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Mac L
0847986936 Reduce outbound requests to eth1 endpoints (#2340)
## Issue Addressed

#2282 

## Proposed Changes

Reduce the outbound requests made to eth1 endpoints by caching the results from `eth_chainId` and `net_version`.
Further reduce the overall request count by increasing `auto_update_interval_millis` from `7_000` (7 seconds) to `60_000` (1 minute). 
This will result in a reduction from ~2000 requests per hour to 360 requests per hour (during normal operation). A reduction of 82%.

## Additional Info

If an endpoint fails, its state is dropped from the cache and the `eth_chainId` and `net_version` calls will be made for that endpoint again during the regular update cycle (once per minute) until it is back online.


Co-authored-by: Paul Hauner <paul@paulhauner.com>
2021-05-31 04:18:18 +00:00
blacktemplar
38b15deccb Fallback nodes for eth1 access (#1918)
## Issue Addressed

part of  #1883

## Proposed Changes

Adds a new cli argument `--eth1-endpoints` that can be used instead of `--eth1-endpoint` to specify a comma-separated list of endpoints. If the first endpoint returns an error for some request the other endpoints are tried in the given order.

## Additional Info

Currently if the first endpoint fails the fallbacks are used silently (except for `try_fallback_test_endpoint` that is used in `do_update` which logs a `WARN` for each endpoint that is not reachable). A question is if we should add more logs so that the user gets warned if his main endpoint is for example just slow and sometimes hits timeouts.
2020-11-27 08:37:44 +00:00