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.
While the lookups are faster, the zeroCommit calls have to be
done again when storing the new outputs in the db, which ends
up making the whole thing slower after all, and the ways this
can be cached aren't very nice code wise, so let's forget it
since the gains aren't very large anyway.
Some of the inputs for block in a span will be from other earlier
blocks in that span. Keep track of those outputs so we don't have
to look them up again after those early blocks are added to the
blockchain.
This avoids constant rechecking of the same things each time
a miner asks for the block template. The tx pool maintains
a cookie to allow users to detect when the pool state changed,
which means the block template needs rebuilding.
149da42 db_lmdb: enable batch transactions by default (stoffu)
34cb6b4 add --regtest and --fixed-difficulty for regression testing (vicsn)
9e1403e update get_info RPC and bump RPC version (vicsn)
207b66e first new functional tests (vicsn)
on_generateblocks RPC call combines functionality from the on_getblocktemplate and on_submitblock RPC calls to allow rapid block creation. Difficulty is set permanently to 1 for regtest.
Makes use of FAKECHAIN network type, but takes hard fork heights from mainchain
Default reserve_size in generate_blocks RPC call is now 1. If it is 0, the following error occurs 'Failed to calculate offset for'.
Queries hard fork heights info of other network types
Takes about 10 ms, which takes pretty much all of the get_info
RPC, which is called pretty often from wallets.
Also add a new lock so we don't need to lock the blockchain lock,
which will avoid blocking for a long time when calling the getinfo
RPC while syncing. Users of get_difficulty_for_next_block who need
the lock will have locked it already.
