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A performance issue was discovered when devnet-3 was under non-finality - some of the lighthouse nodes are "stuck" with syncing because of handling proposer duties HTTP requests.
These validator requests are higher priority than Status processing, and if they are taking a long time to process, the node won't be able to progress. What's worse is - under long period of non finality, the proposer duties calculation function tries to do state advance for a large number of [slots](d545ddcbc7/beacon_node/beacon_chain/src/beacon_proposer_cache.rs (L183)) here, causing the node to spend all its CPU time on a task that doesn't really help, e.g. the computed duties aren't useful if the node is 20000 slots behind.
To solve this issue, we use the `not_while_syncing` filter to prevent serving these requests, until the node is synced. This should allow the node to focus on sync under non-finality situations.
Lighthouse: Ethereum consensus client
An open-source Ethereum consensus client, written in Rust and maintained by Sigma Prime.
Overview
Lighthouse is:
- Ready for use on Ethereum consensus mainnet.
- Fully open-source, licensed under Apache 2.0.
- Security-focused. Fuzzing techniques have been continuously applied and several external security reviews have been performed.
- Built in Rust, a modern language providing unique safety guarantees and excellent performance (comparable to C++).
- Funded by various organisations, including Sigma Prime, the Ethereum Foundation, Consensys, the Decentralization Foundation and private individuals.
- Actively involved in the specification and security analysis of the Ethereum proof-of-stake consensus specification.
Staking Deposit Contract
The Lighthouse team acknowledges
0x00000000219ab540356cBB839Cbe05303d7705Fa
as the canonical staking deposit contract address.
Documentation
The Lighthouse Book contains information for users and developers.
The Lighthouse team maintains a blog at https://blog.sigmaprime.io/tag/lighthouse which contains periodic progress updates, roadmap insights and interesting findings.
Branches
Lighthouse maintains two permanent branches:
stable: Always points to the latest stable release.- This is ideal for most users.
unstable: Used for development, contains the latest PRs.- Developers should base their PRs on this branch.
Contributing
Lighthouse welcomes contributors.
If you are looking to contribute, please head to the Contributing section of the Lighthouse book.
Contact
The best place for discussion is the Lighthouse Discord server.
Sign up to the Lighthouse Development Updates mailing list for email notifications about releases, network status and other important information.
Encrypt sensitive messages using our PGP key.
Donations
Lighthouse is an open-source project and a public good. Funding public goods is hard and we're grateful for the donations we receive from the community via:
- Gitcoin Grants.
- Ethereum address:
0x25c4a76E7d118705e7Ea2e9b7d8C59930d8aCD3b(donation.sigmaprime.eth).