From 4762c0405f29c0921f2994628559579d0b64c3fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Sproul Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 17:25:00 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] Try `BeaconState`s --- book/src/advanced_database.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/book/src/advanced_database.md b/book/src/advanced_database.md index c275d0ed96f..b558279730e 100644 --- a/book/src/advanced_database.md +++ b/book/src/advanced_database.md @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ more detail below). The full states upon which blocks are replayed are referred to as _snapshots_ in the case of the freezer DB, and _epoch boundary states_ in the case of the hot DB. -The frequency at which the hot database stores full `BeaconState` is fixed to one-state-per-epoch +The frequency at which the hot database stores full `BeaconState`s is fixed to one-state-per-epoch in order to keep loads of recent states performant. For the freezer DB, the frequency is configurable via the `--hierarchy-exponents` CLI flag, which is the topic of the next section.