This change encodes a bunch of invariants in the type system,
and adds explicit failure states for:
* a closed oneshot,
* bugs in the initialization code.
Use `ServiceExt::oneshot` to perform state requests.
Explain that `ServiceExt::call_all` calls `poll_ready` internally.
Document a state service invariant imposed by `ServiceExt::call_all`.
* add hint for port error
* add issue filter for port panic
* add lock file hint
* add metrics endpoint port conflict hint
* add hint for tracing endpoint port conflict
* add acceptance test for resource conflics
* Split out common conflict test code into a function
* Add state, metrics, and tracing conflict tests
* Add a full set of stderr acceptance test functions
This change makes the stdout and stderr acceptance test interfaces
identical.
* move Zcash listener opening
* add todo about hint for disk full
* add constant for lock file
* match path in state cache
* don't match windows cache path
* Use Display for state path logs
Avoids weird escaping on Windows when using Debug
* Add Windows conflict error messages
* Turn PORT_IN_USE_ERROR into a regex
And add another alternative Windows-specific port error
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Co-authored-by: Jane Lusby <jane@zfnd.org>
* Bump versions where appropriate
Tested with cargo install --locked --path etc
* Remove fixed panics from 'Known Issues'
* Change to alpha release series in the README
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The clippy unknown lints attribute was deprecated in
nightly in rust-lang/rust#80524. The old lint name now produces a
warning.
Since we're using `allow(unknown_lints)` to suppress warnings, we need to
add the canonical name, so we can continue to build without warnings on
nightly.
But we also need to keep the old name, so we can continue to build
without warnings on stable.
And therefore, we also need to disable the "removed lints" warning,
otherwise we'll get warnings about the old name on nightly.
We'll need to keep this transitional clippy config until rustc 1.51 is
stable.
* Stop failing acceptance tests if their directories already exist
* Add an immutable config writing helper
and use it in the cached sapling acceptance tests.
Also:
* consistently create missing config and state directories
* refactor the common config writing code into a separate function
* only ignore NotFound errors in replace_config
* enforce config immutability using the type system
This timeout stops the sync service hanging when it is missing required
blocks, but the lookahead queue is full of dependent verify tasks, so the
missing blocks never get downloaded.
Check misconfigured ephemeral doesn't create a state dir
Add extra misconfigured `zebrad` ephemeral mode checks:
* doesn't create a state directory
* doesn't create unexpected files or directories in the working directory
Check ephemeral doesn't delete an existing state directory
Refactor all the ephemeral configs and checks into a single test
function.
Also:
* cleanup acceptance tests using utility functions
* make some checks consistent between tests
* make error messages consistent
Co-authored-by: Jane Lusby <jlusby42@gmail.com>
* Add the configured network to error reports
* Log the configured network at error level
* Create the global span immediately after activating tracing
And leak the span guard, so the span is always active.
* Include panic metadata in the report and URL
* Use `Main` and `Test` in the global span
`net=Mainnet` is a bit redundant
When `cargo run` is run in the workspace directory, it can see two
executables:
- `zebrad`
- `zebra_checkpoints`
Adding `default-run = "zebrad"` to `zebrad/Cargo.toml` makes the
workspace run `zebrad` by default. (Even though it's redundant for the
`zebrad` crate itself.)
* Rewrite GetData handling to match the zcashd implementation
`zcashd` silently ignores missing blocks, but sends found transactions
followed by a `NotFound` message:
e7b425298f/src/main.cpp (L5497)
This is significantly different to the behaviour expected by the old
Zebra connection state machine, which expected `NotFound` for blocks.
Also change Zebra's GetData responses to peer request so they ignore
missing blocks.
* Stop hanging on incomplete transaction or block responses
Instead, if the peer sends an unexpected block, unexpected transaction,
or NotFound message:
1. end the request, and return a partial response containing any items
that were successfully received
2. if none of the expected blocks or transactions were received, return
an error, and close the connection
In our README, we tell users to ignore these errors, so we should also
disable the issue URL.
