lighthouse/beacon_node/beacon_chain
Michael Sproul 507bb9dad4 Refined payload pruning (#3587)
## Proposed Changes

Improve the payload pruning feature in several ways:

- Payload pruning is now entirely optional. It is enabled by default but can be disabled with `--prune-payloads false`. The previous `--prune-payloads-on-startup` flag from #3565 is removed.
- Initial payload pruning on startup now runs in a background thread. This thread will always load the split state, which is a small fraction of its total work (up to ~300ms) and then backtrack from that state. This pruning process ran in 2m5s on one Prater node with good I/O and 16m on a node with slower I/O.
- To work with the optional payload pruning the database function `try_load_full_block` will now attempt to load execution payloads for finalized slots _if_ pruning is currently disabled. This gives users an opt-out for the extensive traffic between the CL and EL for reconstructing payloads.

## Additional Info

If the `prune-payloads` flag is toggled on and off then the on-startup check may not see any payloads to delete and fail to clean them up. In this case the `lighthouse db prune_payloads` command should be used to force a manual sweep of the database.
2022-09-19 07:58:49 +00:00
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src Refined payload pruning (#3587) 2022-09-19 07:58:49 +00:00
tests Prune finalized execution payloads (#3565) 2022-09-17 02:27:01 +00:00
Cargo.toml Avoid duplicate committee cache loads (#3574) 2022-09-16 08:54:03 +00:00