Summary

As touched on in the experimental section of #381, we should further explore the consequences of creating large blocks during consensus.

Details

With our recent switch to propagating blocks using the standard tendermint block gossiping mechanism #423, we should perform some experiments to give us a better idea of the limitations of increasing the amount of block data included in each block proposed during consensus.

Action Items

• create experiment to spin up a devnet using the dummyapp
• observe the affect of increasing the amount of block data on time to consensus
• (bonus) observe the affect of altering the size of the messages gossiped using the PartSetHeader

References

tracking issue #384
more discussion on potentially different mechanisms of block propagation during consensus #434 #423
introduction of the dummyapp #384

blocked by #436