Solana developers warn of possible transaction-processing errors

On January 6, Solana developers reported a drop in the beta mainnet’s performance and warned users about possible errors in transaction processing.

2/ Developers across the ecosystem are working to address these issues and improve network resiliency.

Real-time stats are available at https://t.co/dATU5wdrp6 and https://t.co/sARPdE1Foi

— Solana Status (@SolanaStatus) January 6, 2022

The problem was explained as an increase in “high-throughput compute operations”. According to the developers, this caused the network’s throughput to fall to “a few thousand” transactions per second (TPS).

The project team stressed that, in collaboration with ecosystem participants, they are working to fix the situation and boost the network’s resilience.

According to Solana Beach, at the time of writing the blockchain’s throughput stood at about 1,500 TPS. The service is also recording a large number of failed transactions.

The Solana Explorer records even larger declines in transaction-processing speed — down to 650 TPS. The network’s maximum throughput with 600 nodes and 1000 validators exceeds 60 000 TPS.

Earlier on January 4, the Solana network was unavailable for about five hours. Journalist Colin Wu linked the problem to a DDoS-атакой, but the project’s founder Anatoly Yakovenko disputed this information.

👋, sorry that’s not at all what happened. There was some congestion due to mis metered transitions, and some users experienced their txs timing out and had to retry.

— anat◎ly 🦀🤿🏒 🤙 (@aeyakovenko) January 5, 2022

«К сожалению, это не совсем то, что произошло. Была некоторая перегрузка из-за неправильного учета транзакций. Некоторые пользователи столкнулись с тем, что срок обработки их транзакций истек, и были вынуждены повторить попытку», — написал он.

In a separate thread, Yakovenko called the problem “the pain of commercialising the new runtime”.

it’s not a ddos, just pain of getting a new runtime commercialized.

$ solana ping

— transaction statistics —
8 transactions submitted, 8 transactions confirmed, 0.0% transaction loss
confirmation min/mean/max/stddev = 2119/3934/9387/2415 ms

— anat◎ly 🦀🤿🏒 🤙 (@aeyakovenko) January 4, 2022

On December 9, 2021, the Solana-based NFT platform Blockasset, distributing the native token, reported a DDoS attack on the blockchain. It subsequently deleted the tweet, and the Solana Foundation did not comment on the information.

Earlier in September, the project’s on-chain activity stopped. New blocks were not produced for more than 16 hours, a restart was required to resume blockchain operation. The developers attributed the incident to a DDoS attack.

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