When BN clock is out of sync, VC sets BN status to `BrokenClock`. It is
only reset to `Offline` after restoring time sync. However, if VC fails
encounters an error while checking time, Nimbus extensions are assumed
to be unavailable and the BN is no longer checked for having a synced
clock. This means it is never reset back to `Offline` if errors start
occurring _after_ BN is already set to `BrokenClock`. This could be
because BN is changed from Nimbus to an alternative implementation,
or due to intermittent connection issues.
Ensure that BN status is reset back to `Offline` when Nimbus extensions
are disabled to ensure eventual connection recovery.
This PR brings down the time to send 100 attestations from ~1s to
~100ms, making it feasible to run 10k validators on a single node (which
regularly send 300 attestations / slot).
This is done by batching the slashing protection database write in a
single transaction thus avoiding a slow fsync for every signature -
effects will be more pronounced on slow drives.
The benefit applies both to beacon and client validators.
* Initial commit.
* Fix issues and tests.
* Fix test compilation issue.
* Update AllTests.
* Change the most poor score name from <lowest> to <bad>.
Split sync committee message score in range, so lexicographic scores will not intersect with normal one.
Lexicographic scores should be below to normal scores.
* Address review comments.
Fix aggregated attestation scoring to use MAX_VALIDATORS_PER_COMMITTEE.
Fix sync committee contributions to use SYNC_SUBCOMMITTEE_SIZE.
Add getUniqueVotes test vectors.
* Post-rebase fixes.
* Address review comments.
* Return back score calculation based on actual bits length.
* AllTests modification.
* Add slashing database pruning to VC.
Fix GetBlockHeaderResponse object declaration (spec has been changed).
* Switch to getFinalizedBlockHeader instead.
* Fix proper sign.
Add statements.
Show pruning log statement only when pruning happens.
* Optimize and remove debugging helpers.
For symmetry with `forkyState` when using `withState`, and to avoid
problems with shadowing of `blck` when using `withBlck` in `template`,
also rename the injected `blck` to `forkyBlck`.
- https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/22698
Currently we always request duties for current and next sync period.
As sync periods are quite long (~27 hrs on Mainnet), having access to
the duties so early doesn't help too much. To avoid running into errors
when the BN does not have the duties available around period boundary,
delay requesting them until the current period is close to finish.
`SYNC_COMMITTEE_SUBNET_COUNT` epochs are what the spec says should be
the lookahead timing of starting to subscribe to sync committee gossip.
Reusing the constant here for consistency.
This fixes these warning messages in the first slot of a new period.
```
rocketpool_validator | WRN 2023-09-07 20:19:35.439+00:00 Beacon node has incompatible configuration reason="Epoch value is far from the future;400;getSyncCommitteeDuties(first);invalid-request" node=http://eth2:5052[Nimbus/v23.8.0-872b19-stateofus] node_index=0 node_roles=AGBSDT
rocketpool_validator | WRN 2023-09-07 20:19:35.440+00:00 Unable to get sync committee duties period=889 epoch=227584 reason="Epoch value is far from the future;400;getSyncCommitteeDuties(first);invalid-request" service=duties_service
rocketpool_validator | NOT 2023-09-07 20:19:35.441+00:00 Beacon node is in sync head_slot=7274495 sync_distance=1 is_optimistic=false node=http://eth2:5052[Nimbus/v23.8.0-872b19-stateofus] node_index=0 node_roles=AGBSDT
```
* Make VC able to understand any type of `/eth/v1/config/spec` response without any changes in source code.
Update compatibility checking.
Now VC is able to obtain any constant from `spec` call.
* Remove RestSpecVC declaration.
* Initial commit.
* Add algorithm in comment.
Remove delays.
Fix logging statement issues.
Change update from epoch to slot.
* Obtain timestamp earlier.
* Add processing delays into algorithm.
* Fix time offset logging to produce integers instead of strings.
* Address review comments.
* Fix copyright year.
Fix updateStatus().
* Remove fields from Slot start log statement.
Fix issues when BN do not support Nimbus Extensions.
Rename metric name and type change.
* Add beacon role to disable time offset check manually.
* ensure sync duties for next epoch are registered in time
For attestations, VC queries duties for current and next epoch.
For sync messages, VC queries for current and next period (if soon).
This means that for sync messages we don't actually have the duties for
next epoch in all situations, leading to situation where VC may miss
sync duties in the final slot of an epoch when using. As duties remain
same within a sync committee period, simply copy them over to next epoch
to avoid this situation without adding network latency.
* Update beacon_chain/validator_client/duties_service.nim
Co-authored-by: Jacek Sieka <jacek@status.im>
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Co-authored-by: Jacek Sieka <jacek@status.im>
VC currently misses sync committee duties for first slot of most epochs
because the 1 slot offset is not taken into account. Duties for the next
slot must be used during any given current slot. We use the correct slot
for processing the duty, but do not use the correct slot for fetching.
* Refactor api.nim to provide more informative failure reasons.
Distinct between unexpected data and unexpected code.
Deprecate Option[T] usage.
* Fix 400 for produceBlindedBlock().
Get proper string conversion for strategy.
* Fix SSZ encoded versions of ProduceBlockResponseV2, ProduceBlockResponseV2 can be received and decoded.
Fix done() warnings.
Bump presto.
* Fix compilation error with new presto.
Use TcpNoDelay option for Web3Signer.
* Fix produceBlockV2() should provide SSZ responses too.
* Address block encoding issue.
* Fix signing test.
* Bump presto.
* Address review comments.
* Initial commit with both methods enabled: `poll` and `event`.
* Address review comments.
* Address review comments.
Fix copyright years.
* After bump fixes.
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