A full z_listsentbyaddress holds the daemon's cs_main for the whole sweep --
~140 s on a large wallet on a daemon without the sent-history decrypt cache --
which starves block connection and makes every other RPC (getinfo, balances)
wait, so the node looks "busy". This runs the full sweep in depth bands so no
single call holds the lock for long.
- The full case now covers [0, tip] in bands: z_listsentbyaddress(z, minconf=a,
filter-2, maxDepth=b) returns exactly depth [a, b]. Newest band first (its
minconf=0 includes the mempool); results dedupe by txid across the overlap.
- Each band is a separate call, so cs_main is held only ~5 s at a time and the
node stays responsive between bands (block connection isn't starved, the busy
canary answers). Total CPU is unchanged -- just not in one long lock.
- sentSweepNextBandSize adapts the next band toward ~5 s: grows up to 4x in
sparse depth (empty regions covered fast), shrinks to 1/2x in dense depth.
- W advances only after every band succeeds; a mid-sweep failure re-sweeps
rather than marking a partial result. The windowed sweep is unchanged.
- Each band also fits the 120 s timeout on its own, so the seed completes even
on a daemon where the single whole-wallet call used to time out.
This removes the ~2.5 min hang on the first-run seed, the weekly safety-net
re-sweep, and any invalidation. Multi-band + band-sizing covered by tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
DanSandClaude Opus 4.8
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