Make Telemetry.submit() non async

We now defer all the flushing to the event loop itself, so that
the event loop just handles flushing.

ironfish/src/metrics/metricsMonitor.ts

@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ export class MetricsMonitor {
     this.memoryInterval = setInterval(() => this.refreshMemory(), this.memoryRefreshPeriodMs)
     if (this.telemetry) {
       this.memoryTelemetryInterval = setInterval(
-        () => void this.submitMemoryTelemetry(),
+        () => this.submitMemoryTelemetry(),
         this.memoryTelemetryPeriodMs,
       )
     }
@@ -95,9 +95,9 @@ export class MetricsMonitor {
     this.rss.value = memoryUsage.rss
   }
 
-  private async submitMemoryTelemetry(): Promise<void> {
+  private submitMemoryTelemetry(): void {
     if (this.telemetry) {
-      await this.telemetry.submitMemoryUsage(this.heapUsed.value, this.heapTotal.value)
+      this.telemetry.submitMemoryUsage(this.heapUsed.value, this.heapTotal.value)
     }
   }
 }

ironfish/src/mining/director.ts

@@ -501,7 +501,7 @@ export class MiningDirector {
 
     this.onNewBlock.emit(block)
 
-    await this.telemetry.submitBlockMined(block)
+    this.telemetry.submitBlockMined(block)
 
     return MINED_RESULT.SUCCESS
   }

ironfish/src/node.ts

@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ export class IronfishNode {
       await this.rpc.start()
     }
 
-    await this.telemetry.submitNodeStarted()
+    this.telemetry.submitNodeStarted()
   }
 
   async waitForShutdown(): Promise<void> {

ironfish/src/telemetry/telemetry.test.ts

@@ -54,42 +54,29 @@ describe('Telemetry', () => {
 
   describe('submit', () => {
     describe('when disabled', () => {
-      it('does nothing', async () => {
+      it('does nothing', () => {
         const disabledTelemetry = mockTelemetry(false)
         const currentPoints = disabledTelemetry['points']
-        await disabledTelemetry.submit(mockMetric)
+        disabledTelemetry.submit(mockMetric)
         expect(disabledTelemetry['points']).toEqual(currentPoints)
       })
     })
 
     describe('when submitting a metric without fields', () => {
-      it('throws an error', async () => {
+      it('throws an error', () => {
         const metric: Metric = {
           measurement: 'node',
           name: 'memory',
           fields: [],
         }
-        await expect(telemetry.submit(metric)).rejects.toThrowError()
-      })
-    })
-
-    describe('when the queue max size has been reached', () => {
-      it('flushes the queue', async () => {
-        const flush = jest.spyOn(telemetry, 'flush')
-        const points = []
-        for (let i = 0; i < telemetry['MAX_QUEUE_SIZE']; i++) {
-          points.push(mockMetric)
-        }
-        telemetry['points'] = points
 
-        await telemetry.submit(mockMetric)
-        expect(flush).toHaveBeenCalled()
+        expect(() => telemetry.submit(metric)).toThrowError()
       })
     })
 
-    it('stores the metric', async () => {
+    it('stores the metric', () => {
       const currentPointsLength = telemetry['points'].length
-      await telemetry.submit(mockMetric)
+      telemetry.submit(mockMetric)
 
       const points = telemetry['points']
       expect(points).toHaveLength(currentPointsLength + 1)
@@ -119,7 +106,7 @@ describe('Telemetry', () => {
 
     it('submits telemetry to the pool', async () => {
       const submitTelemetry = jest.spyOn(telemetry['pool'], 'submitTelemetry')
-      await telemetry.submit(mockMetric)
+      telemetry.submit(mockMetric)
       await telemetry.flush()
 
       expect(submitTelemetry).toHaveBeenCalled()

ironfish/src/telemetry/telemetry.ts

@@ -33,13 +33,13 @@ export class Telemetry {
 
   start(): void {
     if (this.enabled) {
-      this.flushInterval = setInterval(() => void this.flush(), this.FLUSH_INTERVAL)
+      void this.flushLoop()
     }
   }
 
   async stop(): Promise<void> {
     if (this.enabled) {
-      await this.submitNodeStopped()
+      this.submitNodeStopped()
       await this.flush()
     }
 
@@ -48,7 +48,15 @@ export class Telemetry {
     }
   }
 
-  async submit(metric: Metric): Promise<void> {
+  async flushLoop(): Promise<void> {
+    await this.flush()
+
+    this.flushInterval = setTimeout(() => {
+      void this.flushLoop()
+    }, this.FLUSH_INTERVAL)
+  }
+
+  submit(metric: Metric): void {
     if (!this.enabled) {
       return
     }
@@ -67,16 +75,16 @@ export class Telemetry {
       timestamp: metric.timestamp || new Date(),
       tags,
     })
-
-    if (this.points.length >= this.MAX_QUEUE_SIZE) {
-      await this.flush()
-    }
   }
 
   async flush(): Promise<void> {
     const points = this.points
     this.points = []
 
+    if (points.length === 0) {
+      return
+    }
+
     try {
       await this.pool.submitTelemetry(points)
       this.logger.debug(`Submitted ${points.length} telemetry points`)
@@ -90,24 +98,24 @@ export class Telemetry {
     }
   }
 
-  async submitNodeStarted(): Promise<void> {
-    await this.submit({
+  submitNodeStarted(): void {
+    this.submit({
       measurement: 'node',
       name: 'started',
       fields: [{ name: 'online', type: 'boolean', value: true }],
     })
   }
 
-  async submitNodeStopped(): Promise<void> {
-    await this.submit({
+  submitNodeStopped(): void {
+    this.submit({
       measurement: 'node',
       name: 'started',
       fields: [{ name: 'online', type: 'boolean', value: false }],
     })
   }
 
-  async submitBlockMined(block: Block): Promise<void> {
-    await this.submit({
+  submitBlockMined(block: Block): void {
+    this.submit({
       measurement: 'node',
       name: 'block_mined',
       fields: [
@@ -125,8 +133,8 @@ export class Telemetry {
     })
   }
 
-  async submitMemoryUsage(heapUsed: number, heapTotal: number): Promise<void> {
-    await this.submit({
+  submitMemoryUsage(heapUsed: number, heapTotal: number): void {
+    this.submit({
       measurement: 'node',
       name: 'memory',
       fields: [