Chain folder keeps growing

Wed, 30 Mar 2016 10:22:20 +0000

Hello,

I ran a test last night, in which I wanted to issue 30 000 assets from one node to another - nothing new, we done it many times. The only parameter we changed in params.dat file before we started this test is "mining-diversity", and set it to 0.75.

The setup was: three nodes on three servers "blockserver1", "blockserver4" and "blockserver5". The last one was connected to blockchain but stayed idle.

However, very strange thing happened. After our program finished inserting assets on server "blockserver1" onto address of node on "blockserver4", debug.log on "blockserver4" continued to write data (you can find most representative display in file "bs4-utst6-tail-debug-excerpt.png" of .zip archive I'll link later). We left it overnight, and when we came into the office this morning, folder "utest6" which was the name of the chain that we tested on was 58GB in size.

We left it for another 20ish minutes and checked it again. It grew to 59GB.

listassets command lists just 30 000 assets, our program is not working anymore (triple-checked it with additional top and ps -ef commands on all servers).

We wanted to know why this strange thing had happened. Also, I zipped some screenshots of our terminal (it would be insane if I zipped whole directory) with "du -h" and "tail -f debug.log" commands, and you can find it on following link: http://bit.ly/1MSdowd .

Also, if you have anything else you need, just send me a message, and I'll provide it to you.

Thanks in advance,
Sloba

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