From 899d7bc3a65da29109b3f52ec600202527a91935 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: MonsieurNicolas <nicolas@stellar.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:13:26 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] don't connect to too many peers at once

hardcoded for now at 50 peers per calls to `getPeersToConnectTo`
---
 src/overlay/OverlayManagerImpl.cpp | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/overlay/OverlayManagerImpl.cpp b/src/overlay/OverlayManagerImpl.cpp
index a5946d85c6..e25f730570 100644
--- a/src/overlay/OverlayManagerImpl.cpp
+++ b/src/overlay/OverlayManagerImpl.cpp
@@ -231,7 +231,11 @@ OverlayManagerImpl::getPreferredPeersFromConfig()
 std::vector<PeerRecord>
 OverlayManagerImpl::getPeersToConnectTo(int maxNum)
 {
-    const int batchSize = std::max(20, maxNum);
+    // don't connect to too many peers at once
+    maxNum = std::min(maxNum, 50);
+
+    // batch is how many peers to load from the database every time
+    const int batchSize = std::max(50, maxNum);
 
     std::vector<PeerRecord> peers;