Consensus timeouts explained

``` # config/config.toml [consensus] ... timeout_propose = "3s" timeout_propose_delta = "500ms" timeout_prevote = "1s" timeout_prevote_delta = "500ms" timeout_precommit = "1s" timeout_precommit_delta = "500ms" timeout_commit = "1s" ``` There’s a variety of information about timeouts in https://tendermint.com/docs/tendermint-core/running-in-production.html You can also find more detailed technical explanation in the spec: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.04938 Note that in a successful round, the only timeout that we absolutely wait no matter what is `timeout_commit` . Here’s a brief summary of the timeouts: • timeout_propose = how long we wait for a proposal block before prevoting nil • timeout_propose_delta = how much timeout_propose increases with each round • timeout_prevote = how long we wait after receiving +2/3 prevotes for “anything” (ie. not a single block or nil) • timeout_prevote_delta = how much the timeout_prevote increases with each round • timeout_precommit = how long we wait after receiving +2/3 precommits for “anything” (ie. not a single block or nil) • timeout_precommit_delta = how much the timeout_precommit increases with each round •…

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