- objectsKnownToThem is supposed to track if it's necessary to send inv
commands to a peer
- it is supposed to enter garbage collection after 1 hour
(ObjectTracker.trackingExpires)
- due to peer not announcing all objects, or announcing them before we
announce, this contains excessive number of entries after connection
is fully established.
- profiling revealed that this creates unnecessary memory to be kept
allocated
- this patch will prevent tracking of entries sent during bigInv,
reducing the memory "leak"
- it is possible, in theory, that this does have some negative effect,
like increased bandwidth or neglecting to announce some invs. It
probably doesn't though as my review of objectsKnownToThem occurrences
didn't reveal any such case, and since the dict didn't track fully
accurately anyway (so it would have already been broken if it was a
problem), I consider it an acceptable risk at the moment. If it indeed
causes problems, they can be solved separately
- I tested this on one of the bootstrap servers with little memory, and
it increased the number of connections than can be handled by a factor
of about 3.5
- new options in network section: onionsocksproxytype,
onionsockshostname and onionsocksport. These allow to separate
connectivity types for onion and non-onion addresses, e.g. connect to
clear nodes over clearnet and onions over tor
- also remove some obsolete imports
- dandelion fixes
- try to wait as long as possible before expiration if there are no
outbound connections
- expire in invThread rather than singleCleaner thread
- deduplication of code in inv and dinv command methods
- turn on by default, seems to work correctly now
- turn off dandelion if outbound connections are disabled
- start tracking downloads earlier, and faster download loop
- remove some obsolete lines
- minor PEP8 updates
- will try to report "Server full" over protocol for 10 extra
connections over limit, instead of simply dropping them
- if connected to the same host inbound and outbound, handle as server
full (prevents duplicate connections)
- I thought this is done automatically through garbage collection, but I
think as the channel is still assigned in the asyncore map, it needs
to be done manually. Basically filehandle limit exceeded and it
crashed
- dandelion would always think there is a cycle and trigger fluff
- cycle fluff trigger didn't correctly re-download and re-announce the
object. Now it remembers between (d)inv and object commands that it's
in a fluff trigger phase.
