Due to growing coinsviewcaches, the memory usage with checklevel=3
(and standard settings for dbcache) could be up to 500MiB on a
64-bit system. This is about twice the peak during reindexing,
unnecessarily extending bitcoind's memory envelope.
This commit reduces the maximum total size of the caches used during
verification to just nCoinCacheSize, which should be the limit.
Remove the 'state' and 'exceptmask' from serialize.h's stream implementations,
as well as related methods.
As exceptmask always included 'failbit', and setstate was always called with
bits = failbit, all it did was immediately raise an exception. Get rid of
those variables, and replace the setstate with direct exception throwing
(which also removes some dead code).
As a result, good() is never reached after a failure (there are only 2
calls, one of which is in tests), and can just be replaced by !eof().
fail(), clear(n) and exceptions() are just never called. Delete them.
The only other method of logging remote addresses is via
-logips=1 -debug=net
which increases the logged activity by 100x or more.
Github-Pull: #4608
Amended-By: Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>
Port over https://github.com/chronokings/huntercoin/pull/19 from
Huntercoin: This implements a new RPC command "getchaintips" that can be
used to find all currently active chain heads. This is similar to the
-printblocktree startup option, but it can be used without restarting
just via the RPC interface on a running daemon.
* Replace -benchmark (and the related fBenchmark) with a regular debug option, -debug=bench.
* Increase coverage and granularity of individual block processing steps.
* Add cummulative times.
First and foremost, this defaults to OFF.
This option lets a node consider such transactions non-standard,
meaning they will not be relayed or mined by default, but other miners
are free to mine these as usual.
4eedf4f make RandAddSeed() use OPENSSL_cleanse() (Philip Kaufmann)
6354935 move rand functions from util to new random.h/.cpp (Philip Kaufmann)
001a53d add GetRandBytes() as wrapper for RAND_bytes() (Philip Kaufmann)
This adds a -whitelist option to specify subnet ranges from which peers
that connect are whitelisted. In addition, there is a -whitebind option
which works like -bind, except peers connecting to it are also
whitelisted (allowing a separate listen port for trusted connections).
Being whitelisted has two effects (for now):
* They are immune to DoS disconnection/banning.
* Transactions they broadcast (which are valid) are always relayed,
even if they were already in the mempool. This means that a node
can function as a gateway for a local network, and that rebroadcasts
from the local network will work as expected.
Whitelisting replaces the magic exemption localhost had for DoS
disconnection (local addresses are still never banned, though), which
implied hidden service connects (from a localhost Tor node) were
incorrectly immune to DoS disconnection as well. This old
behaviour is removed for that reason, but can be restored using
-whitelist=127.0.0.1 or -whitelist=::1 can be specified. -whitebind
is safer to use in case non-trusted localhost connections are expected
(like hidden services).
- add a small wrapper in util around RAND_bytes() and replace with
GetRandBytes() in the code to log errors from calling RAND_bytes()
- remove OpenSSL header rand.h where no longer needed
75f51f2a introduced asynchronous processing for blocks, where reject messages
and DoS scoring could be applied outside of ProcessBlock, because block
validation may happen later.
However, some types of errors are still detected immediately (in particular,
CheckBlock violations), which need acting after ProcessBlock returns.
The wallet now uses the mempool fee estimator with a new
command-line option: -txconfirmtarget (default: 1) instead
of using hard-coded fees or priorities.
A new bitcoind that hasn't seen enough transactions to estimate
will fall back to the old hard-coded minimum priority or
transaction fee.
-paytxfee option overrides -txconfirmtarget.
Relaying and mining code isn't changed.
For Qt, the coin control dialog now uses priority estimates to
label transaction priority (instead of hard-coded constants);
unspent outputs were consistently labeled with a much higher
priority than is justified by the free transactions actually
being accepted into blocks.
I did not implement any GUI for setting -txconfirmtarget; I would
suggest getting rid of the "Pay transaction fee" GUI and replace
it with either "target number of confirmations" or maybe
a "faster confirmation <--> lower fee" slider or select box.
Wladimir J. van der Laan
Pieter Wuille
Cozz Lovan
Peter Todd
Mike Hearn
Jeff Garzik
Daniel Kraft
kazcw
Luke Dashjr
Philip Kaufmann
jtimon
R E Broadley
Gavin Andresen