feat: lower ENR_OFFER_LIMIT from 4 to 2 #1597
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What was wrong?
It takes 1,200 days to gossip a state snapshot
How was it fixed?
By lowering
ENR_OFFER_LIMIT
it would drop our time to gossip a state snapshot from 1,200 days to 600 days.The trade offs of this approach is
I would say this solution makes sense due to
Neighborhood gossip
https://github.com/ethereum/portal-network-specs/blob/master/portal-wire-protocol.md#neighborhood-gossip so since we now have a higher likely hood of gossiping the data that nodes that do want it, we can rely onNeighborhood gossip
to do the rest of the work.I choose 2 instead of 1 to still be somewhat conservative, it might make sense to do 1 because it would heavily lower our costs, but I think it is good to still have some redundancy