The unprecedented Solana outage experienced earlier this month got tongues wagging as it seemed to derail the growth recorded by the protocol thus far. The Solana Outage lasted for 5 hours as several engineers worked on finding the root cause of the problem and perhaps solving it permanently.
Solana Labs has now released its root cause analysis detailing what went wrong in fulfillment of its transparency policy to the community.
The Solana Outage Root Cause Uncovered
Contrary to some opinion that suggests the Solana Outage might have been caused by a hack, in reality, the halt in block production came as a result of the “deploy-evict-request cycle of a legacy loader program triggered an infinite recompile loop in the JIT cache.”
As explained, the transactions on Solana follow an ordered pattern that was not followed before the outage, an event that resulted in the duplication of accounting information and cost additional recompile data. This got compounded as more transactions w
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