Guys, I have low getblock latency, Matt's relay, plenty of bitcoind peers and a handful of p2pool peers yet I'm seeing almost 50% orphan shares. What could be the issue?
I would try and find some closer peers and add them with -n when starting p2pool...
Only 2 of your peers are under 100ms away, the others are much further:
"218.16.212.194:9333": 335.9999656677246
"115.70.176.17:9333": 14.999866485595703
"178.63.18.3:9333": 312.999963760376
"59.167.237.19:9333": 31.000137329101562
"198.72.112.205:9333": 226.99999809265137
"73.20.171.64:9333": 233.99996757507324
"58.22.92.36:51905": 359.9998950958252
"92.251.43.47:1138": 383.00013542175293
"185.59.16.32:9333": 296.9999313354492
"95.154.200.216:9333": 289.0000343322754
Yeah that's because the server is in Australia. Not many peers to choose from nearby.