24 hour Extension to Latency Test and Hotfix

[Keith]

The 24 hour latency test has been quite successful, bringing network latency down to roughly 1.5s.

Alex Dupre found that the 1 Hz gateway polling frequency is contributing to this latency, so we will be pushing out a hotfix today at 1:00PM PST 9/24/2020 to move the frequency to 10Hz and should bring the latency to close to 1 second.

This hotfix is not breaking and not a mandatory upgrade.

Once we benchmark the 1 second latency, we will return the network to normal before making our next testing steps where we try to determine the source of latency for various nodes.

You can find the hotfix here: https://gitlab.com/elixxir/gateway/-/merge_requests/171/diffs

And you can find the previous post about latency testing here:

24 Hour RealTime Latency Test

For the next 24 hours we will be conducting a test of Realtime Latency. In addition to the previously disabled nodes we have disabled about 1/3 of the nodes on the network which had the longest Realtime Latency. Node ID Realtime Latency 1b0MyPuqQvSI8Hr9BOQ4iyXPA/UiZFz+9EjRzkxEVi0C 2.378327946 yHRNCbasOLhxu6KMkbvyWeyGWIf33YshwKjgkY7+k6wC 2.389936872 90enmzmmEh9I5hDm+lWqw9NFso2yDJkdGA+G46EtuKoC 2.433073204 yJ6WapwfyMtMqcyNORycUctgy3Jc7OyC0n45h6njkbAC 2.43408311 N6/1Sw9w4n2DZ+mYHXU…

[redindian]

Great work! Running at almost 5k/s and only 1.5s latency. And we’re just getting started!

[snapo84]

Will nodes be remote update’d by you or should we just apply it? If some one else has this question, the test is done through auto update