Adrian Sutton

I think it's somehow related to the fact that `--ee-endpoint` and `--builder-endpoint` come from the same arg group and the two `--validators-keystore-locking-enabled` options are in between them. I'm not sure...

The key thing is that we want to remove the logic that automatically makes a new block the chain head if it descends from the current head block (https://github.com/ConsenSys/teku/blob/c3da1c9326ffe7aa6b7d7948db9b6217a7e0e473/ethereum/statetransition/src/main/java/tech/pegasys/teku/statetransition/forkchoice/ForkChoice.java#L475-L486). >...

And yes we probably should be checking that flag in `StorageUpdate` - I've fixed it in #6202 Deposit replay is fast, but will keep getting slower as more and more...

Sorry for the delay in getting back to this. > I understand the purpose, but I made this PR assuming that it could be toggled off or on when needed...

> Also there is no sense to remove pre-snapshot deposits as we load deposits from EL, not DB, if snapshot is used. So we could remove them all when the...

We always skip randao validation so just ignore this param. Shouldn't need to do any work here as far as I'm aware.

We won't be able to capture the source ip in metrics because each ip would be a new time series in prometheus so it would get very expensive very fast....

For the record, we're actively investigating this. There are two issues on-going, one is slow responses from Besu which delays importing blocks. The other is slow leveldb performance in Teku...

> With the latest teku update the frequency has decreased but still happening once every few hours. Are you seeing "Published attestation" events for the missed attestations and are they...

@torfbolt That can be caused by quite a lot of factors. I'd suggest enabling the late block timing logs as described in https://github.com/ConsenSys/teku/releases/tag/22.9.1 so you can see why the block...