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From: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com>
To: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	bitcoin-security@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Warning: many 0.7 nodes break on large number of tx/block; fork risk
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 05:38:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAS2fgSOxon1m79gA_afgG7ypHRJfurb4ydZuCBgb_sSy1HG+w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANEZrP2V9uDQ-dmyaUBbsCuj5u3Mrh+jvU9RDpYkrKQV6+t0tQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 2:10 AM, Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net> wrote:
> BDB ran out of locks.
> However, only on some 0.7 nodes. Others, perhaps nodes using different
> flags, managed it.
> We have processed 1mb sized blocks on the testnet.
> Therefore it isn't presently clear why that particular block caused
> lock exhaustion when other larger blocks have not.

Locks are only mostly related to block size, once I heard what was
happening I was unsurprised the max sized test blocks hadn't triggered
it.

> Therefore it is possible that we have a very limited amount of time
until nodes start dying en-masse.

Scaremongering much? Egads.

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 5:27 AM, Michael Gronager <gronager@ceptacle.com> wrote:
> Forks are caused by rejection criteria, hence:
> 1. If you introduce new rejection criteria in an upgrade miners should upgrade _first_.
> 2. If you loosen some rejection criteria miners should upgrade _last_.
> 3. If you keep the same criteria assume 2.

And ... if you aren't aware that you're making a change ???



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-03-12 12:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-12  0:18 [Bitcoin-development] Warning: many 0.7 nodes break on large number of tx/block; fork risk Pieter Wuille
2013-03-12  1:01 ` Pieter Wuille
2013-03-12  9:10   ` Mike Hearn
2013-03-12  9:53     `  Jorge Timón
2013-03-12  9:57     ` Peter Todd
2013-03-12 10:10       ` Mike Hearn
2013-03-12 10:17         ` Peter Todd
2013-03-12 10:13     ` Michael Gronager
2013-03-12 10:26       ` Peter Todd
2013-03-12 10:43         ` Mike Hearn
2013-03-12 10:40       ` Roy Badami
2013-03-12 11:44       ` Pieter Wuille
2013-03-12 12:11         ` Mike Hearn
2013-03-12 12:27           ` Michael Gronager
2013-03-12 12:18         `  Jorge Timón
2013-03-12 12:40           ` Jay F
2013-03-12 12:38     ` Gregory Maxwell [this message]
2013-03-12 13:00       ` Michael Gronager

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