Giving myself the answer ;-): It seems that the heavy loading of so many blockheaders just consumed a lot o CPU and that caused that bas user experience to have the startup getting stalled. With a newly created up to date checkpoint file the initial download is not super fast.
There are probably a few minor issues like the disconnection from the local node, the orphan (seems an block processing ordering issue) and the logs not being clear... Am Donnerstag, 6. Dezember 2018 00:27:24 UTC+1 schrieb Manfred Karrer: > > After further testing I could isolate the issue to be between v14.4. and > v.14.5. Bisq is based on 14.4. After comparing and I found that the > checkpoint files was causing the issue. After updating it from 14.5. it > works. Any idea why? > > I got those logs in the "broken" version: > 00:09:44 26 AbstractBlockChain.add: Block does not connect: > 000000000001c7ea71d37675ab53ee77851d46bcd2688077343eeccda4d50570 prev > 000000000000ff74c2f0973e6b9eb0fa6f9033ee093dc38e7cbec52b7cc5ef41 > 00:09:45 26 AbstractBlockChain.tryConnectingOrphans: Connected orphan > 000000000001c7ea71d37675ab53ee77851d46bcd2688077343eeccda4d50570 > 00:09:45 26 AbstractBlockChain.tryConnectingOrphans: Connected 1 orphan > blocks. > > maybe thats related... > > Am Dienstag, 4. Dezember 2018 17:18:35 UTC+1 schrieb Andreas Schildbach: >> >> The stall messages are just a symptom. For finding the cause have a look >> at the logfile of both bitcoinj and Bitcoin Core. >> >> >> On 04/12/2018 00.12, Manfred Karrer wrote: >> > I use whitelist=127.0.0.1 in the bitcoin.conf file. There was another >> > property but that does require the port as well and we use random local >> > ports. >> > >> > Am Montag, 3. Dezember 2018 23:12:33 UTC+1 schrieb Jameson Lopp: >> > >> > Hmmmm I believe I ran into similar issues a while back - have you >> > tried whitelisting the IP of your bitcoinj client in the Bitcoin >> > Core conf? >> > >> > I also vaguely recall getting stalled connections from time to time >> > and adding logic in my app to hack around it by disconnecting and >> > reconnecting. >> > >> > On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 4:51 PM Manfred Karrer <manfred...@gmail.com> >> >> > wrote: >> > >> > Here is a bug report form a user as >> > well: https://github.com/bisq-network/bisq/issues/1823 >> > <https://github.com/bisq-network/bisq/issues/1823> >> > >> > Here is the fork we are using: >> > https://github.com/bisq-network/bitcoinj/commits/bisq_0.14.4.1 >> > <https://github.com/bisq-network/bitcoinj/commits/bisq_0.14.4.1> >> >> > >> > >> > Am Sonntag, 2. Dezember 2018 18:53:49 UTC+1 schrieb Manfred >> Karrer: >> > >> > When having latest Bitcoin Core running in testnet and >> > starting a new BitcoinJ instance (Bisq, using latest >> > BitcoinJ release) I get download stalled at 91MB (as seen >> in >> > Bictoin Core debug window) then gets disconnected from >> > Bitcoin Core and then reconnects but gets very low >> > bandwidth. Seems Bitcoin Core added some ddos protection. I >> > never observed that in earlier versions. Does anyone know >> > how to avoid that issue? >> > >> > With mainet it seems even lower, about 7,8 MB. >> > >> > I can reproduce that with each fresh start (deleting Bisq >> > app directory so it starts as new node again). >> > >> > Br, >> > Manfred >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the >> > Google Groups "bitcoinj" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from >> > it, send an email to bitcoinj+u...@googlegroups.com. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> > Groups "bitcoinj" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> > an email to bitcoinj+u...@googlegroups.com >> > <mailto:bitcoinj+u...@googlegroups.com>. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bitcoinj" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bitcoinj+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
