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authorWladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>2019-02-21 18:57:01 +0100
committerWladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>2019-02-21 18:57:21 +0100
commita83aedca1889709feb8e6b2d2d18340151220338 (patch)
tree425aad516ae10923015c18662fe87f9b1210dd39 /src
parentb853746d4a8a8ac0d3f535538e2ac4e3cc14e1c7 (diff)
parent7cb1a1401d2dcc82d2c7ca7ee1d3067dc4ada5e8 (diff)
downloadbitcoin-a83aedca1889709feb8e6b2d2d18340151220338.tar.xz
Merge #13676: Explain that mempool memory is added to -dbcache
7cb1a1401d2dcc82d2c7ca7ee1d3067dc4ada5e8 Explain that unused mempool memory is added to -dbcache (Sjors Provoost) Pull request description: Since `-maxmempool` is 450 MB by default it's quite possible for a user to accidentally OOM a low memory device if they increase `-dbcache` beyond the default. <img width="563" alt="schermafbeelding 2018-09-06 om 17 02 40" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/10217/45166219-c9c4f700-b1f6-11e8-9ee5-14b8b3a9830b.png"> Tree-SHA512: 44c7419d0b06c14aee5d2c02a41e5da488bcb40a5f65ba24554a45707b222f1e4b03d42486dfef9336d917ac2990eef2b1aec287a75b3ef1ccca0e88ac86a0c0
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/init.cpp2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/init.cpp b/src/init.cpp
index caab4a5674..8b831a726f 100644
--- a/src/init.cpp
+++ b/src/init.cpp
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ void SetupServerArgs()
gArgs.AddArg("-conf=<file>", strprintf("Specify configuration file. Relative paths will be prefixed by datadir location. (default: %s)", BITCOIN_CONF_FILENAME), false, OptionsCategory::OPTIONS);
gArgs.AddArg("-datadir=<dir>", "Specify data directory", false, OptionsCategory::OPTIONS);
gArgs.AddArg("-dbbatchsize", strprintf("Maximum database write batch size in bytes (default: %u)", nDefaultDbBatchSize), true, OptionsCategory::OPTIONS);
- gArgs.AddArg("-dbcache=<n>", strprintf("Set database cache size in MiB (%d to %d, default: %d)", nMinDbCache, nMaxDbCache, nDefaultDbCache), false, OptionsCategory::OPTIONS);
+ gArgs.AddArg("-dbcache=<n>", strprintf("Maximum database cache size <n> MiB (%d to %d, default: %d). In addition, unused mempool memory is shared for this cache (see -maxmempool).", nMinDbCache, nMaxDbCache, nDefaultDbCache), false, OptionsCategory::OPTIONS);
gArgs.AddArg("-debuglogfile=<file>", strprintf("Specify location of debug log file. Relative paths will be prefixed by a net-specific datadir location. (-nodebuglogfile to disable; default: %s)", DEFAULT_DEBUGLOGFILE), false, OptionsCategory::OPTIONS);
gArgs.AddArg("-feefilter", strprintf("Tell other nodes to filter invs to us by our mempool min fee (default: %u)", DEFAULT_FEEFILTER), true, OptionsCategory::OPTIONS);
gArgs.AddArg("-includeconf=<file>", "Specify additional configuration file, relative to the -datadir path (only useable from configuration file, not command line)", false, OptionsCategory::OPTIONS);