Also include the hash in the error. (We don't want the span active for
all messages, we just want the hash in the error.)
This change avoids errors when tests are cancelled and re-run within a
short period of time, for example, using `cargo watch`.
It introduces a slight risk of port conflicts between the endpoint tests,
and with (ephemeral) ports used by other services. The risk of conflicts
across 2 tests is very low, and tests should be run in an isolated
environment on busy servers.
vergen's implementation of REBUILD_ON_HEAD_CHANGE assumes that the .git
directory is in the crate root, but Zebra uses a workspace.
Temporary fix for rustyhorde/vergen#21.
Because the new version of the prometheus exporter launches its own
single-threaded runtime on a dedicated worker thread, there's no need
for the tokio and hyper versions it uses internally to align with the
versions used in other crates. So we don't need to use our fork with
tokio 0.3, and can just use the published alpha. Advancing to a later
alpha may fix the missing-metrics issues.
As we approach our alpha release we've decided we want to plan ahead for the user bug reports we will eventually receive. One of the bigger issues we foresee is determining exactly what version of the software users are running, and particularly how easy it may or may not be for users to accidentally discard this information when reporting bugs.
To defend against this, we've decided to include the exact git sha for any given build in the compiled artifact. This information will then be re-exported as a span early in the application startup process, so that all logs and error messages should include the sha as their very first span. We've also added this sha as issue metadata for `color-eyre`'s github issue url auto generation feature, which should make sure that the sha is easily available in bug reports we receive, even in the absence of logs.
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* implement inbound `FindBlocks`
* Handle inbound peer FindHeaders requests
* handle request before having any chain tip
* Split `find_chain_hashes` into smaller functions
Add a `max_len` argument to support `FindHeaders` requests.
Rewrite the hash collection code to use heights, so we can handle the
`stop` hash and "no intersection" cases correctly.
* Split state height functions into "any chain" and "best chain"
* Rename the best chain block method to `best_block`
* Move fmt utilities to zebra_chain::fmt
* Summarise Debug for some Message variants
Co-authored-by: teor <teor@riseup.net>
Co-authored-by: Jane Lusby <jlusby42@gmail.com>
This provides useful and not too noisy output at INFO level. We do an
info-level message on every block commit instead of trying to do one
message every N blocks, because this is useful both for initial block
sync as well as continuous state updates on new blocks.
The metrics code becomes much simpler because the current version of the
metrics crate builds its own single-threaded runtime on a dedicated worker
thread, so no dependency on the main Zebra Tokio runtime is required.
This change is mostly mechanical, with the exception of the changes to the
`tower-batch` middleware. This middleware was adapted from `tower::buffer`,
and the `tower::buffer` code was changed to implement its own bounded queue,
because Tokio 0.3 removed the `mpsc::Sender::poll_send` method. See
ddc64e8d4d
for more context on the Tower changes. To match Tower as closely as possible
in order to be able to upstream `tower-batch`, those changes are copied from
`tower::Buffer` to `tower-batch`.
## Motivation
Prior to this PR we've been using `sled` as our database for storing persistent chain data on the disk between boots. We picked sled over rocksdb to minimize our c++ dependencies despite it being a less mature codebase. The theory was if it worked well enough we'd prefer to have a pure rust codebase, but if we ever ran into problems we knew we could easily swap it out with rocksdb.
Well, we ran into problems. Sled's memory usage was particularly high, and it seemed to be leaking memory. On top of all that, the performance for writes was pretty poor, causing us to become bottle-necked on sled instead of the network.
## Solution
This PR replaces `sled` with `rocksdb`. We've seen a 10x improvement in memory usage out of the box, no more leaking, and much better write performance. With this change writing chain data to disk is no longer a limiting factor in how quickly we can sync the chain.
