Hi all.  Thought I'd check out p2pool for my local 16.5TH of mining.

Happy to say it all went smoothly for doing straight bitcoin mining.  Saw a few python exceptions during startup, but once it got initialized, it appears to be working fine.

I'm not having as much luck with merged mining bitcoin and namecoin.

Syntactically all appears fine, and initialization proceeds as above.  However I see:



Reoccurring frequently in the console output.  All my miners are also showing a Diff of 1, which is a change.

Any thoughts?

Edit:  Also seem to be stuck at 8 connections, even though I'm starting up with " --max-conns=256" and my bitcoind has 19 connections.

Pool stats at:  http://ngspoe.carpenter-farms.us:9332/static/

Update:  Found my stupid mistake, was specifying namecoins coin port instead of the rpcport on the --merged line.  The Diff of 1 also cleared itself up after a few minutes.

Still concerned about the number of connections being low.  Any thoughts on how to encourage more of them?