Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko mentioned there are plans to enhance the community’s reliability.
Solana Community February 25 skilled a significant outage that resulted in practically 20 hours of downtime. It was the primary service outage this 12 months. Nevertheless, in 2022 there have been 11 main outages and three minor ones, reinforcing the community’s repute for poor reliability.
Yakovenko mentioned final week’s outage was associated to the 1.14 community replace, which was meant to enhance velocity and scale.
“Previous to model 1.14, core engineers labored to resolve speedy points that affected community velocity and value. These points included insufficient gasoline accounting, lack of circulation management for transactions, lack of tax markets, spiral cylinder, storage and restart.
Nevertheless, the discharge of the 1.14 replace brought about important community degradation, the reason for which is presently unknown. An investigation to find out the foundation trigger remains to be ongoing.
Solana centered on community stability
Addressing the problem will give attention to bettering the software program replace course of. This may require exterior builders and auditors to search for bugs and exploits.
Different adjustments embrace creating an adversary workforce to “construct extra hooks and gadgets into the validation code” for extra complete testing. Easier and extra environment friendly community startup procedures are additionally being sought.
“Nodes ought to routinely uncover the newest optimistically confirmed socket and share the ledger with one another whether it is lacking.”
Yakovenko mentioned that over the previous 12 months, Solana has already labored to enhance community stability via numerous initiatives, together with the event of a second verification consumer, higher instruments, upgrading the community communication protocol to QUIC and bettering the RPC infrastructure.
