{"id":49466,"date":"2021-09-15T09:44:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T06:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=49466"},"modified":"2025-09-02T12:46:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T09:46:59","slug":"solana-network-restarts-after-major-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/solana-network-restarts-after-major-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"Solana network restarts after major outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Solana validator community successfully completed the restart of the Mainnet Beta. No new blocks had been produced for more than sixteen hours.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Dapps, block explorers, and supporting systems will recover over the next several hours, at which point full functionality should be restored,&#8221; wrote the developers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Solana validator community successfully completed a restart of Mainnet Beta after an upgrade to 1.6.25. Dapps, block explorers, and supporting systems will recover over the next several hours, at which point full functionality should be restored.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Solana Status (@SolanaStatus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SolanaStatus\/status\/1438020110451609603?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 15, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The restart occurred after updating the node software to version 1.6.25.<\/p>\n<p>On September 14, around 16:00 (MSK), the Solana blockchain stopped producing blocks. Founder Anatoly Yakovenko said that resources were exhausted as a result of a spam-transaction attack.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;The Solana network faced a sharp increase in transaction load, peaking at 400,000 <span data-descr=\"transactions per second\" class=\"old_tooltip\">TPS<\/span>. These transactions overwhelmed the processing queue, and the lack of prioritization of network-critical messages led to the network starting to fork,&#8221; the developers explained.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to them, this led to excessive memory consumption, causing some nodes to go offline.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1\/ Solana Mainnet Beta encountered a large increase in transaction load which peaked at 400,000 TPS. These transactions flooded the transaction processing queue, and lack of prioritization of network-critical messaging caused the network to start forking.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Solana Status (@SolanaStatus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SolanaStatus\/status\/1437856638279487493?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 14, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Block analyst Larry Cermak suggested on the eve that Solana validators faced RAM shortages, particularly those with 128 GB or less.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The issue seems to be connected to validators running out of RAM. Especially those running 128GB<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Larry Cermak (@lawmaster) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lawmaster\/status\/1437780016448823306?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 14, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Following the outage, the SOL token price fell from around $160 at one point to $142.39 (Kraken exchange). However, as the situation developed, the coin&#8217;s price recovered to previous levels.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SOLUSD_2021-09-15_09-59-36-1024x385.png\" alt=\"\u0421\u0435\u0442\u044c Solana \u043f\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0437\u0430\u043f\u0443\u0441\u0442\u0438\u043b\u0438 \u043f\u043e\u0441\u043b\u0435 \u043c\u0430\u0441\u0448\u0442\u0430\u0431\u043d\u043e\u0433\u043e \u0441\u0431\u043e\u044f\" class=\"wp-image-149332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SOLUSD_2021-09-15_09-59-36-1024w.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SOLUSD_2021-09-15_09-59-36-300x113.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SOLUSD_2021-09-15_09-59-36-768x288.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SOLUSD_2021-09-15_09-59-36.png 1326w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Hourly chart of SOL\/USD on Kraken. Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/ru.tradingview.com\/symbols\/SOLUSD\/?exchange=KRAKEN\">TradingView<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In March 2021, a multi-hour outage in block production <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/stellar-network-suffers-outage\">occurred<\/a> on the Stellar network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Solana validator community successfully completed the restart of the Mainnet Beta. 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