Questions tagged [block-production]
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How can we restart the chain if it becomes stuck during data migration?
I performed a runtime upgrade on the chain, but due to a migration failure, the chain stopped producing blocks. The logs only show that the migration failed.
When I attempt to restart the validators, ...
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How to add custom process without exceeding the block time?
The question can seem weird but here is the geist of it :
In a custom chain with 20 sec block time, we have a different format of header that includes more information. At the end of the block, we ...
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how to solve Networking or low-level protocol error?
I am running solochain so randomly my chain stop producing blocks and giving this error.
Every time when chain giving this error i need to stop and re-run the node.
substrate version using: v1.0.0
Can ...
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Collator starts after more than 10 hours on Azure cloud
I am migrating from AWS to Azure Cloud. I have two parachain collators running. One on AWS (yet to migrate) and another on Azure Cloud (migrated).
Whenever I restart the service on AWS, it hardly ...
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Proposals not getting processed, Consensus Issues on Rococo
Context:
A parachain in Rococo is missing more block slots than I would expect it to at fairly random times.
Version: Polkadot v0.9.42
Number of Collators: 3
Logging:
(Perhaps I am missing the correct ...
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No block produced/validated on parachain for almost a day
We upgraded our testnet Shibuya yesterday, for which we have our own validator network, and block production stalled for almost a whole day. The block on which it was stuck was the one where the ...
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Block Finalization Issue and Recovery on Ternoa's Testnet
Over the past few days, we have encountered an issue with block finalization on the Ternoa testnet. It appears that the finalization process stopped, possibly due to one of the validators being ...
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Stopped block production / aura
Error with block built on
0xxxx: ClientImport("A pending forced authority set change could not be applied since it must be applied after the pending standard change at #xx")
Block production ...
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No block are producing while running node in dev mode
Even though I set genesis staker here no block are producing. Someone please help me.
ganesholi@Ganeshs-MacBook-Air MarketplaceMVP_Substrate % ./target/release/node-template --dev
2023-07-02 08:15:58 ...
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How does primary slots and secondary vrf slots work?
I am struggling to understand some behaviour on a custom 7 validators solochain.
Currently using babe with a 1/4 primary slots probability, the block time is 20 sec, and we have ...
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Do data in events increase the size of the block?
On one hand, if we emit extrinsic event with no data and other hand we emit the extrinsic event with data.
Will the second option will increase the block size or on both cases the block-size will be ...
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How much do relaychain node hardware requirements dictate the parachain collator hardware requirements?
Cumulus ties the parachain and the relaychain together, allowing to exchange essential information necessary for the block production of the parachain. Since a parachain collator must build a block (...
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Usage of Pre-Runtime Digest to gossip data from block creator node with PoW
I'm playing around with a variation a of Substrate's PoW block production.
Contrary to existing PoW engine my design relies on a PoW generation mechanism which is external to Substrate.
The PoW ...
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how to run some logic before gossiping the block as author?
In substrate-node-template, are there any available ways to execute a task or provide a callback to be executed just before the block gets gossiped to other validators, right after it has produced the ...
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Is block creation guaranteed to be running after parent block is fully imported?
I observe an issue for a long time that I can't explain.
There is a value produced in BlockImport::import_block that must be included in inherents of n+1.
Though sometimes it seems like value is not ...
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Why do most parachains have a MAXIMUM_BLOCK_WEIGHT of 0.5 seconds? [duplicate]
From my survey of a few parachains, the definition I find for MAXIMUM_BLOCK_WEIGHT is often 0.5 seconds of compute :
/// Maximum weight per block
pub const MAXIMUM_BLOCK_WEIGHT: Weight = Weight::...
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How to fix slow parachain block time on rococo-local?
Hello valuable Substrate community,
I started two rococo-local relaychain validators and one custom parachain. The target block time of the parachain is 12 seconds, but the actual block time is 24 ...
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Substrate Node wont restart
We are running a substrate node in testing/development and the server ran out of disk space. We cleared up space by deleting the log files and now the node wont start.
Service(Client(RuntimeApiError(...
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Parachain cannot build blocks after winning a slot
We have a slight issue: we won a parachain slot on Saturday and are still waiting to produce blocks this Monday.
https://polkadot.subscan.io/block/14512138?tab=event
We should be producing blocks by ...
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Parachain missed blocks due to relay wrong announcement?
On February 20, 2023 around 22:08 UTC, Shiden block production has been hurt and almost stopped during 40 minutes.A lot of collators were missing blocks for no apparent reason.
Examples of blocks that ...
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How and where does a block production take place?
Like if I were to add some custom logic and checks to ensure only certain kind of blocks are produced by the validators or only those blocks that contain a certain size of data are produced then where ...
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Our on_initialize function takes approximately 5 seconds, this breaks the parachain eventually
We need to run an on-initialize function that runs for 5 to 6 seconds. The error we run into when we do this is "Block production took too long".
We have tried to increase the ...
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Can a parachain recover from a "block taking too long" error?
