From 29eb72ddba77e5d868b496639191564f5419f004 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Ward Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 14:28:15 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify block generation --- docs/_getting-started/dev-mode.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/_getting-started/dev-mode.md b/docs/_getting-started/dev-mode.md index 6f446a7e82..d16aa7c39c 100644 --- a/docs/_getting-started/dev-mode.md +++ b/docs/_getting-started/dev-mode.md @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Starting geth in dev mode does the following: - Sets the gas price to 0 - Uses the Clique PoA consensus engine with which allows blocks to be mined as-needed without excessive CPU and memory consumption - Prevents the consensus (proof of work) difficulty from ever increasing -- Permits 0 block times in the clique consensus engine and forbid empty blocks for 0 periods +- Uses on-demand block generation, producing blocks when there are transactions waiting to be mined You can specify a data directory to maintain state between runs using the `--datadir` option, otherwise databases are ephemeral and in-memory: