Producer Plugin
Description
The producer_plugin loads functionality required for a node to produce blocks.
info
Additional configuration is required to produce blocks. Please read Configuring Block Producing Node.
Usage
# config.ini
plugin = eosio::producer_plugin [options]
# nodeos startup params
nodeos ... -- plugin eosio::producer_plugin [options]
Options
These can be specified from both the nodeos command-line or the config.ini file:
Config Options for eosio::producer_plugin:
-e [ --enable-stale-production ] Enable block production, even if the
chain is stale.
-x [ --pause-on-startup ] Start this node in a state where
production is paused
--max-transaction-time arg (=30) Limits the maximum time (in
milliseconds) that is allowed a pushed
transaction's code to execute before
being considered invalid
--max-irreversible-block-age arg (=-1)
Limits the maximum age (in seconds) of
the DPOS Irreversible Block for a chain
this node will produce blocks on (use
negative value to indicate unlimited)
-p [ --producer-name ] arg ID of producer controlled by this node
(e.g. inita; may specify multiple
times)
--private-key arg (DEPRECATED - Use signature-provider
instead) Tuple of [public key, WIF
private key] (may specify multiple
times)
--signature-provider arg (=EOS6MRyAjQq8ud7hVNYcfnVPJqcVpscN5So8BhtHuGYqET5GDW5CV=KEY:5KQwrPbwdL6PhXujxW37FSSQZ1JiwsST4cqQzDeyXtP79zkvFD3)
Key=Value pairs in the form
<public-key>=<provider-spec>
Where:
<public-key> is a string form of
a vaild Antelope public
key
<provider-spec> is a string in the
form <provider-type>
:<data>
<provider-type> is KEY, or KEOSD
KEY:<data> is a string form of
a valid Antelope
private key which
maps to the provided
public key
KEOSD:<data> is the URL where
keosd is available
and the approptiate
wallet(s) are
unlocked
--keosd-provider-timeout arg (=5) Limits the maximum time (in
milliseconds) that is allowed for
sending blocks to a keosd provider for
signing
--greylist-account arg account that can not access to extended
CPU/NET virtual resources
--greylist-limit arg (=1000) Limit (between 1 and 1000) on the
multiple that CPU/NET virtual resources
can extend during low usage (only
enforced subjectively; use 1000 to not
enforce any limit)
--produce-time-offset-us arg (=0) Offset of non last block producing time
in microseconds. Valid range 0 ..
-block_time_interval.
--last-block-time-offset-us arg (=-200000)
Offset of last block producing time in
microseconds. Valid range 0 ..
-block_time_interval.
--cpu-effort-percent arg (=80) Percentage of cpu block production time
used to produce block. Whole number
percentages, e.g. 80 for 80%
--last-block-cpu-effort-percent arg (=80)
Percentage of cpu block production time
used to produce last block. Whole
number percentages, e.g. 80 for 80%
--max-block-cpu-usage-threshold-us arg (=5000)
Threshold of CPU block production to
consider block full; when within
threshold of max-block-cpu-usage block
can be produced immediately
--max-block-net-usage-threshold-bytes arg (=1024)
Threshold of NET block production to
consider block full; when within
threshold of max-block-net-usage block
can be produced immediately
--max-scheduled-transaction-time-per-block-ms arg (=100)
Maximum wall-clock time, in
milliseconds, spent retiring scheduled
transactions in any block before
returning to normal transaction
processing.
--subjective-cpu-leeway-us arg (=31000)
Time in microseconds allowed for a
transaction that starts with
insufficient CPU quota to complete and
cover its CPU usage.
--subjective-account-max-failures arg (=3)
Sets the maximum amount of failures
that are allowed for a given account
per block.
Disregarded for accounts that have been
whitelisted by disabling subjective
billing for the account using the
disable-subjective-account-billing
configuration option.
--subjective-account-decay-time-minutes arg (=1440)
Sets the time to return full subjective
cpu for accounts
--incoming-defer-ratio arg (=1) ratio between incoming transactions and
deferred transactions when both are
queued for execution
--incoming-transaction-queue-size-mb arg (=1024)
Maximum size (in MiB) of the incoming
transaction queue. Exceeding this value
will subjectively drop transaction with
resource exhaustion.
--disable-api-persisted-trx Disable the re-apply of API
transactions.
--disable-subjective-billing arg (=1) Disable subjective CPU billing for
API/P2P transactions
--disable-subjective-account-billing arg
Account which is excluded from
subjective CPU billing
Account is considered whitelisted and
will not be subject to enforcement of
subjective-account-max-failures.
--disable-subjective-p2p-billing arg (=1)
Disable subjective CPU billing for P2P
transactions
--disable-subjective-api-billing arg (=1)
Disable subjective CPU billing for API
transactions
--producer-threads arg (=2) Number of worker threads in producer
thread pool
--snapshots-dir arg (="snapshots") the location of the snapshots directory
(absolute path or relative to
application data dir)
Dependencies
The priority of transaction
You can give one of the transaction types priority over another when the producer plugin has a queue of transactions pending.
The option below sets the ratio between the incoming transaction and the deferred transaction:
--incoming-defer-ratio arg (=1)
By default value of 1, the producer plugin processes one incoming transaction per deferred transaction. When arg sets to 10, the producer plugin processes 10 incoming transactions per deferred transaction.
If the arg is set to a sufficiently large number, the plugin always processes the incoming transaction first until the queue of the incoming transactions is empty. Respectively, if the arg is 0, the producer plugin processes the deferred transactions queue first.
Load Dependency Examples
# config.ini
plugin = eosio::chain_plugin [operations] [options]
# command-line
nodeos ... --plugin eosio::chain_plugin [operations] [options]
For details about how blocks are produced please read the following block producing explainer.