Quote from: gyverlb on March 15, 2013, 12:47:36 AM

If you don't have this problem, you should raise the blockmaxsize value instead to get more income:

Code:

blockmaxsize=1000000 #default is 500000

This is the maximum value allowed by the Bitcoin protocol. There are lots of unconfirmed transactions with low fees just waiting for P2Pool users to mine them and get the benefits. You should only use lower values if all other means of saving bandwidth don't work without lowering your efficiency (lowering the number of connections from both bitcoind and P2Pool as shown above). Lowering this setting not only lowers your income, it lowers every other P2Pool user's income too.

Was looking into using blockmaxsize=1000000 and started digging into the source code for bitcoin to confirm it's benefits.

Found that in 0.9.0rc1 it is increasing the default -blockmaxsize to 750K and that it is the MAXIMUM size for mined blocks.

/** Default for -blockmaxsize, maximum size for mined blocks **/ static const unsigned int DEFAULT_BLOCK_MAX_SIZE = 750000;

The old version was:
-/** The maximum size for mined blocks */ -static const unsigned int MAX_BLOCK_SIZE_GEN = MAX_BLOCK_SIZE/2; (500K)

Unless I'm missing something does this show that setting blockmaxsize=1000000 has no effect on mined blocks?

Source:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commit/ad898b40aaf06c1cc7ac12e953805720fc9217c0