I think monero is interesting and want to support it a little. To do so i setup a public full node on my home-server (3900x with NVMe SSD) and configured it so that it is allowed to use up to 50% of my bandwidth (i have 500 MBit/s down and 40 MBit/s up)

I'm now not that sure how to configure in-peers and out-peers in a way that strengthens the network. My assumption would be that a high number of out-peers is bad because my server would be blocking in-connections of other nodes, and a high number if in-peers is good because i allow more people to download the chain.

Are these assumptions correct?
What would be some good values for in-peers and out-peers?
I currently configured 128 out-peers and 1024 in-peers. Is one of these exessive or not enough?

Update: I decided to go with 64 out-peers and 256 in-peers for now. See this comment for an explanation

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, actually trying and seeing is the best way, if you’d really like to fine-tune anything. I don’t have much technical knowledge but empirically, any value may be about as good as another, if not too extreme. The end results might be about the same no matter which you use: 64, 80, 96, 128, etc. and just using the default settings may be good enough.

P2Pool may be somewhat special, as it’s not just about running a full-node but you have to run like 3 tools (each possibly resource-hungry) at the same time.