up with different gaps between them or something.
mircea_popescu: decimation well, it's so to speak "unstrained" if you're there, and "strained" if you hear about it later.
mircea_popescu: i was doing like 5 things at once past coupla days and so ended up leaving all sorts of things unexplained fully.
mircea_popescu: nah, they had the "unsustainable" crapola on the back burner for a coupla years, as they were hoping they may actually elbow themselves into relevancy all through 2013-14
mircea_popescu: go sustain yourselves on cocks, nameless "journalists".
mircea_popescu: like doesn't want you gaming or whatever the nutty fuck ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i can at this point guarantee to you it is not due to this machine.
mircea_popescu: which hate has apparently saved a bit of internet comedy from extinction.
mircea_popescu: i mean, there were occasional spikes in load in the previous incarnation, and i figured those may be it. but now it's smooth as butter.
mircea_popescu: ok so last time there was a bona fide index/db problem, which made it be slow and painful.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile they figured out how to make the old games run in emulator.
mircea_popescu: i've last used windows xp a decade ago to play might and magic.
mircea_popescu: the seeder is coming back online momentarily. for my own curiosity, re-start the syncing and compare the two sets you get.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field : LoadBlockIndex(): hashBestChain=00000000000000001160 height=362808 << confirmed. my chain is fine, delay and difficulties to date due to operator error.
mircea_popescu: "i got a new girlfriend - she came with a built in boyfriend!"
mircea_popescu: "oh you know, if your head needs to take a walk - now it can!"
mircea_popescu: i really don't get this "put all the things in all the things" nonsense.
mircea_popescu: that's ok, they'll make it back OUT OF BEING LEGAL AND COMPLIANT!!11
mircea_popescu: how does this shit even work ? can their word editor open net connections !?
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