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| author | Jon Atack <jon@atack.com> | 2021-04-16 18:36:56 +0200 |
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| committer | Jon Atack <jon@atack.com> | 2021-04-17 20:17:59 +0200 |
| commit | 926827065ffa56b75e9261f63d49b924d4bced0f (patch) | |
| tree | ad3070fc6bef8e151d3259758e48a3dea1046d16 | |
| parent | 585cbe22575306c05b156ea90faa9caa1add4c87 (diff) | |
doc: update reduce-memory.md peer connections info
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/reduce-memory.md | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/reduce-memory.md b/doc/reduce-memory.md index 6e7a578ecc..296b172bde 100644 --- a/doc/reduce-memory.md +++ b/doc/reduce-memory.md @@ -24,9 +24,13 @@ The size of some in-memory caches can be reduced. As caches trade off memory usa ## Number of peers -- `-maxconnections=<n>` - the maximum number of connections, this defaults to 125. Each active connection takes up some - memory. This option applies only if incoming connections are enabled, otherwise the number of connections will never - be more than 10. Of the 10 outbound peers, there can be 8 full-relay connections and 2 block-relay-only ones. +- `-maxconnections=<n>` - the maximum number of connections, which defaults to 125. Each active connection takes up some + memory. This option applies only if inbound connections are enabled; otherwise, the number of connections will not + be more than 11. Of the 11 outbound peers, there can be 8 full-relay connections, 2 block-relay-only ones, + and occasionally 1 short-lived feeler or extra outbound block-relay-only connection. + +- These limits do not apply to connections added manually with the `-addnode` configuration option or + the `addnode` RPC, which have a separate limit of 8 connections. ## Thread configuration |