Use real number of cores, ignore virtual cores
Cherry-picked from the following upstream PRs:
- bitcoin/bitcoin#6361
- bitcoin/bitcoin#6370
Part of #2074.
Benchmark for calling ConnectBlock on a block with many inputs
Requires placing `block-107134.tar.gz` (containing the block, and a fake CoinsDB containing its inputs) into the base directory of the repository.
To facilitate generation of the fake CoinsDB, an additional field `valuesZat` has been added to `getrawtransaction` containing the integer number of zatoshis instead of a decimal number of ZEC.
Closes#2355.
Requires placing block-107134.tar.gz (containing the block, and a fake CoinsDB
containing its inputs) into the base directory of the repository. This can be
generated using qa/zcash/create_benchmark_archive.py (see the script for usage
details).
To facilitate generation of the fake CoinsDB, an additional field 'valueZat' has
been added to 'getrawtransaction' containing the integer number of zatoshis
instead of a decimal number of ZEC.
Closes#2355.
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/14999 is tracking an encoding
bug with the Tor control protocol, where many of the QuotedString instances that
Tor outputs are in fact CStrings, but it is not documented which ones are which.
https://spec.torproject.org/control-spec section 2.1.1 provides a future-proofed
rule for handing QuotedStrings, which this commit implements.
Change help text examples to use Zcash addresses
Closes#1804 and #2109
Ensures command line help text addresses are Zcash addresses.
Didn't change the text strings that say bitcoin or btc, leaving that for #2150 to close
Did I get all the addresses?
No longer relevant after #5957. This hack existed because of another
hack where the numthreads parameter, on regtest, doubled as how many
blocks to generate.
To determine the default for `-par`, the number of script verification
threads, use [boost::thread::physical_concurrency()](http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_58_0/doc/html/thread/thread_management.html#thread.thread_management.thread.physical_concurrency)
which counts only physical cores, not virtual cores.
Virtual cores are roughly a set of cached registers to avoid context
switches while threading, they cannot actually perform work, so spawning
a verification thread for them could even reduce efficiency and will put
undue load on the system.
Should fix issue #6358, as well as some other reported system overload
issues, especially on Intel processors.
The function was only introduced in boost 1.56, so provide a utility
function `GetNumCores` to fall back for older Boost versions.
Add message directing users to security guide
Addresses #2142, which was blocking on updates to zcash/support/security.html. That page has now been added, so this message directing users to the site can be included.
It displays in the zcash-cli --help and --version message text, and on the zcashd metrics screen.
