* Add a struct to encapsulate common references and avoid passing
them around on every function.
* Consolidate `skip_sync_wait` and `awaiting_peers` in an
additional sync status.
* New awaiting peer status is initial too
* Replace logging backend to flexi-logger and add log rotation
* Changed flexi_logger to log4rs
* Disable logging level filtering in Root logger
* Support different logging levels for file and stdout
* Don't log messages from modules other than Grin-related
* Fix formatting
* Place backed up compressed log copies into log file directory
* Increase default log file size to 16 MiB
* Add comment to config file on log_max_size option
We select a peer to ask a block randomly. Peer's send channel has
capacity 10. If we need too many blocks we limit number of blocks to asks as a number of peers
* 10, which means that there is some probability (pretty high) that we
will overflow send buffer capacity.
This fix freezes a peer list (which gives also some performance boost)
and create a cycle iteraror to equally distribute requests among the
peers.
There is a risk that a peer may be disconnected while we are sending a
request to the chanel, but stricltly speaking it was possible in the old
code too, perhaps with a lower probability.
Fixes#1748
* header MMR in use within txhashset itself
works with fast sync
not yet in place for initial header sync
* add the (currently unused) sync_head mmr
* use sync MMR during fast sync
rebuild header MMR after we validate full txhashset after download
* support missing header MMR (rebuild as necessary) for legacy nodes
* rename to HashOnly
* cleanup backend.append()
* simplify vec_backend to match simpler append api
* First pass at secondary proof of work difficulty adjustments
* Core and chain test fixes
* Next difficulty calc now needs a height. Scaling calculation fixes. Setting scaling on mined block.
* Change factor to u32 instead of u64.
* Cleanup structs used by next_difficulty
* Fix header size calc with u32 scaling
* get rid of RwLock around peer instances
* rustfmt
* rename stuff to live_info
* rustfmt
* serialize into PeerInfoDisplay
limit live_info write lock to peer_info.update()
rename to PeerLiveInfo
* simplify broadcast logic a bit more
connected peers are connected by definition
* return true/false on broadcast so we can send to more peers
* rustfmt
* fix p2p and server tests for PeerInfoDisplay
* commit
Antioch Peverell