height 176 of 178 on the network. 7 peer(s) connected, 45 known; 0 block(s) followed and 0 pulled in by sync since this follower started. This follower is BEHIND AND STUCK: peers are ahead of it and every one of them has been searched for a fork point without finding one. What is below is not the whole chain and will not become it without help. Genesis 1cf8655125cc1bbb…, producers genesis.
What this follower is, locally
Following 7 seed(s) — their addresses are not published here, for the reason the peer table gives. Its store is held under its own Cerberus lease — no other node’s store is opened, touched or stopped.
Speed, as measured
Every figure on this page is counted over the newest 100 of 176 block(s) this node holds, 77 to 176. There is no peak, no best case and no projected figure anywhere on it, and no field in the data behind it that one would fit in.
Observed interval, against the nominal slot
The gap between one block and the next, differenced from the blocks’ own timestamps. Those timestamps are each the producing seat’s clock rather than a shared one, so a gap is as accurate as the two clocks either side of it.
- Gaps differenced
- 99 adjacent heights only. A hole in what this node retains is not a slow block, so a pair either side of one is never differenced
- Median
- 24 s 23,689 ms exactly
- Mean
- 5 min 297,863 ms exactly spread (standard deviation) 23 min. Where the spread is of the same order as the mean or larger, the mean is not describing a cadence
- Fastest
- 920 ms 920 ms exactly
- Slowest
- 4 h 13,333,715 ms exactly the gap that ended at height 123, so it can be looked at rather than taken on trust
- At or under the nominal slot
- 1 of 99 1% of the gaps, against a 3 s target
What the blocks carried
Every one of the 100 block(s) in this window carried at least one record: this chain sealed no empty block over it. So a gap between blocks is consistent with no record having arrived during it. 4 of them carried no transaction, but each carried STR.domain claims, which are records in their own right — so none of those is an empty block either. What a gap is not, either way, is a verdict: the absence of a block is equally consistent with no producer having been running, and nothing in a chain distinguishes the two — an operator’s own surface can see whether seats were up and a public explorer reading a chain cannot. A page that resolved this to “idle and healthy” would be guessing for the reader in the one case where guessing is worst.
What a block weighs, and what takes the room
| Block | Against the ceiling | Sealed bytes | Txs | Signatures held | Held, of ceiling |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| newest height 176 | 1,721 0.4% of the ceiling | 0 | 278 1 signature(s) | 0.5% | |
| heaviest height 175 | 7,220 1.8% of the ceiling | 11 | 4,276 15 signature(s) | 2.9% | |
| lightest height 176 | 1,721 0.4% of the ceiling | 0 | 278 1 signature(s) | 0.5% |
- header and records
- transactions
- signatures held by this node
- unused
Bytes are counted with the chain’s own canonical encoding — the same measure `produceBlock` weighs a block against this ceiling with, so these figures and that refusal are in the same units. Sealed bytes are the header, the transactions and the records; a block is sealed with no signatures on it and collects them afterwards, so the signature bytes are what THIS node has accumulated and are labelled apart.
| Signature set | Blocks | What that means |
|---|---|---|
| closed | 12 | past the collection window, holding what this node collected. A final reading of what this node has — not necessarily of what every node has |
| collecting | 8 | inside the collection window: this node may still receive more signatures for these, so their held size is a live reading rather than a final one |
A block grows after it is sealed. produceBlock weighs it against the ceiling with no signatures on it, and acceptBlock weighs what arrives — signatures included — so the two right-hand columns above are the distance between a block that was legal when it was sealed and the same block as a catching-up peer would receive it.