Node catchup seems to be rolling back blocks continuously

Question

HI

I blew away one of my multichain nodes and then re-created it my peering it with a node running in the cloud.  I've been watching it and two things look strange:

1) It is gradually increasing the number of blocks that are in the syncing node, but it is continously rolling back blocks and then re-adding them.....it's like taking three steps forward followed by two back......would you exepct this......feels like there is an issue and the sync is now taking a very long time!

2) The syncing node seems to be mining....it has permissions to mine but my assumption is that it won't request the mempool until it catches up the existing mined blocks, which it hasn't done so.....so how could it be mining??

 

Cheers

Marty

Answer 1

I'm guessing these are two sides of the same problem - it's building branches then rolling them back because it's doing mining. We're aware of a related issue and we should be able to resolve them together.

In the meantime as a workaround please issue the pause mining command while it's catching up, then resume mining once it's finished.