Thanks.
So about 1.2khs I’m willing to drop to nano but based on the P2Pool benchmarks, I should be good on Mini.
That being said, today I think I figured out the issue(s)
1. Updated to Gupax v2 as that was released yesterday
2. Updated Monerod, P2Pool, and XmRig to latest versions
3. “Started” Monerod (Node) <<< that was most likely the issue.
At first I was using simple settings on P2Pool which used remote nodes. But when I switched to Advanced for Mini access, It switched to local node which I didn’t realize I had to spin up
About 63% synced on the node. So in the morning it should be ready for me to fire up p2pool and xmrig again. But using local node not remote