Re: [Sks-devel] Something broken?

[Timothy A. Holtzen]

On 11/17/2016 11:28 AM, Valentin Sundermann wrote:
> Hey,
>
>> Obviously I need to resolve the peer timeout issue but any advice how I
>> might speed up the gossip process in general?  I've noticed looking at
>> the stats that the new/updated keys seem to come in bursts during a
>> window between 1 and 3 am.  I suspect that too could be causing my
>> server to drop out of the list until it has a chance to catch up.
> I can confirm these issues too. I have a status page with bar charts[1]
> on which these peaks are clearly visible. Iirc, the peaks started
> something around three months ago (maybe something with the evil32
> upload?). There also was a 4-day stop of these peaks with one big peak
> at it's ending (2016-10-31 - 2016-11-04).
>
> What's interesting too is, only that there are only peaks for new keys
> and not for both, new and updated keys. Do these sync differently?
>
> I couldn't find the time to debug yet. But maybe I this is helpful anyways.
>
> Best regards,
> Valentin Sundermann
>
Setting up Kristian's cron job to dump the stats every hour seems to
have resolved my issue of falling out of the pool at least for now. 
However can someone explain how the diff files are used for recon?  In
the process of trouble shooting I noticed that the diff files for
several of my peers seem to consistently have over 100 hashes in them. 
Assuming I'm communicating with those peers should the number of hashes
drop back down?  If so does having a large number of hashes in the diff
file indicate a problem?  I also have a number of diff files that appear
to be for peers that no longer exist or have been de-listed.  Is it safe
to remove these files?


Timothy A. Holtzen
Campus Network Administrator
Nebraska Wesleyan University
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