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/validators rpc response time grow with time.

Steps To Reproduce:

  1. start a new node from hight 1
    2.time curl 127.0.0.1:26657/validators, it takes 0.005s
  2. let the chain run for serveral days, and change no validators.in my scenario the height is : 1584840
  3. time curl 127.0.0.1:26857/validators, it takes 1.25s

The api consumes cpu resouces, in the long run, a small scale of DDOS can make the node
a zombie process.

Acturally the logic to do IncrementProposerPriority by height - valInfo.LastHeightChanged times will not replay the exactly ProposerPriority once there are two or more round.

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valInfo2.ValidatorSet.IncrementProposerPriority(int(height - valInfo.LastHeightChanged)) // mutate
valInfo = valInfo2
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A much simpler solution here might be saving/memoizing valInfo2 saveValidatorsInfo(db, height, valInfo2) instead of the whole shebang with the blockstore. Thoughts?

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A much simpler solution here might be saving/memoizing valInfo2 saveValidatorsInfo(db, height, valInfo2) instead of the whole shebang with the blockstore. Thoughts?

Ofcourse, if we can save all validatorInfo. The previous implement only save whole validatorInfo of latest height.

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A much simpler solution here might be saving/memoizing valInfo2 saveValidatorsInfo(db, height, valInfo2) instead of the whole shebang with the blockstore. Thoughts?

so should I modify code to saveValidatorsInfo(db, height, valInfo2), since it store redundant information ? @melekes updated. you may have a review.

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valInfo2.ValidatorSet.IncrementProposerPriority(int(height - valInfo.LastHeightChanged)) // mutate
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I thought we'd save valInfo2 here, not save for every height! I.e. we only call save once somebody tries to access it.

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I thought we'd save valInfo2 here, not save for every height! I.e. we only call save once somebody tries to access it.

But the replay result is not correct when there are two or more rounds at one height.

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How so? If we're using int(height - valInfo.LastHeightChanged) difference

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But the replay result is not correct when there are two or more rounds at one height.

Is that because we call IncrementProposerPriority per round for the same height (several times) then? Can you give an example (ideally a test) which clearly shows what you mean by "not correct" here @guagualvcha? That would be awesome.

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Note that the per-height proposer selection is independent of the per-round proposer selection. So the proposer at height=1 round=1 is the same as the proposer for height=2 round=0. Ie. see #3044

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Maybe we need a second implementation of the IncrementProposerPriority for when we know the validator set hasn't changed that can be computed much more quickly for this use case. cc @ancazamfir

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Maybe we need a second implementation of the IncrementProposerPriority for when we know the validator set hasn't changed that can be computed much more quickly for this use case. cc @ancazamfir

Great, that would be the final solution.

@xla xla changed the title fix rpc response time grow with time. rpc: Fix response time grow over time Mar 20, 2019
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h1 - the height of previous validator set change
h - the height of the status query
h2 - the current height

if h == h2 we could get the set from the state; else we have to do IncrementProposerPriority(h-h1) and I can't think of a much better way to compute it faster and still be accurate wrt proposer priorities.

Maybe something like this:

  • call:
    IncrementProposerPriority(int(height - valInfo.LastHeightChanged)%valInfo.TotalVotingPower())
  • memoize the valInfo every time we call RescalePriorities(). This happens even without validator set changes although rarely.

May still be costly for high total voting power values. Alternatively we could save the valInfo every N blocks and then call Increment with max N times.

I thought we'd save valInfo2 here, not save for every height! I.e. we only call save once somebody tries to access it.

@melekes - could you please clarify? There may be a lot of accesses for different heights, isn't memory usage a concern?

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h1 - the height of previous validator set change
h - the height of the status query
h2 - the current height

if h == h2 we could get the set from the state; else we have to do IncrementProposerPriority(h-h1) and I can't think of a much better way to compute it faster and still be accurate wrt proposer priorities.

Maybe something like this:

  • call:
    IncrementProposerPriority(int(height - valInfo.LastHeightChanged)%valInfo.TotalVotingPower())
  • memoize the valInfo every time we call RescalePriorities(). This happens even without validator set changes although rarely.

May still be costly for high total voting power values. Alternatively we could save the valInfo every N blocks and then call Increment with max N times.

I thought we'd save valInfo2 here, not save for every height! I.e. we only call save once somebody tries to access it.

@melekes - could you please clarify? There may be a lot of accesses for different heights, isn't memory usage a concern?

@melekes @ancazamfir updated as ancazamfir said. Please have a review.

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could you please clarify? There may be a lot of accesses for different heights, isn't memory usage a concern?

yes, but not big though comparing to DoS attack vector.

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melekes commented Apr 9, 2019

@guagualvcha please refrain from doing a rebase & force-push next time. When/if you do git rebase and force-push, 1) we can't see commit history 2) we can't review only new changes and forced to review everything every time. Thank you.

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@guagualvcha Have you tested this? What is the response time now? What about with 1<<14 or 15?

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melekes commented Apr 9, 2019

Closing in favor of #3537

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I don't think we need to expose it

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let's rename to valSetStoreInterval and add a comment persist validator set every valSetStoreInterval blocks to avoid LoadValidators taking too much time. Refs https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/pull/3438


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valInfo2 := loadValidatorsInfo(db, valInfo.LastHeightChanged)
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let's create a var called lastStoreHeight := height - height%valSetStoreInterval

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