refactor(core-p2p): increase network timeouts

packages/core-p2p/src/defaults.ts

@@ -14,9 +14,14 @@ export const defaults = {
      */
     minimumNetworkReach: 20,
     /**
-     * The timeout for requests to other peers
+     * The timeout to verify a peer. [milliseconds]
      */
-    globalTimeout: 5000,
+    verifyTimeout: 60000,
+    /**
+     * The timeout to download a batch of blocks (400). Notice that we start
+     * 25 concurrent such downloads, so the network may be saturated. [milliseconds]
+     */
+    getBlocksTimeout: 600000,
     /**
      * The maximum number of peers we will broadcast data to
      */

packages/core-p2p/src/network-monitor.ts

@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ export class NetworkMonitor implements P2P.INetworkMonitor {
         let max = peers.length;
 
         let unresponsivePeers = 0;
-        const pingDelay = fast ? 1500 : app.resolveOptions("p2p").globalTimeout;
+        const pingDelay = fast ? 1500 : app.resolveOptions("p2p").verifyTimeout;
 
         if (peerCount) {
             peers = shuffle(peers).slice(0, peerCount);

packages/core-p2p/src/peer-communicator.ts

@@ -140,9 +140,8 @@ export class PeerCommunicator implements P2P.IPeerCommunicator {
         {
             fromBlockHeight,
             blockLimit,
-            timeoutMsec,
             headersOnly,
-        }: { fromBlockHeight: number; blockLimit?: number; timeoutMsec?: number; headersOnly?: boolean },
+        }: { fromBlockHeight: number; blockLimit?: number; headersOnly?: boolean },
     ): Promise<Interfaces.IBlockData[]> {
         const peerBlocks = await this.emit(
             peer,
@@ -156,7 +155,7 @@ export class PeerCommunicator implements P2P.IPeerCommunicator {
                     "Content-Type": "application/json",
                 },
             },
-            timeoutMsec || 10000,
+            app.resolveOptions("p2p").getBlocksTimeout,
         );
 
         if (!peerBlocks) {

packages/core-p2p/src/peer-connector.ts

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import { app } from "@arkecosystem/core-container";
 import { P2P } from "@arkecosystem/core-interfaces";
 import { create, SCClientSocket } from "socketcluster-client";
 import { PeerRepository } from "./peer-repository";
@@ -21,9 +22,14 @@ export class PeerConnector implements P2P.IPeerConnector {
             return connection;
         }
 
+        // https://socketcluster.io/#!/docs/api-socketcluster-client
         connection = create({
             port: peer.port,
             hostname: peer.ip,
+            ackTimeout: Math.max(
+                app.resolveOptions("p2p").getBlocksTimeout,
+                app.resolveOptions("p2p").verifyTimeout
+            ),
         });
 
         this.connections.set(peer.ip, connection);

packages/core-p2p/src/peer-processor.ts

@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ export class PeerProcessor implements P2P.IPeerProcessor {
         try {
             this.storage.setPendingPeer(peer);
 
-            await this.communicator.ping(newPeer, 3000);
+            await this.communicator.ping(newPeer, app.resolveOptions("p2p").verifyTimeout);
 
             this.storage.setPeer(newPeer);
 

packages/core-p2p/src/socket-server/index.ts

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ export const startSocketServer = async (service: P2P.IPeerService, config: Recor
     // when testing we also need to get socket files from dist folder
     const relativeSocketPath = process.env.CORE_ENV === "test" ? "/../../dist/socket-server" : "";
 
+    // https://socketcluster.io/#!/docs/api-socketcluster
     const server: SocketCluster = new SocketCluster({
         ...{
             appName: "core-p2p",
@@ -21,6 +22,12 @@ export const startSocketServer = async (service: P2P.IPeerService, config: Recor
             workerController: __dirname + `${relativeSocketPath}/worker.js`,
             workers: 2,
             wsEngine: "ws",
+            // See https://github.com/SocketCluster/socketcluster/issues/506 about
+            // details on how pingTimeout works.
+            pingTimeout: Math.max(
+                app.resolveOptions("p2p").getBlocksTimeout,
+                app.resolveOptions("p2p").verifyTimeout,
+            ),
         },
         ...config.server,
     });