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Im running a geth (1.3.5) node on a Windows 8 mining rig. Doing that for some month now, i couldnt solve the following problem/behavior:

- After starting the node i get connected to 10-15 peers
- the connection seems stable for like +- one day
- after that day the peer number starts dropping slowly
- 2-3 days after starting the node the peer count is zero
- i restart the node and the same behavior starts from the beginning

i tried
- to have my time syncronised --> should be correct (tried different time servers but samesame)
- disabling my firewall/antivirus... everything --> did not change anything
- to add nodes manually --> admin.addNode

nothing helped..
what else could cause this or what am i not thinking of?

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    latency might be a problem. i had the same problem and i end up disable mining.
    – niksmac
    Commented Mar 22, 2016 at 12:23
  • is there a way to check this and be sure thats the problem?
    – Pepethereum
    Commented Mar 22, 2016 at 15:07
  • latency can be checked if you configured the node to show up in ethstats.net. I am unaware of any other methods.
    – niksmac
    Commented Mar 22, 2016 at 15:11
  • I added the bug tag because I am totally reproducing this problem with my geth miners. Maybe we should report that upstream.
    – q9f
    Commented Mar 23, 2016 at 10:26
  • Please open an issue on our GitHub tracker: github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/issues, but also please check if the develop branch works for you, because the issue may have already been solved upstream, just not shipped yet.
    – Péter Szilágyi
    Commented Mar 23, 2016 at 12:32

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We've seen occasional reports of such behavior, alas given that it needs 2-3 days to crop up we haven't been able to reproduce it ourselves (I personally have both main net and test net nodes running 24/7 for weeks and didn't see sync issues as of yet).

Since we can't reproduce it ourselves, could you help us out in doing a repro? To do such a thing we'd need detailed logs, the accumulation of which would probably be way too unwieldy. We've added an RPC endpoint to 1.4 (develop branch) that can turn on logging for an already running node. If you'd like to help, please run a develop build for a few days and when the issue crops up, attach to the node with a console, enable logging (debug.verbosity(6)), let it run for a few minutes (10?) and upload the logs to a GitHub gist and open an issue on our tracker so we may investigate.

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  • I think I can do that since this randomly happens to my mining rigs.
    – q9f
    Commented Mar 30, 2016 at 8:58
  • im on it too ... having this issue on two different mining rigs
    – Pepethereum
    Commented Apr 7, 2016 at 11:11
  • is it possible to save the logs into a file directly? or do i just copy&paste from the command window(for that i have to adjust the window buffer size but i guess i wont be able to get the whole logs for 10min+)
    – Pepethereum
    Commented Apr 8, 2016 at 7:27

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