Validator operators of Solana, a proof-of-stake blockchain, efficiently accomplished a cluster restart at about 11 p.m. ET on Saturday following a roughly seven-hour outage when the community failed to succeed in consensus, it stated on Twitter.
An earlier Twitter publish had stated that “Solana Mainnet Beta misplaced consensus after an infinite quantity of inbound transactions (4m per second) flooded the community, surpassing 100gbps.”
Lastly, late Saturday night time, one of many validators coordinating by the Solana discord despatched a Google doc of directions that enabled the operators to restart the cluster at slot 131973970.
Engineers had been nonetheless investigating why the community was unable to get well from the crush of transactions that brought on the outage, the Twitter publish stated.
Final September, Solana went offline after it was overwhelmed by a whole lot of hundreds of transactions per second and remained down for 17 hours.
