Questions tagged [block-time]
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Are there disadvantages to parachains having block times higher or lower than 6 seconds? Any examples?
In the Polkadot ecosystem, parachains typically follow a 6-second block time to synchronize with the relay chain. However:
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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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Why the block time is 6s here?
https://github.com/paritytech/cumulus/pull/2213/files#diff-04c884d6f18e6732821418360f30ce293a09a5a817672f3a5d100d82696f70d1R721
let info_provider = timestamp_with_aura_info(6000);
IIRC, the block ...
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What is the possible minimum block time?
Is there a way to determine/calculate what the minimum block time would be? If not, what could we consider before lowering the block time, and how to monitor the side effects of small block time?
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What could happen if the `BlockWeights` is set HIGHER than `MILLISECS_PER_BLOCK` (block time)?
In Substrate docs, it's said:
"The maximum block weight should be equivalent to one-third of the target block time, allocating one third for block construction, one third for network propagation, ...
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What happens when I decrease the `MILLISECS_PER_BLOCK` parameter in runtime/src/lib.rs
I need to change the MILLISECS_PER_BLOCK parameter to generate blocks more quickly.
For example I can set it to 100 so that my transaction can execute instantly.
The question is: What will happen when ...
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How to estimate the timestamp of a future block in Substrate?
I have some expiry time in block number which I need to deem some storage values expired after that block number, however in the UX I want to present this value as an estimated datetime.
So to be able ...
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