This curbs runaway growth while still allowing substantial
spikes in block weight
Original specification from ArticMine:
here is the scaling proposal
Define: LongTermBlockWeight
Before fork:
LongTermBlockWeight = BlockWeight
At or after fork:
LongTermBlockWeight = min(BlockWeight, 1.4*LongTermEffectiveMedianBlockWeight)
Note: To avoid possible consensus issues over rounding the LongTermBlockWeight for a given block should be calculated to the nearest byte, and stored as a integer in the block itself. The stored LongTermBlockWeight is then used for future calculations of the LongTermEffectiveMedianBlockWeight and not recalculated each time.
Define: LongTermEffectiveMedianBlockWeight
LongTermEffectiveMedianBlockWeight = max(300000, MedianOverPrevious100000Blocks(LongTermBlockWeight))
Change Definition of EffectiveMedianBlockWeight
From (current definition)
EffectiveMedianBlockWeight = max(300000, MedianOverPrevious100Blocks(BlockWeight))
To (proposed definition)
EffectiveMedianBlockWeight = min(max(300000, MedianOverPrevious100Blocks(BlockWeight)), 50*LongTermEffectiveMedianBlockWeight)
Notes:
1) There are no other changes to the existing penalty formula, median calculation, fees etc.
2) There is the requirement to store the LongTermBlockWeight of a block unencrypted in the block itself. This is to avoid possible consensus issues over rounding and also to prevent the calculations from becoming unwieldy as we move away from the fork.
3) When the EffectiveMedianBlockWeight cap is reached it is still possible to mine blocks up to 2x the EffectiveMedianBlockWeight by paying the corresponding penalty.
Note: the long term block weight is stored in the database, but not in the actual block itself,
since it requires recalculating anyway for verification.
The blockchain prunes seven eighths of prunable tx data.
This saves about two thirds of the blockchain size, while
keeping the node useful as a sync source for an eighth
of the blockchain.
No other data is currently pruned.
There are three ways to prune a blockchain:
- run monerod with --prune-blockchain
- run "prune_blockchain" in the monerod console
- run the monero-blockchain-prune utility
The first two will prune in place. Due to how LMDB works, this
will not reduce the blockchain size on disk. Instead, it will
mark parts of the file as free, so that future data will use
that free space, causing the file to not grow until free space
grows scarce.
The third way will create a second database, a pruned copy of
the original one. Since this is a new file, this one will be
smaller than the original one.
Once the database is pruned, it will stay pruned as it syncs.
That is, there is no need to use --prune-blockchain again, etc.
get_output_key method is commonly used when working with txs and their key images. Because the method is not const, passing blockchain object though const& or pointers to const is not possible in this context. This is especially problematic in external projects (e.g., projects in moneroexamples) that use monero C++ api to operate on the blockchain and txs.
Thus, having get_output_key method will simplify moving blockchain object around through const references and pointers to const objects.
6644b9b blockchain_db: remove a couple unused functions (moneromooo-monero)
ce594f5 blockchain_db: allocate known size vector only once (moneromooo-monero)
8332698 db_lmdb: inline check_open, it's trivial and called everywhere (moneromooo-monero)
5511563 db_lmdb: avoid pointless division (moneromooo-monero)
d1efe3d cryptonote: set tx hash on newly parsed txes when known (moneromooo-monero)
9cc68a2 tx_pool: add a few std::move where it can make a difference (moneromooo-monero)
a48f2dab blockchain_prune_known_spent_data: blackball file is now optional (moneromooo-monero)
17b45725 Outputs where all amounts are known spent can now be pruned (moneromooo-monero)
Only for pre rct for obvious reasons.
Note: DO NOT use a known spent list which includes outputs
which are not known spent. If the list includes any output
that's just strongly thought to be spent, but not provably
so, you risk finding yourself unable to sync past the point
where that output is spent.
I estimate only 200 MB saved on current mainnet though,
unless the new blackballing rule unearths a good amount of
large-amount-set extra spent outs.
5808530f blockchain: remove unused output_scan_worker parameter (moneromooo-monero)
1426209a blockchain: don't run threads if we have just one function to run (moneromooo-monero)
6f7a5fd4 db_lmdb: slight speedup getting array data from the blockchain (moneromooo-monero)
99fbe100 db_lmdb: save some string copies for readonly db keys/values (moneromooo-monero)
bf31447e tx_pool: speed up take_tx for transactions from blocks (moneromooo-monero)
4f005a77 tx_pool: remove unnecessary get_transaction_hash (moneromooo-monero)
593ef598 perf_timer: call reserve on new timer array (moneromooo-monero)
6ecc99ad core: avoid unnecessary tx/blob conversions (moneromooo-monero)
00cc1a16 unit_tests: notify test special case for the usual weirdo (moneromooo-monero)
bcf3f6af fuzz_tests: catch unhandled exceptions (moneromooo-monero)
3ebd05d4 miner: restore stream flags after changing them (moneromooo-monero)
a093092e levin_protocol_handler_async: do not propagate exception through dtor (moneromooo-monero)
1eebb82b net_helper: do not propagate exceptions through dtor (moneromooo-monero)
fb6a3630 miner: do not propagate exceptions through dtor (moneromooo-monero)
2e2139ff epee: do not propagate exception through dtor (moneromooo-monero)
0749a8bd db_lmdb: do not propagate exceptions in dtor (moneromooo-monero)
1b0afeeb wallet_rpc_server: exit cleanly on unhandled exceptions (moneromooo-monero)
418a9936 unit_tests: catch unhandled exceptions (moneromooo-monero)
ea7f9543 threadpool: do not propagate exceptions through the dtor (moneromooo-monero)
6e855422 gen_multisig: nice exit on unhandled exception (moneromooo-monero)
53df2deb db_lmdb: catch error in mdb_stat calls during migration (moneromooo-monero)
e67016dd blockchain_blackball: catch failure to commit db transaction (moneromooo-monero)
661439f4 mlog: don't remove old logs if we failed to rename the current file (moneromooo-monero)
5fdcda50 easylogging++: test for NULL before dereference (moneromooo-monero)
7ece1550 performance_test: fix bad last argument calling add_arg (moneromooo-monero)
a085da32 unit_tests: add check for page size > 0 before dividing (moneromooo-monero)
d8b1ec8b unit_tests: use std::shared_ptr to shut coverity up about leaks (moneromooo-monero)
02563bf4 simplewallet: top level exception catcher to print nicer messages (moneromooo-monero)
c57a65b2 blockchain_blackball: fix shift range for 32 bit archs (moneromooo-monero)
29dea03 epee: resize vectors where possible in serialization (moneromooo-monero)
76affd9 epee: some speedup in parsing (moneromooo-monero)
dc6c069 db_lmdb: speedup the get_output_distribution common case (moneromooo-monero)
76ac5a8 wallet2: ask for a binary output distribution, for speed (moneromooo-monero)
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