Request for Test 16 Logs in the following cases

[anon86652309]

We’re looking at a data loss issue right now which would explain the login failures, and there seems to have been a handful of vaults which had connection problems. These caused high levels of churn in a section of the network, and data wasn’t able to be relocated during this phase.

It would be really helpful if anyone has any of the logs for nodes e3d8ea, e3a00a, e3207d or e29327 to see a copy of them. The logfile(s) will be in the same folder as the safe_vault executable and will be called “Node-<timestamp>.log” where <timestamp> is a ten-digit number.

[veli_e_veliev]

How come the issue did not occur during test 15?
I thought the invitations were about the only difference between the two tests.

[davidpbrown]

@veli_e_veliev

How come the issue did not occur during test 15?

A small network will naturally be liable to alsorts of edge cases. If someone starts and then stops a few, that’s a large fraction of disturbance that might not help if others are turning over data and requests. One node can only do so much; many nodes reduces all kinds of stresses. It’s a wonder it’s stable with what I guess is only a couple of hundred nodes.

[Tom_Carlson]

They made other changes, which may not have been tested sufficiently in the time they had available.

@maidsafe

It is our pleasure to be releasing Test 16. Here are the main changes compared to Test 15:

Implement invitation-based account creation.
Add section update requests to make merges more stable.
Don’t approve new node if routing table is invalid.
Work around cases where OtherSectionMerge would not accumulate.
Several fixes to tunnel nodes and peer manager.
Replace rustc-serialize with serde.

[Tom_Carlson]

@davidpbrown

A small network will naturally be liable to alsorts of edge cases. If someone starts and then stops a few, that’s a large fraction of disturbance that might not help if others are turning over data and requests.

Maidsafe does churn tests, specifically to catch these issues. Churn is something that’s expected and designed for. I think it’s more likely to do with some change they made between 15 and 16.