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.
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.
42397359 Fixup 32bit arm build (TheCharlatan)
a06d2581 Fix Windows build (TheCharlatan)
ecaf5b3f Add libsodium to the packages, the arm build was complaining about it. (TheCharlatan)
cbbf4d24 Adapt translations to upstream changes (TheCharlatan)
db571546 Updated pcsc url (TheCharlatan)
f0ba19fd Add lrelease to the depends (TheCharlatan)
cfb30462 Add Miniupnp submodule (TheCharlatan)
5f7da005 Unbound is now a submodule. Adapt depends for this. (TheCharlatan)
d6b9bdd3 Update readmes to reflect the usage of depends (TheCharlatan)
56b6e41e Add support for apple and arm building (TheCharlatan)
29311fd1 Disable stack unwinding for mingw32 depends build. (TheCharlatan)
8db3d573 Modify depends for monero's dependencies (TheCharlatan)
0806a23a Initial depends addition (TheCharlatan)
Add pcsc-lite to linux builds
Fixup windows icu4c linking with depends, the static libraries have an 's' appended to them
Compiling depends arm-linux-gnueabihf will allow you to compile armv6zk monero binaries
It scans for known spent outputs and stores their public keys
in a database which can then be read by the wallet, which can
then avoid using those as fake outs in new transactions.
Usage: monero-blockchain-blackball db1 db2...
This uses the shared database in ~/.shared-ringdb
default install targets
Binaries available to download on https://getmonero.org/downloads/ as
embedding monerod, monero-wallet-{cli,rpc} and
monero-blockchain-{ex,im}port.
This change synchronise download results with a manual build from
source
71e28760 debug_utilities: only build for debug builds (moneromooo-monero)
55e150ff debug_utilities: new object-sizes debug tool (moneromooo-monero)
fbaf5375 cn_deserialize: move to new debug_utilities subdirectory (moneromooo-monero)
Quick test with the first 56569 blocks from mainnet
version verify batch time
old 0 200 1:16
new 0 200 0:57
old 0 5000 0:53
new 0 5000 0:51
old 1 200 est > 1h
new 1 200 10:21
old 1 5000 est > 1h
new 1 5000 8:27
This replaces the epee and data_loggers logging systems with
a single one, and also adds filename:line and explicit severity
levels. Categories may be defined, and logging severity set
by category (or set of categories). epee style 0-4 log level
maps to a sensible severity configuration. Log files now also
rotate when reaching 100 MB.
To select which logs to output, use the MONERO_LOGS environment
variable, with a comma separated list of categories (globs are
supported), with their requested severity level after a colon.
If a log matches more than one such setting, the last one in
the configuration string applies. A few examples:
This one is (mostly) silent, only outputting fatal errors:
MONERO_LOGS=*:FATAL
This one is very verbose:
MONERO_LOGS=*:TRACE
This one is totally silent (logwise):
MONERO_LOGS=""
This one outputs all errors and warnings, except for the
"verify" category, which prints just fatal errors (the verify
category is used for logs about incoming transactions and
blocks, and it is expected that some/many will fail to verify,
hence we don't want the spam):
MONERO_LOGS=*:WARNING,verify:FATAL
Log levels are, in decreasing order of priority:
FATAL, ERROR, WARNING, INFO, DEBUG, TRACE
Subcategories may be added using prefixes and globs. This
example will output net.p2p logs at the TRACE level, but all
other net* logs only at INFO:
MONERO_LOGS=*:ERROR,net*:INFO,net.p2p:TRACE
Logs which are intended for the user (which Monero was using
a lot through epee, but really isn't a nice way to go things)
should use the "global" category. There are a few helper macros
for using this category, eg: MGINFO("this shows up by default")
or MGINFO_RED("this is red"), to try to keep a similar look
and feel for now.
Existing epee log macros still exist, and map to the new log
levels, but since they're used as a "user facing" UI element
as much as a logging system, they often don't map well to log
severities (ie, a log level 0 log may be an error, or may be
something we want the user to see, such as an important info).
In those cases, I tried to use the new macros. In other cases,
I left the existing macros in. When modifying logs, it is
probably best to switch to the new macros with explicit levels.
The --log-level options and set_log commands now also accept
category settings, in addition to the epee style log levels.
Keep the immediate direct deps at the library that depends on them,
declare deps as PUBLIC so that targets that link against that library
get the library's deps as transitive deps.
Break dep cycle between blockchain_db <-> crytonote_core.
No code refactoring, just hide cycle from cmake so that
it doesn't complain (cycles are allowed only between
static libs, not shared libs).
This is in preparation for supproting BUILD_SHARED_LIBS cmake
built-in option for building internal libs as shared.
Pass the CMake bit width setting to compile flags for blockchain_import
and blockchain_converter.
For LMDB on 32-bit, hyc has found that batch size of 100 appears to be a
good default.
