Quote from: freakfantom on February 07, 2012, 07:30:32 AM

I'm using Windows x64. I installed Python 2.7 x64, Twisted x64, unzipped Zope.Interface x64, but when I try to see the graphs I get the following "Install python-rrdtool!". Searching Google for python-rrdtool didn't help to find a compiled version. Any help would be appreciated.

Here's one binary I found, though I haven't tested it, and is really old: http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/contrib/rrdtool-1.2.12-python-2.4-win32.zip You might have to install all 32-bit Python and libraries to be able to use it... Because of how annoying rrdtool-python is, I'm planning to switch to PyRRD soon, which just calls rrdtool.exe. Waiting for that might be easier..

Quote from: rjk on February 07, 2012, 04:20:31 PM

Forrestv, any plans to make it possible to run P2Pool as a Windows service? Although bitcoind doesn't have the native capability, I found a script that would make it work here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=43446.0

I don't really know much about Windows services.. but it looks like you could use the other approach mentioned on that thread, also seen here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/137890 P2Pool doesn't require any special stop procedure and won't be hurt if you kill it.

Quote from: kstepyra on February 07, 2012, 05:27:36 PM

Isn't making P2Pool big (let's say 50% of bitcoin total hash rate) a bad scenario? this will affect bigger variance and wait time for every miner, especially those small?
With 50% of total network speed and 10 000 miners (we have 10 000 ghashes/s so its even more than 20k GPUs mining) we will have 1 block every 20 minutes - so every 120 p2pool shares if i get them right. That will give miner a chance (assuming every miner is at same speed) of finding block equal to (20mins/10sec)/10 000 = 1.2% every 2 mined blocks in network.. to hit any block he will need to wait 166.66 blocks which is more than one day (1day = 144 blocks) for average chance of payout equal to his work.

This is correct, though if what happens we can simply split P2Pool into multiple pools. A single pool has no need for more than 10% of the total hashrate, so if we reach that point, we'll begin creating new, separate P2Pools.