From a96f7d267093446ba1e008099f92f42e786f5180 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: William Banfield <4561443+williambanfield@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2022 17:50:02 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Update RELEASES.md Co-authored-by: M. J. Fromberger --- RELEASES.md | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/RELEASES.md b/RELEASES.md index 2b5f86ee5..f86146bb7 100644 --- a/RELEASES.md +++ b/RELEASES.md @@ -242,10 +242,11 @@ representative sample of stop conditions. ### Large Scale Testnets -The Tendermint end-to-end tests run Tendermint networks with a small set of nodes -numbering in the low dozens at most. Real world deployments of Tendermint often -have over a hundred nodes just in the validator set, with many others acting as full -nodes and sentry nodes. +The Tendermint end-to-end tests run a small network (~10s of nodes) to exercise +basic consensus interactions. Real world deployments of Tendermint often have over +a hundred nodes just in the validator set, with many others acting as full +nodes and sentry nodes. To gain more assurance before a release, we will also run +larger-scale test networks to shake out emergent behaviors at scale. Large-scale test networks are run on a set of Digital Ocean virtual machines (VMs). Each VM is equipped with 4 Gigabytes of RAM, 2 CPU cores, and 80 Gigabytes of NVMe