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Clarify definition of "network health." #4729

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Clarify definition of "network health." #4729

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Clarify definition of "network health."
mtrippled Sep 25, 2023
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Review fixes.
mtrippled Sep 28, 2023
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Further clarify document.
mtrippled Oct 13, 2023
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Remove unnecessary sentence.
mtrippled Oct 13, 2023
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Review fix, remove isolated sentence.
mtrippled Oct 23, 2023
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Expand Up @@ -190,9 +190,21 @@ lower) fee to get into the same position as a reference transaction.

### Consensus Health

For consensus to be considered healthy, the consensus process must take
less than 5 seconds. This time limit was chosen based on observed past
behavior of the network. Note that this is not necessarily the time between
For consensus to be considered healthy, the peers on the network
should largely remain in sync with one another. It is particularly
important for the validators to remain in sync, because that is required
for participation in consensus. However, the network tolerates some
validators being out of sync. Fundamentally, network health is a
function of validators reaching consensus on sets of recently submitted
transactions.
Another factor to consider is
the duration of the consensus process itself. This generally takes
under 5 seconds on the main network. This is based on historical
observations. However, some factors, such as transactions volumes,
can increase consensus duration. This is because rippled performs
more work as transaction volume increases. Under sufficient load this
tends to increase consensus duration.
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Would add "time" here "Under sufficient load this time tends to ...", because we refer to "the time" in the sentence below which is now pushed far from the reference to consensus duration time.

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Duration is more precise, though "time" as used here means duration among other things. So duration is more appropriate here and I changed other instances of "time" to reflect that.

Note that this is not necessarily the duration between
ledger closings, as consensus usually starts some amount of time after
a ledger opens.
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Should this sentence be moved up ? It seems disconnected here.

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I just removed the sentence entirely. It's not a useful detail here.


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