Number of connections
Is there some hard-coded maximum limit for the amount of connections? I see 45 connections atm. It’s been growing nicely in the last months. Just can’t get that many coins anymore…
Nodes stop trying to initiate connections once they have 15. If you can accept incoming connections, then you can get well above that from nodes connecting to you, otherwise you max out at 15.
I don’t know if there’s any reason to have 15 connections. Maybe it should be 10.
Since nodes that can only connect out are probably at or near 15 most of the time now, you should level off to an equilibrium. 45 suggests a ratio of 3 out-only nodes to every 1 in-accepting node.
The number of connections won’t be a good gauge of the size of the network any more. Someone should periodically IRC to the bitcoin channel on chat.freenode.net and count the number of users. That gives you the total count of network nodes (except TOR nodes).
Block generation is again running ahead of pace. We’re in for another big step up in difficulty at the next adjustment in about 5 days.
Nodes stop trying to initiate connections once they have 15.
Are you sure about that? I get 30+ connections easily! I have port 8333 open, but I can’t exactly believe everynode of the network connects to me. (I’m running version 0.2, downloaded from the website.)
Quote from: satoshi on February 21, 2010, 3:43:48 AM UTCNodes stop trying to initiate connections once they have 15.
Are you sure about that? I get 30+ connections easily! I have port 8333 open, but I can’t exactly believe everynode of the network connects to me. (I’m running version 0.2, downloaded from the website.)
The client stops making outgoing connections once it has 15 connections but if your port is open it continues accepting incoming connections from other clients which haven’t yet connected to 15 clients. If the port isn’t open, it can’t accept incoming connections so it will never connect to more than 15 clients.
Quote from: Xunie on March 01, 2010, 1:06:07 AM UTCQuote from: satoshi on February 21, 2010, 3:43:48 AM UTCNodes stop trying to initiate connections once they have 15.
Are you sure about that? I get 30+ connections easily! I have port 8333 open, but I can’t exactly believe everynode of the network connects to me. (I’m running version 0.2, downloaded from the website.)
The client stops making outgoing connections once it has 15 connections but if your port is open it continues accepting incoming connections from other clients which haven’t yet connected to 15 clients. If the port isn’t open, it can’t accept incoming connections so it will never connect to more than 15 clients.
It does however seem unreal, if some people only get 8 and I can get 40+. We should make a user-pickable connection limit, for both incoming and outgoing connections.