The issue I originally raised, and discussed at length here since end of May, has now been solved and discussed in this thread - in my case 5.62TB of uncollected garbage moved to trash, freeing 68% of my storage for paid data opnce more.
My only closing thoughts are that this did take a long time to get this accepted as a real life issue and a resolution put in place, and may be there are some standard diags/results SNOs could do to make it easier for devs to understand live issues in future. Just a thought
@BrightSilence Just wanted to personally thank you for your earnings calculator - its has been the only constant through the last three months that has given an easy and true picture of wasted storage. Thank you
Aww, thanks, I really appreciate that. Itās always been my goal to provide insights for SNOās they canāt get any other way. The calculator actually predates the web dashboard and it was always my hope that it would one day be obsolete. The web dashboard eventually showed most of what I showed, but I kept finding ways to extend functionality beyond whatās there natively. (Vetting progress, payout notes that could block payout, GC progress, more detailed bandwidth breakdowns, different ways to look at stored data etc. etc.)
When these issues popped up, I was happy to be able to provide a better way to look at the mismatch. Iām still bound by what the nodes have available. But thereās more in those dbās than what is shown on the dashboard or even through the node API.
I can confirm that my node Iāve been using to post about this issue is also recovering. Though itās still working on bloom filters, so it will only get better.
I know it took a while, but Iām still really happy at all the work Storj Labs has done over the past months. They were doing a lot all at the same time. Improving every aspect of the network to significantly speed up for new customer use cases, while still finding the time to resolve issues for node operators. Iām sure thereās still more work to be done, because in part the better numbers now are because the pieces on Saltlakeās incentive/testing traffic are now larger, but Iām really happy at the moment to see this issue slowly fade away.
If my calculator could have helped even in a small way with that, Iām even more happy.
Now perhaps I can start looking at expanding again, now that my storage is starting to be efficiently utilized again.
Please keep your great work! We need such tools, and they should come from the Community, you do not need to trust us (Storj) about numbers, so this is a good additional (or maybe even replacement) for the stock dashboard.
Oh, donāt worry. I will keep holding your feet to the fire.
And I agree that independent tools can help with that, but they also have a limited reach. Anything available on the dashboard is available to all SNOs. And Iāve always encouraged Storj to āborrowā my ideas to extend them to that larger audience. And besides, itāll just challenge me to find more new things to make the calculator still useful. Just like I did when the web dashboard first launched.
