Reduced block production timeout

[Frozen]

Reduced block production timeout. On my local machine produced 1639 block for 1664 seconds which is no more than 1.5% deviation for the ideal scenario

[mur-me]

Let's check this on the devnet as we discussed

[mur-me]

Well, what we have right now after the run in the devnet:

• it was good in the logs - all 60 blocks were produced and validated, but only in the logs.
• but in fact, external validators, especially far away geographically from the current leader was signing only 12-15% of the blocks and were kicked off from the committee.
• only shard 0 was affected, when the shard 1 nodes were good generally.

Right now I'm suspecting that there should be more investigation or/and code change for the shard 0

[mur-me]

Deployed on devnet, hardfork in 9 epochs

[mur-me]

Tested, result is the same, we still have issue on the shard 0 like previous time.

Some of geographically far away nodes are still signing less blocks than 66.6% and getting kicked from the committee:

Address	Epoch	Signed	To-sign	Percent	Status
one1tedqsp6fm47cmp7xk5m44stvz8pxjmzursl2r5	50370	1132	1774	63.81%	active
one1d95s9qrvrryfawysa9jvpxysxwazyt45zd6su3	50370	736	896	82.14%	active
one13djpgmsunxm3dzdjq6855hx905r8a86fa0wzhv	50370	2101	2688	78.16%	active
one1mgjpfcz8w7nkakwty7errmcf956yp239umnfv6	50370	738	1774	41.60%	active
one1ymyg4d0y4w8g6ythply0lkmp5dr6dvdxj5e67w	50370	507	887	57.16%	active

[GheisMohammadi]

This idea doesn't work.

With waitTime = 0, the leader freezes the bitmap as soon as 2/3 is reached. Validators whose commit messages are still in flight are recorded as missing, even if they signed prepare and sent commit on time. So they will be excluded from the next epoch committee: