Michael Sproul

Another desirable property: checkpoint sync from a state alone, without having to load the block.

Hey @jmcruz1983 are you satisfied with the VC memory improvements? Any more issues since updating?

Awesome, I am going to close this issue as resolved! @macladson I think we're probably also safe to close https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/pull/3223, unless you think we might want to merge it anyway?

Looks like a few of the tests aren't compiling currently

Thinking on it some more I think it may be useful to keep the pre-computed sync selection proofs, because they also have the advantage of happening in the background off...

@jmcruz1983 what about the total number of signing requests? We're curious whether there are fewer signing requests with this PR, and whether the increases you were seeing previously were evenly...

Thanks for the info @jmcruz1983! How many validators are on the machine from which that graph was drawn? You mentioned previously that Lighthouse was doing a lot more signing than...

@jmcruz1983 has the memory usage remained lower even after running this PR for a few days? We haven't been able to reproduce that on our nodes and don't know why...

@jmcruz1983 Would you mind trying the VC from v2.3.1 on your test system? I'm wondering if maybe the memory reduction was due to upgrading from v2.2.1

@jmcruz1983 Thanks again! I'd like to understand if there are any other differences between the binaries besides the version. My guess is that the memory difference might be due to...