Parity windows service and max_peers configuration

[jeffallen6767]

1st thanks for the windows installer, it made getting up-and-running with Parity a breeze!

I'm running:

• Which Parity version?: Parity/1.8.5/1.22.1/windows
• Which operating system?: Windows 10 Home
• How installed?: via installer
• Are you fully synchronized?: yes
• Which network are you connected to?: ethereum ( main chain says "Foundation" )
• Did you try to restart the node?: yes

The parity.exe service along with ptray start automatically when I boot my system and log into Windows 10. I currently use the parity service as a back-end for mining with a different application.

I'm able to use the config generator at: https://paritytech.github.io/parity-config-generator/ to generate a config.toml file which is located properly at: %UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming\Parity\Ethereum\config.toml

My configuration follows:

[rpc]
cors = "local"

[mining]
author = "" ( I can provide this if necessary )
extra_data = "some msg that works"

[network]
max_peers = 16
max_pending_peers = 16
no_serve_light = true

I'm able to configure some properties such as cors, author, and extra_data, but none of the [network] values seem to be picked-up and used, my connections as viewed in the web-client are usually 0/25/25 and I'm using quite a bit more network bandwidth than I'm comfortable with... ( I'm capped to 1024 GB / Month by my provider, and I'm using at least that much by my calculations 1/2 way into the month so far... )

Please help me limit my bandwidth usage.

Thanks,
Jeff Allen

[5chdn]

Duplicate of #7576

[5chdn]

Default min peers is 25, you need to reduce this to get less than this.