fiatjaf has a cheap VPS, connecting remotely to his home bitcoind node.
fiatjaf's latency on bitcoin-cli getblock is between 10 and 37 seconds.
fiatjaf's c-lightning node is getting one block per hour.
fiatjaf is sad.
We single-file our bitcoind requests, because bitcoind has a limited
thread pool and it *fails* rather than queueing if you upset it. We
probably be fine using separate queues for each command type, but simply
allowing some requests to cut in line should prove my theory that we're
getting stuck behind gossip verification requests.
fiatjaf now gets one block per 2 minutes.
fiatjaf is less sad.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
It introduces imprecision (took 1 satoshi off results in the coming
tests), and we have a helper for this already.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Turn req_running into a pointer to the current bcli structure, which means
the leak detection can find it.
Also suppress leaks in the case where we're only attached to a timer
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
In the short_channel_id check we were copying the entire result into the next
bitcoin-cli call, including the newline character.
Signed-off-by: Christian Decker <decker.christian@gmail.com>
Reported-By: @gdassori
If we're going to simply take() a pointer, don't allocate it off a random
object. Using NULL makes our intent clear, particularly with allocating
packets we're going to take() onto a queue.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Improve usability in these scenarios:
* bitcoin-cli not available in PATH and/or bitcoind not running
* bitcoin-cli available in PATH but bitcoind is not running
There are two recurring calls: the estimatefee call and the
getblockcount call. Currently we simply discard them on error, the
timer isn't rearmed.
This should fix a number of cases where bitcoind has an intermittant
failure and lightningd simply stops collecting blocks.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
In particular, process_getblockhash() exits with status 8 when the block
number is out of range, which is expected. Any other exit status should
be treated as a spurious error.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
We may need to lookup UTXO entries for other reasons, so here we
disentangle it and make it into its own method.
Signed-off-by: Christian Decker <decker.christian@gmail.com>
Might help alleviate some of the issues of having to run a full-node
on the same machine as `lightningd`.
Signed-off-by: Christian Decker <decker.christian@gmail.com>
We added code to allow a few spurious failures, but it didn't unmark
the request running.
IRC user 'mlz' (@molxyz) provided logs from his stuck-at-old-block lightningd:
lightningd(31981): Adding block 1261159: 00000000da3890ccd0f313a74fccfd4789654b496836da5c28a8d2ad28852264
lightningd(31981): Adding block 1261160: 00000000f70938a33aecbdd7b047cb5cf5b095ea4770c1335acf1859bad1e767
lightningd(31981): bitcoin-cli -testnet estimatesmartfee 2 CONSERVATIVE exited with status 1
Fixes: #749
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
This is a common occurence on pruned nodes. By calling the callback
upon failures, we communicate that we couldn't verify the txoutput. We
fail safe rejecting any channel we can't verify.
Signed-off-by: Christian Decker <decker.christian@gmail.com>
exit status is not enough to detect spent outputs. gettxout will return a
success exit code and 0 bytes.
Signed-off-by: William Casarin <jb55@jb55.com>
It would be nice if bitcoind had an RPC to do this in one, but that's
a bit much to ask for. We could also hand around proofs, for lite nodes.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
It's just a sha256_double, but importantly when we convert it to a
string (in type_to_string, which is used in logging) we use
bitcoin_blkid_to_hex() so it's reversed as people expect.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
We have things which we don't keep a pointer to, but aren't leaks.
Some are simply eternal (eg. listening sockets), others cases are
io_conn tied to the lifetime of an fd, and timers which expire.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
The wire protocol uses this, in the assumption that we'll never see feerates
in excess of 4294967 satoshi per kiloweight.
So let's use that consistently internally as well.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Depending on what we're doing, we can want different ones. So use
IMMEDIATE (estimatesmartfee 2 CONSERVATIVE), NORMAL (estimatesmartfee
4 ECONOMICAL) and SLOW (estimatesmartfee 100 ECONOMICAL).
If one isn't available, we try making each one half the previous.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
This means we convert it when retrieving from bitcoind; internally it's
always satoshi-per-1000-weight aka millisatoshi-per-weight.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
This is a subset of a "bitcoind: wrap callbacks in transaction." from
the everything-in-transaction branch, but we need the ld pointer now.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
They don't currently, since callers check, but be safe. In addition,
handle NULL returns from these in the bitcoind code.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Seems to go out to lunch on reorgs:
+136792.168286138 lightningd(9465):BROKEN: bitcoin-cli getchaintips exited 28: 'error code: -28
error message:
Rewinding blocks...
Closes: #286
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
We don't hit this in testing, since we wait for startup already. Hacking
tests to avoid that, I tested this code by hand.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
lightningd can crash on shutdown if it's in the middle of getchaintips;
we free the conn, the finished callback is called (process_chaintips),
and it reports that it received an empty result.
The simplest fix is to set a flag in the struct bitcoind destructor,
and avoid the callback.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Also, we split the more sophisticated json_add helpers to avoid pulling in
everything into lightning-cli, and unify the routines to print struct
short_channel_id (it's ':', not '/' too).
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