The code in this pull request has:
- [x] Documentation Comments
- [x] Unit Tests and Property Tests
## Review
@hdevalence
This helps prevent overloading the network with too many concurrent
block requests. On a fast network, we're likely to still have enough
room to saturate our bandwidth. In the worst case, with 2MB blocks,
downloading 50 blocks concurrently is 100MB of queued downloads. If we
need to download this in 20 seconds to avoid peer connection timeouts,
the implied worst-case minimum speed is 5MB/s. In practice, this
minimum speed will likely be much lower.
This reverts commit 656bd24ba7.
The Hedge middleware keeps a pair of histograms, writing into one in the
current time interval and reading from the previous time interval's
data. This means that the reverted change resulted in doubling all
block downloads until after at least the second measurement interval
(which means that the time measurements are also incorrect, as they're
operating under double the network load...)
* Use the default memory limit in the acceptance tests
PR #1233 changed the default `memory_cache_bytes`, but left the
acceptance tests with their old value.
Sets the default value to the previous lookahead limit. My testing on
mainnet suggested that the newly lower value (changed when the
checkpoint frequency was decreased) is low enough to cause stalls, even
when using hedged requests.
Remove the minimum data points from the syncer hedge configuragtion.
When there are no data points, hedge sends the second request
immediately.
Where there are less than 1/(1-latency_percentile) data points (20),
hedge delays the second request by the highest recent download time.
This change should improve genesis and post-restart sync latency.
* Run large checkpoint sync tests in CI
* Improve test child output match error context
* Add a debug_stop_at_height config
* Use stop at height in acceptance tests
And add some restart acceptance tests, to make sure the stop at
height feature works correctly.
We should error if we notice that we're attempting to download the same
blocks multiple times, because that indicates that peers reported bad
information to us, or we got confused trying to interpret their
responses.
The original sync algorithm split the sync process into two phases, one
that obtained prospective chain tips, and another that attempted to
extend those chain tips as far as possible until encountering an error
(at which point the prospective state is discarded and the process
restarts).
Because a previous implementation of this algorithm didn't properly
enforce linkage between segments of the chain while extending tips,
sometimes it would get confused and fail to discard responses that did
not extend a tip. To mitigate this, a check against the state was
added. However, this check can cause stalls while checkpointing,
because when a checkpoint is reached we may suddenly need to commit
thousands of blocks to the state. Because the sync algorithm now has a
a `CheckedTip` structure that ensures that a new segment of hashes
actually extends an existing one, we don't need to check against the
state while extending a tip, because we don't get confused while
interpreting responses.
This change results in significantly smoother progress on mainnet.
There's no reason to return a pre-Buffer'd service (there's no need for
internal access to the state service, as in zebra-network), but wrapping
it internally removes control of the buffer size from the caller.
The timeout behavior in zebra-network is an implementation detail, not a
feature of the public API. So it shouldn't be mentioned in the doc
comments -- if we want timeout behavior, we have to layer it ourselves.
Using the cancel_handles, we can deduplicate requests. This is
important to do, because otherwise when we insert the second cancel
handle, we'd drop the first one, cancelling an existing task for no
reason.
The hedge middleware implements hedged requests, as described in _The
Tail At Scale_. The idea is that we auto-tune our retry logic according
to the actual network conditions, pre-emptively retrying requests that
exceed some latency percentile. This would hopefully solve the problem
where our timeouts are too long on mainnet and too slow on testnet.
Try to use the better cancellation logic to revert to previous sync
algorithm. As designed, the sync algorithm is supposed to proceed by
downloading state prospectively and handle errors by flushing the
pipeline and starting over. This hasn't worked well, because we didn't
previously cancel tasks properly. Now that we can, try to use something
in the spirit of the original sync algorithm.
This makes two changes relative to the existing download code:
1. It uses a oneshot to attempt to cancel the download task after it
has started;
2. It encapsulates the download creation and cancellation logic into a
Downloads struct.
