Solana Advances Congestion-Alleviating Central Scheduler Feature to Testnet

Anza, a dev collective behind Solana, recommended the adoption of Agave v1.18.12 into the blockchain’s devnet and testnet. This new version of the mentioned client ships with a central scheduler that aims to reduce congestion by increasing fee collection and reducing conflicting transactions. Anza is calling for increased testing on this functionality.

Anza Calls for Central Scheduler Testing on Solana

Solana engineers are testing one of their definitive weapons to fight network congestion. Anza, a group of software developers behind the Solana client, has recommended the implementation of Agave v1.18.12 into the network’s devnet and testnet. The new version includes one of the most expected features for fixing the congestion that the blockchain has experienced for over a month.

The central scheduler, which will enable higher fee collection and fewer conflicting transactions, comes disabled by default. Nonetheless, Anza is calling on validators to enable it and examine its performance.

Anza stated:

Our internal tests are promising, but the extent of the improvement needs to be fully evaluated by validators in production.

Theoretically, adopting this central scheduler should help more transactions move through Solana, given that it makes the client a lot smarter by avoiding the lock-up of conflicting transactions. This is because the scheduler establishes the order in which transactions are assigned for processing, optimizing the network’s operation.

Limited test data provided by Anza indicates that implementing this new scheduler allows for up to 80% higher fee collection when compared to the prior scheduler. However, devs acknowledge that “until widely deployed and adopted by the network, it will be impossible to say for sure what the performance characteristics will be.”

This month, Anza has been testing and implementing different measures to alleviate the high level of failed transactions that the network was experiencing. Every 7 out of 10 non-voting transactions failed at some point, crippling the network’s operativity.

According to Dune, this has improved slightly, with 6 of every 10 non-voting transactions failing. There is no announced date for implementing these improvements in the mainnet.

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