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Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:32:00 +0200
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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] DNS seeds returning gone peers
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On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 10:48 -0400, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net> wrote:
> >> There's a bigger problem here honestly. The p2p network is just starved
> >> for connectable slots.
> >
> > Suggestions:
> > - massively increasing all the anti-DoS limits in 0.4, so far they've caused
> > a lot more damage than they solved.
They were redone in .24 to the point that they should not cause any such
issues in the future.
> 
> You can't "massively increase" the number of available connection
> slots without risking running nodes on lower memory systems (e.g. VMs)
> out of memory.
> 
> Moreover, 125 slots should be more than enough.  We need to figure out
> why it isn't.
Agreed.