Michael Sproul

Here's some performance info from some of our Goerli nodes with thousands of inactive validator keys:  This is the time required for the VC to update all its validator...

Sweet! bors r+

@mariuspod Yeah that's a spurious failure. A flaky test that sometimes fails on slow hardware (we'll make it less flaky... soon).

Once the merge conflict is fixed and the dust has settled from v3.1.2, we can merge :rocket:

I think this would require some changes to the logger. We would need to add a CLI flag like `--log-colour` (alias `--log-color`) to force outputting coloured logs to the terminal....

> Any ideas on alternative flags for macOS? This page suggests `stdbuf` but it doesn't seem to work with `lighthouse` (probably because we use static linking): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3465619/how-to-make-output-of-any-shell-command-unbuffered

Resolved by #3538

AFAIK no tools exist to repair corrupt LevelDB databases. It's an unfortunate reality that a re-sync is the best option if this happens. What filesystem were you running Lighthouse on?...

This is a good idea. The HTTP client for checkpoint sync sets a timeout here: https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/blob/df51a73272489fe154bd10995c96199062b6c3f7/beacon_node/client/src/builder.rs#L276-L277 However that timeout only applies to certain requests common to the validator client. I...

> My question is that should user be asked to choose another option such as retrying or resuming default syncing? I think it's OK to just exit. Lots of users...