[Bitcoin-development] Pull request: Optimize database writes for transactions with lots of TxIns.

2011-09-05 Thread Gavin Andresen
And I'd appreciate review/feedback on this: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/491 Patch from ArtForz, who discovered the problem. The problem was chaining large transactions (transactions with lots of ins and outs) would make the berkeley db transaction log get very big, as the dependenci

[Bitcoin-development] Pull request: faster initial blockchain download

2011-09-05 Thread Gavin Andresen
I'd appreciate review/feedback on this: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/492 This change skips ECDSA signature verification for transactions during the initial block-chain download, which makes downloading the block chain much faster. "Initial block chain download" is all blocks up to 120

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Adding a pong message to the protocol

2011-09-05 Thread Mike Hearn
> I'd rather see effort spent on the root issues, e.g. having nodes > gauge their own suitability (working inbound port, reasonably current > block chain, etc) before becoming advertised listeners. They can't always judge it, eg if the link between you and that peer is saturated then you may have

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Adding a pong message to the protocol

2011-09-05 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 8:04 AM, Mike Hearn wrote: > I haven't written a patch for this, I might do so if there's > sufficient interest. [snip] > Thoughts? I'd rather see effort spent on the root issues, e.g. having nodes gauge their own suitability (working inbound port, reasonably current block

Re: [Bitcoin-development] 0.4rc1 known bugs

2011-09-05 Thread Michael Grønager
Sorry, by bad - first clean checkout for quite a while (must have changed it earlier myself...). /M On 05/09/2011, at 14:42, Luke-Jr wrote: > On Monday, September 05, 2011 3:25:47 AM Michael Grønager wrote: >> Findings - compile (I do not use the UPNP feature): >> in the makefile.unix I have to

Re: [Bitcoin-development] 0.4rc1 known bugs

2011-09-05 Thread Luke-Jr
On Monday, September 05, 2011 3:25:47 AM Michael Grønager wrote: > Findings - compile (I do not use the UPNP feature): > in the makefile.unix I have to change the: > USE_UPNP:=0 > to > USE_UPNP:= > i.e. it is defined if it is "0" ! Yes, the default is "UPnP supported, disabled by default" (USE_UPN

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BitCoin and MinorFs/AppArmor

2011-09-05 Thread Rob Meijer
On Sat, September 3, 2011 09:04, John Smith wrote: > On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Rob Meijer wrote: > >> Given that there was not a single response to my post, I gather there is >> no to little interest in an updated MinorFs that could be used by >> bitcoin >> on systems that support AppArmor (

[Bitcoin-development] Adding a pong message to the protocol

2011-09-05 Thread Mike Hearn
I haven't written a patch for this, I might do so if there's sufficient interest. Nodes that are under heavy load exhibit extremely high latency, this makes downloading the block chain from a node that is itself downloading the block chain basically useless as it takes 30-60 seconds for the node t

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BitCoin and MinorFs/AppArmor

2011-09-05 Thread Rob Meijer
On Sat, September 3, 2011 00:05, Nils Schneider wrote: > MinorFs sounds like an interesting concept and but wallet encryption > (already being tested and close to release) is a simpler solution for > end-users. I think the two could be considered complementary. Basicaly the existing MinorFs provid

Re: [Bitcoin-development] 0.4rc1 known bugs

2011-09-05 Thread Michael Grønager
Hi Gavin, Did a quick compile and run (bitcoind, Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS) Findings - compile (I do not use the UPNP feature): in the makefile.unix I have to change the: USE_UPNP:=0 to USE_UPNP:= i.e. it is defined if it is "0" ! running: no apparent issues (I have never managed to trigger the deadl