Re: [Bitcoin-development] On-going data spam

2013-04-09 Thread steve
potential as a bounce pad/egg drop location but not much - no heap spraying as such, or d/c tors, or heap header structs, etc. Im sure someone is sure to come up with something very clever tho. just not me. cheers, steve Thanks, Caleb On 04/09/2013 06:42 AM, Mike Hearn wrote: OK

Re: [Bitcoin-development] 0.7.1 release candidate 1 ready for testing

2012-10-11 Thread steve
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On 11/10/2012 16:46, Gavin Andresen wrote: Any progress on a release candidate QA sanity testing plan? essentially yes - in all seriousness, I have come around to your way of thinking, it is not worth arguing about. we end up in the same

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Testing Project

2012-10-03 Thread steve
. :) This is a top post and there is nothing inline so i snipped it. cheers, steve On 03/10/2012 06:03, Peter Vessenes wrote: Oops, I accidentally didn't reply-all to Steve. I am ccing my detailed response to steve to the list since I think people are wondering about how the Foundation fits in; trash

[Bitcoin-development] Fwd: Re: Bitcoin Testing Project

2012-10-03 Thread steve
-0700 From: Peter Vessenes pe...@coinlab.com To: steve st...@mistfpga.net On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 6:15 PM, steve st...@mistfpga.net wrote: On 01/10/2012 17:52, Peter Vessenes wrote: I'm a big proponent of a testing project. I am very happy to hear this, however, your actual words

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Testing Project

2012-10-02 Thread steve
to work, but it doesnt. It does show quite a lot of work that I have done though. If you were to say to me, 'steve, by monday we need end to end, requirements based testing' It would be done. (I have already spent over 4 months on this) Leaderless leadership is something I am having a hard time

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Testing Project

2012-10-02 Thread steve
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/10/2012 03:02, Gregory Maxwell wrote: On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:15 PM, steve st...@mistfpga.net wrote: Im ready to go, more or less. Please check out the links in my previous emails. I have over 400 testcases (8 platforms * 50 release tests

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Testing Project

2012-10-01 Thread steve
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 12:26 PM, steve st...@mistfpga.net wrote: Hi Gavin, Sorry for the delayed response, I wanted to take a couple of days to reflect on your email. On 26/09/2012 19:09, Gavin Andresen wrote: And their are other methods too. The GUI::Test package

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Testing Project

2012-09-26 Thread steve
would rather go for interoperability between testing rather than rewriting it all. Cheers, steve Matt On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 19:32 +0100, steve wrote: Hi All, After the failure to get any real testing done for the 0.7 release (all of which is my fault) I have decided to rejig things

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Testing Project

2012-09-26 Thread steve
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26/09/2012 13:49, Wladimir wrote: Steve, Hi Wladimir, So, currently there are 4 potential places for bugs to be reported 1 - jenkins (and unit tests) 2 - git 3 - mailing list 4 - forum

[Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Testing Project

2012-09-25 Thread steve
processes? even if it is just some encouragement, it is all greatly appreciated. Drop me an email if you want access to the current setup and help me review the different software for the bitcoin workflow process. cheers, steve - -- my PGP public key is at pgp.mit.edu id: 0x5016FB50 -BEGIN PGP

Re: [Bitcoin-development] The Bitcoin Testing Project

2012-08-02 Thread steve
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/08/2012 01:07, Gary Rowe wrote: Hi Steve, This looks like a good idea to me. The test suites could act similarly to the 100% Pure Java approach that successfully fended off a lot of corrupting influences to Java over the years. Maybe

[Bitcoin-development] The Bitcoin Testing Project

2012-08-01 Thread steve
. cheers, steve I do not belive this to be related, but I am not ashamed and feel no stigma. I have posted this on a public forum. I suffer from fast cycling (withing a day) type two bipolar disorder. This has been and is being managed very well by my meds (300mg quetiapine fumerate and 30mg

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Scalability issues

2012-07-25 Thread steve
On 25/07/2012 10:45, Michael Grønager wrote: Hi Steve, I see dramatic differences in performance on virtual machines vs running directly on the iron. I am not an expert in virtual machines, They can be, it depends on how they are set up. For reference, these VM's used to test network

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Scalability issues

2012-07-24 Thread steve
to australia tomorrrow, so I will set some breakpoints and do some timings in a debugger. This will all happen on an e-450 (wonderful machine!) Thanks very much for your response. it would seem that I am 'doing it wrong' :/ cheers mate, steve (this message isnt signed because I have forgotten my

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Scalability issues

2012-07-23 Thread steve
, and approx 3gb/s internet connection it took 2 hours to sync the last 5 days. Maybe i am missing something important... Any additional information that you could provide to help me with testing would be really appreciated. cheers, steve -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32

Re: [Bitcoin-development] bitcoind multiplexing proxy - request/response routing problem

2011-09-08 Thread Steve
4a/ Serialize all request/response exchanges. i.e. request comes in from remote node, proxy aquires lock on the proxy-localdaemon channel and sends request. Channel remains locked until response is received or timeout (in which case remote node gets no response). Unlock channel after

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Building a node crawler to map network

2011-09-06 Thread Steve
While I'm asking questions I'll add one more regarding the getaddr message. Talking to myself here. I just sent this message then found this brilliant set of articles in the Dev Tech forum which answers the question very nicely: *https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=41722.0