* Reverse displayed endianness of transaction and block hashes
* fix zebra-checkpoints utility for new hash order
* Stop using "zebrad revhex" in zebrad-hash-lookup
* Rebuild checkpoint lists in new hash order
This change also adds additional checkpoints to the end of each list.
* Replace TransactionHash with transaction::Hash
This change should have been made in #905, but we missed Debug impls
and some docs.
Co-authored-by: Ramana Venkata <vramana@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: teor <teor@riseup.net>
This reduces the API surface to the minimum required for functionality,
and cleans up module documentation. The stub mempool module is deleted
entirely, since it will need to be redone later anyways.
* implement most of the chain functions
* implement fork
* fix outpoint handling in Chain struct
* update expect for work
* split utxo into two sets
* update the Chain definition
* remove allow attribute in zebra-state/lib.rs
* merge ChainSet type into MemoryState
* Add error messages to asserts
* export proptest impls for use in downstream crates
* add testjob for disabled feature in zebra-chain
* try to fix github actions syntax
* add module doc comment
* update RFC for utxos
* add missing header
* working proptest for Chain
* propagate back results over channel
* Start updating RFC to match changes
* implement queued block pruning
* and now it syncs wooo!
* remove empty modules
* setup config for proptests
* re-enable missing_docs lint
* update RFC to match changes in impl
* add documentation
* use more explicit variable names
The Inbound service only needs the network setup for some requests, but
it can service other requests without it. Making it return
Poll::Pending until the network setup finishes means that initial
network connections may view the Inbound service as overloaded and
attempt to load-shed.
The original version of this commit ran into
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/64552
again. Thanks to @yaahc for suggesting a workaround (using futures combinators
to avoid writing an async block).
Remove the seed command entirely, and make the behavior it provided
(responding to `Request::Peers`) part of the ordinary functioning of the
start command.
The new `Inbound` service should be expanded to handle all request
types.
* add test for first checkpoint sync
Prior this this change we've not had any tests that verify our sync /
network logic is well behaved. This PR cleans up the test helper code to
make error reports more consistent and uses this cleaned up API to
implement a checkpoint sync test which runs zebrad until it reads the
first checkpoint event from stdout.
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* move include out of unix cfg
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* increase the EWMA default and decay
* increase the block download retries
* increase the request and block download timeouts
* increase the sync timeout
* add metrics and tracking endpoint tests
* test endpoints more
* add change filter test for tracing
* add await to post
* separate metrics and tracing tests
* Apply suggestions from code review
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* Ignore sync errors when the block is already verified
If we get an error for a block that is already in our state, we don't
need to restart the sync. It was probably a duplicate download.
Also:
Process any ready tasks before reset, so the logs and metrics are
up to date. (But ignore the errors, because we're about to reset.)
Improve sync logging and metrics during the download and verify task.
* Remove duplicate hashes in logs
Co-authored-by: Jane Lusby <jlusby42@gmail.com>
* Log the sync hash span at warn level
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* Remove in-memory state service
* make the config compatible with toml again
* checkpoint commit to see how much I still have to revert
* back to the starting point...
* remove unused dependency
* reorganize error handling a bit
* need to make a new color-eyre release now
* reorder again because I have problems
* remove unnecessary helpers
* revert changes to config loading
* add back missing space
* Switch to released color-eyre version
* add back missing newline again...
* improve error message on unix when terminated by signal
* add context to last few asserts in acceptance tests
* instrument some of the helpers
* remove accidental extra space
* try to make this compile on windows
* reorg platform specific code
* hide on_disk module and fix broken link
* add CheckpointList::new_up_to(limit: NetworkUpgrade)
* if checkpoint_sync is false, limit checkpoints to Sapling
* update tests for CheckpointList and chain::init
This is the first in a sequence of changes that change the block:: items
to not include Block as a prefix in their name, in accordance with the
Rust API guidelines.
Jane Lusby
teor
Alfredo Garcia
Deirdre Connolly
dependabot[bot]
Jane Lusby
Henry de Valence
Ramana Venkata