Re: [Bitcoin-development] Large backlog of transactions building up?

2012-09-25 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Jorge Timón wrote: > On 9/23/12, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> - provides a deterministic lifetime for a TX; if you KNOW a TX will >> disappear 144 blocks (24 hours) after you stop transmitting, then it >> is probably safe to initiate recovery procedures and perhaps revis

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Large backlog of transactions building up?

2012-09-25 Thread Jorge Timón
On 9/23/12, Jeff Garzik wrote: > - provides a deterministic lifetime for a TX; if you KNOW a TX will > disappear 144 blocks (24 hours) after you stop transmitting, then it > is probably safe to initiate recovery procedures and perhaps revise > the transaction > - prevents zombie TXs from littering

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Large backlog of transactions building up?

2012-09-23 Thread Mike Hearn
> Sounds good— my only concern is that nodes will repeat their own > transactions but not the unconfirmed parents. Nodes repeat wallet transactions and any previous transactions that are not yet included in the chain (see CWalletTx::RelayWalletTransaction). So I don't think it's an issue. (ok, bi

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Large backlog of transactions building up?

2012-09-23 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Yeah, my public nodes currently have 2200+ Over time, it gets > cluttered naturally due to the disconnect between what miners mine and > what relayers relay. Right, this disconnect is why simple scalar measures of mempool size aren't terribly

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Large backlog of transactions building up?

2012-09-23 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Mike Hearn wrote: > Has anyone got long term longs that contain the pool size and timestamps? > > Unfortunately I forgot to enable timestamps in the logs for my own > nodes (the privacy benefit of disabling this by default is > questionable, imho). But just looking

[Bitcoin-development] Large backlog of transactions building up?

2012-09-23 Thread Mike Hearn
Has anyone got long term longs that contain the pool size and timestamps? Unfortunately I forgot to enable timestamps in the logs for my own nodes (the privacy benefit of disabling this by default is questionable, imho). But just looking at the general trends and cross-checking against my own memo