Alex Potsides 978eb3676f
feat: async peerstore backed by datastores (#1058)
We have a peerstore that keeps all data for all observed peers in memory with no eviction.

This is fine when you don't discover many peers but when using the DHT you encounter a significant number of peers so our peer storage grows and grows over time.

We have a persistent peer store, but it just periodically writes peers into the datastore to be read at startup, still keeping them in memory.

It also means a restart doesn't give you any temporary reprieve from the memory leak as the previously observed peer data is read into memory at startup.

This change refactors the peerstore to use a datastore by default, reading and writing peer info as it arrives.  It can be configured with a MemoryDatastore if desired.

It was necessary to change the peerstore and *book interfaces to be asynchronous since the datastore api is asynchronous.

BREAKING CHANGE: `libp2p.handle`, `libp2p.registrar.register` and the peerstore methods have become async
2022-01-20 12:03:35 +00:00

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/* eslint-disable no-console */
'use strict'
const Libp2p = require('../../')
const TCP = require('libp2p-tcp')
const Mplex = require('libp2p-mplex')
const { NOISE } = require('@chainsafe/libp2p-noise')
const KadDHT = require('libp2p-kad-dht')
const delay = require('delay')
const createNode = async () => {
const node = await Libp2p.create({
addresses: {
listen: ['/ip4/0.0.0.0/tcp/0']
},
modules: {
transport: [TCP],
streamMuxer: [Mplex],
connEncryption: [NOISE],
dht: KadDHT
},
config: {
dht: {
enabled: true
}
}
})
await node.start()
return node
}
;(async () => {
const [node1, node2, node3] = await Promise.all([
createNode(),
createNode(),
createNode()
])
await node1.peerStore.addressBook.set(node2.peerId, node2.multiaddrs)
await node2.peerStore.addressBook.set(node3.peerId, node3.multiaddrs)
await Promise.all([
node1.dial(node2.peerId),
node2.dial(node3.peerId)
])
// The DHT routing tables need a moment to populate
await delay(100)
const peer = await node1.peerRouting.findPeer(node3.peerId)
console.log('Found it, multiaddrs are:')
peer.multiaddrs.forEach((ma) => console.log(`${ma.toString()}/p2p/${peer.id.toB58String()}`))
})();