## 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
* 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.
* 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.
* 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>
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.
Co-authored-by: teor <teor@riseup.net>
* move include out of unix cfg
Co-authored-by: teor <teor@riseup.net>
* 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
Co-authored-by: teor <teor@riseup.net>
Co-authored-by: teor <teor@riseup.net>
* 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 valid generated config test
* change to pathbuf
* use -c to make sure we are using the generated file
* add and use a ZebraTestDir type
* change approach to generate tempdir in top of each test
* pass tempdir to test_cmd and set current dir to it
* add and use a `generated_config_path` variable in tests
* make sure no info is printed in non server tests
* check exact full output for validity instead of log msgs
* add end of output character to version regex
* use coercions, use equality operator
Co-authored-by: Jane Lusby <jlusby42@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Jane Lusby <jlusby42@gmail.com>
* Split tracing component code into modules.
* Repatriate Tracing and simplify config handling.
We upstreamed our Tracing component, expecting not to have to exert fine
control over the tracing settings. But this turned out not to be the case, and
now that we want to do other things (flamegraphs, journalctl, opentelemetry,
etc), we end up with really awkward code (as in the current flamegraph
handling).
This also makes use of the changes to `init()` to load the config early to pass
configuration data into the components, which avoids the need for the
refactoring in #775.
Finally, we restore support for the `-v` flag when the filter is unset. Closes#831.
* Disable tracing and metrics endpoints by default.
Closes#660.
* Switch back to upstream Abscissa.
* Integrate flamegraph support into the new Tracing component.
* Pass -v in acceptance tests to get info-level output.
* Clean up acceptance test code.
* add zebrad acceptance tests
* add custom command test helpers that work with kill
* add and use info event for start and seed commands
* combine conflicting tests into one test case
Co-authored-by: Jane Lusby <jane@zfnd.org>
* Add a TracingConfig and some components
Co-authored-by: Deirdre Connolly <deirdre@zfnd.org>
* Restructure, use dependency injection, initialize tracing
* Start a placeholder loop in start command
* Add hyper alpha.1, bump tokio to alpha.4
* Hello world endpoint using async/await from hyper 0.13 alpha
Also cleaned up some linter messages.
Co-authored-by: Henry de Valence <hdevalence@hdevalence.ca>
* Update to tracing_subscriber 0.1
* fmt
* add rust-toolchain
* Remove hyper::Version import
* wip: start filter_handler impl
* Add .rustfmt.toml
* rustfmt
* Tidy up .rustfmt.toml
* Add filter reloading handling.
* bump toolchain
* Remove generated hello world acceptance tests.
These test the behaviour of the autogenerated binary and work as examples of
how to test the behaviour of abscissa binaries. Since we don't print "Hello
World" any more, they fail, but we don't yet have replacement behaviour to add
tests for, so they're removed for now.
* Clean up config file handling with Option::and_then.
Jane Lusby
teor
Alfredo Garcia
Henry de Valence
Ramana Venkata
Deirdre Connolly
Jane Lusby
Tony Arcieri