Disable warp sync snapshotting by default

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Disable warp sync snapshotting by default #11814

Closed vorot93 closed 4 years ago

vorot93 commented 4 years ago

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Warp sync snapshotting takes quite a lot of RAM. This may make OpenEthereum unusable on many otherwise fine configurations. More than that, snapshotting by laymen may be unnecessary because:

For public networks we maintain perfectly capable warp-sync-ready bootnodes.
For private networks it makes more sense to simply backup the database and restore the chain database to the nodes verbatim.

vorot93 commented 4 years ago

Oddly enough, you cannot specify flags to default to true. I've made a new --enable-snapshotting flag instead. This is a breaking change for those who used the old --no-periodic-snapshots flag.