From Shai on Discord:. Hey everyone.
27 Sep 2023, 14:54
From Shai on Discord:
Hey everyone.
As you probably have noticed, a lot of Kaspa nodes went down at once, including mining pools, wallets, block explorers etc..
This is a consequence of reaching the pruning point and having to prune out all the spam accumulated during the dust attack (in more detail: having to update the UTXO set of the pruning point with all the dusty UTXOs created huge DB pressure that some nodes could not handle), causing a lot of the nodes to hang for a long time, and the others to crash.
Things will soon come back to normal as the nodes resynic and resume operation.
The good news is that the Rust nodes on mainnet handled the large pruning like champs, and are available and ready to help any crashed node to resync quickly. Such issues will not be a problem going forward once Rust becomes the default mainnet implementation.
Node operators: if your node has crashed, restarting it might be sufficient. If you still encounter problems, please try resyncing your node by deleting the datadir and restarting.