Solana Outages Again After a Year: Review the Historical Outage Records
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By GaryMa On February 6, the Solana network experienced another outage, the last time being around February 25, 2023. According to matthew sigel, head of digital asset research at VanEck, the Solana outage was due to a failure of the BPF (Berkley Packet Filter) loader, which is the mechanism for deploying, upgrading and executing programs on Solana. This may have something to do with a previous SMID proposal that added an interceptor to block the use of metadata in BPF because it was no longer needed. This came from the 0093 upgrade, but there was some kind of bug inside, which was found on the test network and a fix was created, but not yet implemented. It is assumed that someone manually triggered the error, causing Solana to go down.
Solana Outages Again After a Year: Review the Historical Outage Records
Solana Outages Again After a Year: Review the…
Solana Outages Again After a Year: Review the Historical Outage Records
By GaryMa On February 6, the Solana network experienced another outage, the last time being around February 25, 2023. According to matthew sigel, head of digital asset research at VanEck, the Solana outage was due to a failure of the BPF (Berkley Packet Filter) loader, which is the mechanism for deploying, upgrading and executing programs on Solana. This may have something to do with a previous SMID proposal that added an interceptor to block the use of metadata in BPF because it was no longer needed. This came from the 0093 upgrade, but there was some kind of bug inside, which was found on the test network and a fix was created, but not yet implemented. It is assumed that someone manually triggered the error, causing Solana to go down.