* "A path is considered invalid if and only if it enters and exits an
address node through trust lines where No Ripple has been enabled for
that address." (https://xrpl.org/rippling.html#specifics)
* When loading trust lines for an account "Alice" which was reached
via a trust line that has the No Ripple flag set on Alice's side, do
not use or cache any of Alice's trust lines which have the No Ripple
flag set on Alice's side. For typical "end-user" accounts, this will
return no trust lines.
One of the two versions of the `rngfill` function accepts a pointer
to a buffer and a size (in bytes). The function aims to fill the
provided `buffer` with `size` random bytes. It does this in chunks
of 8 bytes, for long as possible, and then fills any left-over gap
one byte at a time.
To avoid an annoying and incorrect warning about a potential buffer
overflow in the "trailing write", commit 78bc2727f7
used a `#pragma` to instruct the compiler to not generate the incorrect
diagnostic. Unfortunately, this change _also_ eliminated the trailing
write code, which means that, under some cases, the `rngfill` function
would generate between 1 and 7 fewer random bytes than requested.
This problem would only manifest on builds that do not define `__GNUC__`
which, as of this writing, means MSVC.
Several hard-coded parameters control the behavior of the ledger
acquisition engine. The values of many of these parameters where
set by intuition and have complex and non-intuitive interactions
with each other and other parts of the code.
An earlier commit attempted to adjust several of these parameters
to improve syncing performance; initial testing was promising but
a number of operators reported experiencing syncing and stability
issues with their servers. As a result, this commit reverts parts
of commit 18235067af.
This commit further adjusts some tunables so as to increase the
aggressiveness of the ledger acquisition engine.
This commit addresses minor bugs introduced with commit
6faaa91850:
- The number of threads used by the database engine was
incorrectly clamped to the lower possible value, such
that the database was effectively operating in single
threaded mode.
- The number of requests to extract at once was so high
that it could result in increased latency. The bundle
size is now limited to 4 and can be adjusted by a new
configuration option `rq_bundle` in the `[node_db]`
stanza. This is an advanced tunable and adjusting it
should not be needed.