We have a parachain testnet running on a local relaychain based on rococo v2.
The Parachain is based on Cumulus (Polkadot and Substrate) v0.9.36 - so at the time of writing is the most up-to-date ...
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Are weights really neccessary?
During block authorship, the execution time of each transaction is measured, rather than weights right?
Doesn't that mean as a runtime developer, you only need weights for pricing your extrinsics, but ...
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How can I make my node generate blocks only when they receive transactions?
In substrate node template we can see that blocks are producing and finalizing if no transaction happening so how I can make my node to only generate blocks when there are transactions happening.
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Blocktime double than expected (Standalone network)
We are currently running a standalone network, with the blocktime set to 6000ms, but we are seeing fluctuating values as below
As you can see, there is no real relation between blocksizes or ...
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Split extrinsic execution across multiple blocks
Is it possible to split the execution of an extrinsic into several continuous blocks?
Looking at this post, it is possible to create migrations, but I was wondering if the same can be applied to an ...
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No new blocks with dockerized local RPC node
I want to run the substrate node locally(with docker) to use it as an RPC provider(via ws). I want to use "author.pendingExtrinsics" method as well as "chain.subscribeNewHeads" and ...
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Why Does Subscan Show Only 12M Blocks And Not Several 100M?
By my calculations Polkadot should create 1 block every 6 seconds which is confirmed by looking at https://polkadot.subscan.io/ - however it states there are only 12M blocks when there should be many ...
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Why my solo chain block time is 12 seconds when set to 6?
I have an my own Substrate node (not a parachain, based on the template-node, so Aura consensus is used) and I changed the block time to 6 seconds in the runtime/src/lib.rs by setting
pub const ...
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Collator not producing block
Changes made
In previous version things were fine. In this change, I added pallet-staking in the collator.
Here Staking is pallet_staking::{Pallet,...}
Configured pallet_staking with reference ( but ...
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Clean node template doesn't produce blocks due to "No route to host" error [closed]
Substrate node template (version polkadot-v0.9.26) could not find any peers including itself (as I understood) and does not produce any blocks. I did not add any lines of code.
Logs:
2022-08-06 16:42:...
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Increasing Block Size
a question about block limit, the amount of bytes that can be stored in each block. From what i can gather this value can be changed Here, However when i change the 5 to lets say 20 (5mb to 20mb) I ...
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What happens if a validator goes offline and it's part of the session?
I've been using the validator-set pallet to add new validators on a permissioned network, and although it solves the issue related to block production slowing down when a validator is missing, it has ...
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What prevents a primary staker from holding off staking to wait for a specific outcome they want in BABE?
One of the issues of PoS as far as I understand is the randomness that selects a staker. Ouroboros Praos, and also BABE use VRFs (Verifiable Random Functions) to assign primary and secondary leaders ...
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Certain validator nodes produce more blocks than other nodes (BABE)
At Ternoa we are observing an interesting phenomenon where a node operator consistently produces more blocks than other node operators. In this case, he has two validator nodes and both nodes produce ...
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The purpose of epochs in staking
What problem do epochs in staking solve? Why don't stakers win stakes by something as simple as generating data from history + the latest block (so that precomputing stakes is not possible), and then ...
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Rococo Status & Issues
lately Rococo has been producing blocks very slowly.
Not sure if this is the best place to ask, but where can we find more information about this? Or where to ask about this if this isn't the correct ...
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Substrate Stencil node not producing blocks
I forked the Substrate Stencil node to kickstart from Governance and Staking. I've followed the steps from both the repo and Substrate docs. I tried to run a staging node but it's idling with 4 ...
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parachain-system can not get ParachainInherentData After runtime upgrade
Before this setCode upgrade, our parachain works well.
After setCode upgrade, we get the following error log.
Jun 02 09:39:36 Parami-AWS-SFO-DANA-01 parami[490]: 2022-06-02 09:39:36 ⚠️ ParachainSystem ...
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Node Does not Produce Blocks
I've been trying to implement a PoW consensus for my node. It was based on node template, the recipe and Kulupu's implementation of PoW. So I did quite a lot of changes to the node template and thus I'...
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Single node performance
I've a couple of questions:
I'm running a the node-template on a machine that has 8 cores and 64GB of RAM and its using an SSD. I have some pallets working there and I'm using the python client to ...
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Optimistic parachain block finalization
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Is there some some way to configure a parachain to produce blocks in a way which
has high finalization rate (not PoA though)
predictable finalization rate, yielding a clear optimistic ...
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Validator node dropping peers after producing a block followed by a reorg
We are seeing some strange behaviour with some (not all) of our validator nodes. We are using the standard BABE / GRANDPA pallets.
When it is their turn to produce a block, they produce the block, but ...
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How to reject empty blocks? [duplicate]
I need to prevent empty blocks from being added to my blockchain.
This is for a very small scale chain, in which 99.99884% of blocks are empty, so not adding empty blocks will dramatically reduce the ...
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