# Gavin Andresen
# 2011-03-03 21:03:30
# https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4098.msg59196#msg59196

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 @p{brk}
500MB per connection times 100 connections would be 50 GB.  That re-opens the door to a memory exhaustion denial-of-service attack, which is the problem -maxsendbuffer fixes. @p{par}

As transaction volume grows I think there will be lots of things that need optimization/fixing.  One simple fix would be to request fewer blocks as they get bigger, to stay inside the sendbuffer limit... @p{par}

(ps: I've been re-downloading the current block chain connected to a -maxsendbuffer=10000 0.3.20 node, and the workaround works)