We already mark peers as misbehaved if they returned invalid signatures, but this wasn't sufficient when multiple copies of the same invalid block exist on the network (e.g. after a hard fork). In these cases, we need to be more proactive to avoid syncing with these peers, to increase the chances of preserving other candidate blocks.
Previously, a peer would be continuously considered not 'old' if it had a connection attempt in the past day. This prevented some peers from being removed, causing nodes to hold a large repository of peers. On slower systems, this large number of known peers resulted in low numbers of outbound connections being made, presumably because of the time taken to iterate through dataset, using up a lot of allKnownPeers lock time.
On devices that experienced the problem, it could be solved by deleting all known peers. This adds confidence that the old peers were the problem.
Previously, a peer would be continuously considered not 'old' if it had a connection attempt in the past day. This prevented some peers from being removed, causing nodes to hold a large repository of peers. On slower systems, this large number of known peers resulted in low numbers of outbound connections being made, presumably because of the time taken to iterate through dataset, using up a lot of allKnownPeers lock time.
On devices that experienced the problem, it could be solved by deleting all known peers. This adds confidence that the old peers were the problem.
- Show "Minting" as long as online accounts are submitted to the network (previously it related to block signing).
- Fixed bug causing it to regularly show "Synchronizing 100%".
- Only show "Synchronizing" if the chain falls more than 2 hours behind - anything less is unnecessary noise.
Symptoms are:
* AutoUpdate trying to run new ApplyUpdate process, but nothing appears in log-apply-update.?.txt
* Main qortal.jar process continues to run without updating
* Last AutoUpdate line in log.txt.? is:
2022-06-18 15:42:46 INFO AutoUpdate:258 - Applying update with: /usr/local/openjdk11/bin/java -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=false -Xss256k -Xmx1024m -agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=127.0.0.1:5005 -cp new-qortal.jar org.qortal.ApplyUpdate
Changes are:
* child process now inherits parent's stdout / stderr (was piped from parent)
* child process is given a fresh stdin, which is immediately closed
* AutoUpdate now converts -agentlib JVM arg to -DQORTAL_agentlib
* ApplyUpdate converts -DQORTAL_agentlib to -agentlib
The latter two changes are to prevent a conflict where two processes try to reuse the same JVM debugging port number.
