On hosts that had spent some time with a failed internet connection their nAttempts penalty was going through the roof (e.g. thousands for all peers) and as a result the connect search was pegging the CPU and failing to get more than a 4 connections after days of running (because it was taking so long per try).
Cap nAttempts penalty at 8 and switch to pow instead of a division loop. #6029
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gmaxwell commented at 6:52 PM on April 19, 2015: contributor
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Cap nAttempts penalty at 8 and switch to pow instead of a division loop.
On hosts that had spent some time with a failed internet connection their nAttempts penalty was going through the roof (e.g. thousands for all peers) and as a result the connect search was pegging the CPU and failing to get more than a 4 connections after days of running (because it was taking so long per try).
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laanwj commented at 11:46 AM on April 20, 2015: member
Makes sense, utACK
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laanwj commented at 12:00 PM on April 20, 2015: member
Cherry-picked to 0.10 as 139cd8177be4895f8b4c2befee35030bdf96132
- gmaxwell referenced this in commit 139cd8177b on Apr 20, 2015
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