By selecting the Gossip/Election tab, we can control the behavior of the leader election. A leader peer receives blocks and distributes them to the other peers within its cluster.
The following screenshot shows all of the election-related attributes:
The gossip/election attributes of the peer node
Let's go over the election attributes that we can change on this tab:
- Membership Sample Interval: This attribute specifies the number of seconds between each time the peer checks its stability on the network.
- Leader Alive Threshold: This attribute specifies the number of seconds to elapse for other peers in the cluster to declare ...
