btcd/mempool/log.go
Dave Collins e306158e25
mempool: Implement orphan expiration.
This implements orphan expiration in the mempool such that any orphans
that have not had their ancestors materialize within 15 minutes of their
initial arrival time will be evicted which in turn will remove any other
orphans that attempted to redeem it.

In order to perform the evictions with reasonable efficiency, an
opportunistic scan interval of 5 minutes is used.  That is to say that
there is not a hard deadline on the scan interval and instead it runs
when a new orphan is added to the pool if enough time has passed.

The following is an example of running this code against the main
network for around 30 minutes:

23:05:34 2016-10-24 [DBG] TXMP: Expired 3 orphans (remaining: 254)
23:10:38 2016-10-24 [DBG] TXMP: Expired 112 orphans (remaining: 231)
23:15:43 2016-10-24 [DBG] TXMP: Expired 95 orphans (remaining: 206)
23:20:44 2016-10-24 [DBG] TXMP: Expired 90 orphans (remaining: 191)
23:25:51 2016-10-24 [DBG] TXMP: Expired 71 orphans (remaining: 191)
23:30:55 2016-10-24 [DBG] TXMP: Expired 70 orphans (remaining: 105)
23:36:19 2016-10-24 [DBG] TXMP: Expired 55 orphans (remaining: 107)

As can be seen from the above, without orphan expiration on this data
set, the orphan pool would have grown an additional 496 entries.
2016-10-25 15:37:29 -05:00

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// Copyright (c) 2013-2016 The btcsuite developers
// Use of this source code is governed by an ISC
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
package mempool
import (
"github.com/btcsuite/btclog"
)
// log is a logger that is initialized with no output filters. This
// means the package will not perform any logging by default until the caller
// requests it.
var log btclog.Logger
// The default amount of logging is none.
func init() {
DisableLog()
}
// DisableLog disables all library log output. Logging output is disabled
// by default until either UseLogger or SetLogWriter are called.
func DisableLog() {
log = btclog.Disabled
}
// UseLogger uses a specified Logger to output package logging info.
// This should be used in preference to SetLogWriter if the caller is also
// using btclog.
func UseLogger(logger btclog.Logger) {
log = logger
}
// pickNoun returns the singular or plural form of a noun depending
// on the count n.
func pickNoun(n int, singular, plural string) string {
if n == 1 {
return singular
}
return plural
}