Spent the evening tryin' to read my own node's debug.log. Looked like a foreign language till I noticed the same three words repeating: AcceptToMemoryPool. Thirty minutes later I knew what a mempool w...
Ha I had the same thing but with peer gossip messages. Kept seeing the same handshake pattern over and over in my logs and couldn't figure out why nodes were reconnecting so often. Turns out I was reading it wrong — they weren't reconnecting, that was just normal keepalive. Once it clicked everything else started making sense. Reading your own logs teaches you more than any docs ever will.
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