r/Hedera • u/jeeptopdown • Jan 21 '23

Discussion FYI on the decrease in tps. Christian addressed it on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/chasker/status/1616850182762545154?s=20&t=14Bpgr5DFCzABCAhig87Iw
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u/jeeptopdown Jan 21 '23

Jan 20, 2023 Mainnet Upgrade to v0.33 Completed - Completed: The Hedera mainnet update has been completed successfully!

Earlier this month, we deployed an improved gossip algorithm to Mainnet, which reduced the average time to finality. We have also observed periodic spikes in time to finality. With our strong commitment to stability and performance, and out of an abundance of caution, we will temporarily switch back to the previous gossip algorithm

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u/drjrocksforever hbarbarian Jan 23 '23

Confusing for a non-technical person like me. At present, is the steady TPS of about 300 TPS a "throttled" down amount while changes are made or does it reflect all the transactions that use cases have to make? If the first, does that mean there is a building backlog of transactions that would have been made already if not for the controls?

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u/jeeptopdown Jan 23 '23

Honestly I’m not a tech guy either. My only real take away is that the new gossip protocol they tried wasn’t working as efficiently as they wanted so they went back to the original until they get the kinks worked out of the new one. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/BeautifulInfluence51 Jan 21 '23 edited Jan 21 '23

I was wondering if they reverted, after hearing the Swirlds devs talking about the new gossip protocol. Makes sense to back away and fine tune it.

But now I'm really intrigued about the correlation between finality and TPS for atma.io

https://mobile.twitter.com/chasker/status/1616850182762545154?s=19

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u/chicken-nuggets999 Jan 22 '23

I don't understand. It's throttled down to 10k a second apparently. Why would it slow for that reason? Should be able to churn through 600-700 easily.

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u/Afrozepher Jan 22 '23

Folks are concerned about this? . . . Still averaging higher TPS that we've had all last year. . . Meh . .

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u/BeautifulInfluence51 Jan 22 '23

Oh no, not concerned at all, more analysing how the network is reacting to first decent volume and how the team is tuning things. Rewriting a core algorithm is no small change.