Ok, pushed, thanks! -Christian On 9/24/20 10:21 PM, Alessio Vanni wrote: > Hello, > > currently "gnunet-service-transport" logs the time it took to send some > bytes to a certain peer. The problem with this logging is that it > floods the logfile with a lot of essentially useless informations. > > Aside not really telling anything useful to users (the timing is really > interesting only to those people measuring the performance of the > service/network), it generates a lot of disk writing and easily fill up > disk space (after something like 30 minutes of my peer being active, I > get a log file of several megabytes.) > > Another downside is that it actually hides other informations that might > actually be important: for example right now I'm getting a lot of > protocol violation messages within CADET; they were hidden by transport > before (or anyway hard to find.) > > The attached patch adds an option to configure.ac to control the > logging. It's disabled by default so normal users don't have to change > their "configure" incantation and people actually interested in > transport performance can opt-in without too much hassle (the option > name is long on purpose.) > > When TNG is ready to take over, the option can be removed or even > recycled for the new code. In the meantime, it will avoid a lot of noise > and disk activity. > > Thanks, > A.V. >
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