Nodes that are out of sync will queue many transactions, which causes
the initial transactions message to grow very large. Larger transactions
messages can make communication impossible if the message is too big to
send. Big transactions messages also exhaust egress bandwidth, which
degrades other peer connections.
The new approach to combat these issues is to send transactions in
smaller batches. This commit introduces a new goroutine that handles
delivery of all initial transaction transfers. Size-limited packs of
transactions are sent to one peer at a time, conserving precious egress
bandwidth.
Added a cancel method to the downloader which gracefully shuts down any
active syncing process (hash fetching or block downloading) and resets
the queue and remove any pending blocks.
Issue with the downloader which would stall because of an active ongoing
process when an invalid block was found.
The downloader is no longer responsible for processing blocks. The
eth-protocol handler now takes care of this instead.
Added graceful shutdown during block processing. Closes#846
Péter Szilágyi
Felix Lange
obscuren
Jason Carver