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authorW. J. van der Laan <laanwj@protonmail.com>2021-05-05 16:10:21 +0200
committerW. J. van der Laan <laanwj@protonmail.com>2021-05-05 16:10:55 +0200
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Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#21709: doc: update reduce-memory.md and bitcoin.conf -maxconnections info
300234ab6698277fb261a87be72f89ef94d3697a doc: update bitcoin.conf maxconnections info (Jon Atack) 926827065ffa56b75e9261f63d49b924d4bced0f doc: update reduce-memory.md peer connections info (Jon Atack) Pull request description: This patch updates the documentation in `doc/reduce-memory.md` and `share/examples/bitcoin.conf` regarding the peer connections limits and `-maxconnections` ACKs for top commit: jarolrod: re-ACK 300234ab6698277fb261a87be72f89ef94d3697a laanwj: ACK 300234ab6698277fb261a87be72f89ef94d3697a prayank23: ACK https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/21709/commits/300234ab6698277fb261a87be72f89ef94d3697a Tree-SHA512: 90f53626124afb50706e6a3b644bc7bb800bb7cf41ae7062c20c17b3d9bdf4a8d73b4cf188faec9113d772596f7e4bc36a4a69481cacb92cc55d5956181d0c31
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## 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