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authorAlex Morcos <morcos@chaincode.com>2017-03-31 10:26:25 -0400
committerWladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>2017-04-05 08:23:02 +0200
commit0e5133cb2ef8973951f1b576ead37792f9b37f83 (patch)
tree3a16511c3690b94d03b4c785eeec894c135f6f75
parentd6867689d187b72145bb36f4a204f4468e46ee7e (diff)
downloadbitcoin-0e5133cb2ef8973951f1b576ead37792f9b37f83.tar.xz
Make threshold for flushing more conservative.
Always leave a reasonable buffer of 50MB for usage from newly connected block (once over 50%) and increase the high water mark buffer to 200MB. Github-Pull: #10133 Rebased-From: 1b55e07b7a61a9e6c299cf4c40fde80fa715d440
-rw-r--r--src/txdb.h6
-rw-r--r--src/validation.cpp5
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/txdb.h b/src/txdb.h
index 337942ffaf..d9214ba618 100644
--- a/src/txdb.h
+++ b/src/txdb.h
@@ -23,8 +23,10 @@ class uint256;
//! Compensate for extra memory peak (x1.5-x1.9) at flush time.
static constexpr int DB_PEAK_USAGE_FACTOR = 2;
-//! No need to flush if at least this much space still available.
-static constexpr int MAX_BLOCK_COINSDB_USAGE = 100 * DB_PEAK_USAGE_FACTOR;
+//! No need to periodic flush if at least this much space still available.
+static constexpr int MAX_BLOCK_COINSDB_USAGE = 200 * DB_PEAK_USAGE_FACTOR;
+//! Always periodic flush if less than this much space still available.
+static constexpr int MIN_BLOCK_COINSDB_USAGE = 50 * DB_PEAK_USAGE_FACTOR;
//! -dbcache default (MiB)
static const int64_t nDefaultDbCache = 450;
//! max. -dbcache (MiB)
diff --git a/src/validation.cpp b/src/validation.cpp
index b855550728..c9135c442b 100644
--- a/src/validation.cpp
+++ b/src/validation.cpp
@@ -2029,8 +2029,9 @@ bool static FlushStateToDisk(CValidationState &state, FlushStateMode mode, int n
int64_t nMempoolSizeMax = GetArg("-maxmempool", DEFAULT_MAX_MEMPOOL_SIZE) * 1000000;
int64_t cacheSize = pcoinsTip->DynamicMemoryUsage() * DB_PEAK_USAGE_FACTOR;
int64_t nTotalSpace = nCoinCacheUsage + std::max<int64_t>(nMempoolSizeMax - nMempoolUsage, 0);
- // The cache is large and we're within 10% and 100 MiB of the limit, but we have time now (not in the middle of a block processing).
- bool fCacheLarge = mode == FLUSH_STATE_PERIODIC && cacheSize > std::max((9 * nTotalSpace) / 10, nTotalSpace - MAX_BLOCK_COINSDB_USAGE * 1024 * 1024);
+ // The cache is large and we're within 10% and 200 MiB or 50% and 50MiB of the limit, but we have time now (not in the middle of a block processing).
+ bool fCacheLarge = mode == FLUSH_STATE_PERIODIC && cacheSize > std::min(std::max(nTotalSpace / 2, nTotalSpace - MIN_BLOCK_COINSDB_USAGE * 1024 * 1024),
+ std::max((9 * nTotalSpace) / 10, nTotalSpace - MAX_BLOCK_COINSDB_USAGE * 1024 * 1024));
// The cache is over the limit, we have to write now.
bool fCacheCritical = mode == FLUSH_STATE_IF_NEEDED && cacheSize > nTotalSpace;
// It's been a while since we wrote the block index to disk. Do this frequently, so we don't need to redownload after a crash.