Blockchain Release: Snapshot Loading Improvements
The core developers have tagged a new 2022.01.29.0
miner
release. This
release is recommended for all makers, but is only mandatory for Hotspots that
are no longer able to load the latest snapshot. As the network gets larger and
the snapshot size increases, Hotspots with less RAM will have trouble loading
them. We will continue to support these Hotspots until all manufacturers have
an upgrade path to Light Hotspot firmware.
Prior to this release, the blocks from snapshot were all loaded into memory before being imported; this release switches to importing the snapshot blocks from disk, one at a time, and avoiding using more memory than is strictly necessary.
Related PRs
- blockchain-core#1225: stream blocks from file
Plan
We have been testing 2022.01.29.0
since Jan 28, 2022 10:00 PM EST.
Current ETA for GA is Jan 31, 2022 2:00 PM PST.