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| author | Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org> | 2013-03-12 05:57:49 -0400 |
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| committer | bitcoindev <bitcoindev@gnusha.org> | 2013-03-12 09:58:36 +0000 |
| commit | f6f3a3355907adaa21d967872fafdb4d9de5d3e7 (patch) | |
| tree | e22723688aa74b860949f80068d7f8747ef00cf0 /07 | |
| parent | 55e28a46ae56085d4d824451db5e6f825d714534 (diff) | |
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Re: [Bitcoin-development] Warning: many 0.7 nodes break on large number of tx/block; fork risk
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If too many transactions +> enter the pool then nodes will start to die with OOM failures. +> Therefore it is possible that we have a very limited amount of time +> until nodes start dying en-masse. + +Note that nodes dying en-mass due to OOM failures is a relatively benign +failure mode as the point as which any particular node would die is +uncorrelated with other nodes - it won't cause a network fork. + +Implementing a simple and stupid "while [ true ] do ; ./bitcoind ; done" +loop combined with ulimit to keep total memory usage to something sane +is a perfectly acceptable hack until proper mempool code with expiration +can be written. Gavin can talk more about his ideas in that regard. + +--=20 +'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org + +--WYTEVAkct0FjGQmd +Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" +Content-Description: Digital signature + +-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- +Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) + +iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJRPvwcAAoJEH+rEUJn5PoERRIH/27JZTjCYfqyUjYlCpk9WCiw +sDzpjtqhQtQsgP183NTJqjLayqTSUUgtRuLD+iJ1lMc4NMkMcw4h00vHrVk2PIIa +v2VN2uvw47ywGkwyllWK7LUWyKn/J89mp0LHstTujrmn6xaE9Jl8lLL3VAy6160u +XtmIWVl4TULS/MhH5lRtgOeDJkJmhW5fYJpVrBvMBS0LyCKVAiq6G59E1Q6YXN+p +r5jhp8aCARPX0ra9uiPvC9XbAkWMC6paAKafBKYpr7oRza8AxSCgQZiUOAl3mG8D +qG2lcU4qwgdF4ofVrqtgX2Y5DZLlfonDZaOt9UI8aADagqSzhTZ8hgeXfOzC8bs= +=iAWt +-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- + +--WYTEVAkct0FjGQmd-- + + |