Merge #10133: Clean up calculations of pcoinsTip memory usage

1b55e07 Make threshold for flushing more conservative. (Alex Morcos)
f33afd3 Lower default memory footprint slightly (Alex Morcos)
5b95a19 Make pcoinsTip memory calculations consistent (Alex Morcos)

Tree-SHA512: d0061138596cf89008397b8729d9b25293938b1ad454cc99a6fe2f6210e94f76dfa78a8f0fce4c1ba3efec4e742a9c1a3ab26676a4a8346d3e7c3055d032669b

2 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/src/txdb.h b/src/txdb.h
index 7f5cf2b58..d9214ba61 100644
--- a/src/txdb.h
+++ b/src/txdb.h
@@ -21,8 +21,14 @@ class CBlockIndex;
 class CCoinsViewDBCursor;
 class uint256;
 
+//! Compensate for extra memory peak (x1.5-x1.9) at flush time.
+static constexpr int DB_PEAK_USAGE_FACTOR = 2;
+//! No need to periodic flush if at least this much space still available.
+static constexpr int MAX_BLOCK_COINSDB_USAGE = 200 * DB_PEAK_USAGE_FACTOR;
+//! Always periodic flush if less than this much space still available.
+static constexpr int MIN_BLOCK_COINSDB_USAGE = 50 * DB_PEAK_USAGE_FACTOR;
 //! -dbcache default (MiB)
-static const int64_t nDefaultDbCache = 300;
+static const int64_t nDefaultDbCache = 450;
 //! max. -dbcache (MiB)
 static const int64_t nMaxDbCache = sizeof(void*) > 4 ? 16384 : 1024;
 //! min. -dbcache (MiB)
diff --git a/src/validation.cpp b/src/validation.cpp
index 7eae5fd80..1f5b31744 100644
--- a/src/validation.cpp
+++ b/src/validation.cpp
@@ -2006,10 +2006,11 @@ bool static FlushStateToDisk(CValidationState &state, FlushStateMode mode, int n
         nLastSetChain = nNow;
     }
     int64_t nMempoolSizeMax = GetArg("-maxmempool", DEFAULT_MAX_MEMPOOL_SIZE) * 1000000;
-    int64_t cacheSize = pcoinsTip->DynamicMemoryUsage() * 2; // Compensate for extra memory peak (x1.5-x1.9) at flush time.
+    int64_t cacheSize = pcoinsTip->DynamicMemoryUsage() * DB_PEAK_USAGE_FACTOR;
     int64_t nTotalSpace = nCoinCacheUsage + std::max<int64_t>(nMempoolSizeMax - nMempoolUsage, 0);
-    // The cache is large and we're within 10% and 100 MiB of the limit, but we have time now (not in the middle of a block processing).
-    bool fCacheLarge = mode == FLUSH_STATE_PERIODIC && cacheSize > std::max((9 * nTotalSpace) / 10, nTotalSpace - 100 * 1024 * 1024);
+    // The cache is large and we're within 10% and 200 MiB or 50% and 50MiB of the limit, but we have time now (not in the middle of a block processing).
+    bool fCacheLarge = mode == FLUSH_STATE_PERIODIC && cacheSize > std::min(std::max(nTotalSpace / 2, nTotalSpace - MIN_BLOCK_COINSDB_USAGE * 1024 * 1024),
+                                                                            std::max((9 * nTotalSpace) / 10, nTotalSpace - MAX_BLOCK_COINSDB_USAGE * 1024 * 1024));
     // The cache is over the limit, we have to write now.
     bool fCacheCritical = mode == FLUSH_STATE_IF_NEEDED && cacheSize > nTotalSpace;
     // It's been a while since we wrote the block index to disk. Do this frequently, so we don't need to redownload after a crash.