Increased b-msghand thread utilization due to runestone transactions on 2026-02-17

Node jade also runs the patch and is using the new -txsendrate=4 arg. During the mass broadcast, we see it announcing 10 transactions per second to the outbound addnode peer. -txsendrate is configuring the relay rate to inbound connections. As we relay to oubounds at 2.5x the rate, we’d expect 2.5 * 4 = 10, which exactly matches our expectation.

It’s visible that node jade takes a lot longer than the other nodes to process the annoucements.