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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.