It seems to be all good, you have connected peers and records were already downloaded, if they keep being connected to peers and accumulate more records for a few hours then it should be fine. Receiving attos is the ultimate proof everything is good, but that may take a few/several days.
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I noticed in the image that it doesnât report the routing table peers which is more useful then the conn peers figure.
Any change of including that figure in addition
Maybe
conn/RT peers: nn/nnn
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That value, ant_networking_peers_in_routing_table from antnodeâs metrics server, is displayed as kBuckets peers.
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Ah OK, I did not recognise that as routing table peers. Most people refer to that as routing table peers in communications etc, so people see them as routing table peers.
Iâll leave it to you as to what to call it
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Hi again,
just want to thank you for making nodrunning possible and fun again as a home user (running launchpad has not worked for me the last mounths):
even got some coins sent on the blockchain:
so very happy and feeling positive about the networks future, some observations if you like to comment:
estimated network size down alot since last screenshot some days ago?
As the load on my computer was so low I 10X the number of nodes. I guess this is no issue until uploads picks up and then my setup will crash when harddrive overfills?
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Oh, just noticed from my router logs that my formicaio nodes are actually using upnp. There is also a port forward rule, but it does not seem to cause problems (same ip for the manuall forwarded and upnp ports)
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I would expect it to fluctuate all the time, thatâs the view/estimation each node has based on their own connections, so I would imagine churn would affect those numbers.
You can remove at any time some nodes to free up the storage space used by them.
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Iâm noticing on the 0.5.0 version that the terminal is inoperative â that is, the Enter key does not work so I cannot issue a command
which is a pain as I want to start nodes with at least a 30 sec delay. Using the GUI I cannot find a way to set the delay interval - it always defaults to zero.
I must admit to running Formicaio hard on this VPS and every few days it will run away with load factors of 400 or more. Then I need to gradually restart the nodes. Yes I know I could run fewer nodes but where is the fun in that?
Iâm not reproducing that on my Firefox with v0.5.0, try refreshing with Ctrl + F5, or try with a different browser.
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Its repeatable across a couple of VPSes on Brave but works fine on FF
No sweat on this, happy to run FF for Formicaio only 
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Iâll be taking a look trying to reproduce it.
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Iâm not able to reproduce this on Brave v136.1.78.97 or v136.1.78.102.
Formicaio v0.5.1
Formicaio version 0.5.1 has been released and itâs ready for installation across all supported platforms in native mode.
This new minor release is only intended to support the introduction of an UmbrelOS widget for Formicaio, therefore I would recommend upgrading to this new version only if you are running Formicaio on UmbrelOS and are interested in activating the widget, otherwise there is no good reason to upgrade right now.
In order to install the Formicaio widget on UmbrelOS please follow these steps:
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Upgrade Formicaio to v0.5.1 on UmbrelOS
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From the UmbrelOS home screen right-click and select âedit widgetsâ from the pop-up menu, or click on the âedit widgetsâ button on the menu at the bottom of the screen
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Search for the Formicaio widget from the list of widgets, and click it once to activate it
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Close the âedit widgetsâ panel, and you should see the Formicaio widget already on your UmbrelOS home screen displaying the stats and automatically refreshing every 5 secs.
If this is your first time installing Formicaio, you can easily follow the installation instructions in the README.
Make sure that, after upgrading, you refresh the page of any instance of the Formicaio frontend/GUI you have open on a browser with Ctrl + F5.
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People,
Time for my irregular catch-up (I do scan forum subjects regularly but havenât had time for much else recently):
I have been running a dozen or two nodes of formicaio-v0.4.9 since Apr 19, but nodes die by themselves or when I try to upgrade them. When operational nodes have reduced too much, I have started some more manually but now that seems to be a problem too
I saw some recent posts about problems so I presume my problems are related - I think it is time to re-install from scratch and start a new batch of nodes.
However:
I was hoping by now that nodes that I am running would be accumulating tokens or whatever to pay for upload tests - but that doesnât look possible? After running some dozens of nodes over some months, I only ever saw âStored records xxâ â0 are relevantâ. Does that mean I have to run thousands of nodes before I generate tokens to pay for uploads?
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You need to upgrade to Formicaio version 0.5.x (latest is v0.5.2) which introduced changes required to make it compatible with latest antnode v0.4.0 released on May 9.
Note you cannot run previous/older versions of antnode with Formicaio v0.5.x, therefore make sure to upgrade any existing nodes instances to antnode v0.4.0, or simply create them all from scratch.
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Done - 24 started OK - but what about my question:
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It may be, or just run a few nodes for a longer period of time, youâll have to check how much you earn in a few days with your nodes compared to the cost of uploading files.
Depends how much you want to upload but I run about 40 and it easily pays for the ANT I need for uploading several websites, and getting ScratchChat started.
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I believe that most of the attos earned just now are emissions rather than earned rewards for storage. Therefore, running the nodes at this time will earn attos that will appear with little if any change in stored files, relevant files, etc. I think I read that in one communication or another, and thatâs how it seems from my experience.
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@bochaco , @fergish , @happybeing ,
I have run dozens of nodes for months and never received ANY attos . .
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