Glutton Parachains

[joepetrowski]

The Vision

Create a parachain that will (with configuration) consume up to an entire PoV in every dimension. This parachain should be used on testnets like Versi and then on Kusama for real world stress testing. Since Gluttons simulate parachains under full load, a network operating under N Gluttons at 100% should provide reasonable guarantees about a similar network's quality of service. For example, Kusama with 100 Gluttons should give confidence that Polkadot, with 75 parachains, will not have any performance degradation due to transaction traffic on those parachains.

The Plan

• Make a Glutton pallet Glutton pallet substrate#12833
• Configure in runtime Glutton Parachain cumulus#2294
• Script for generating many chain specs Glutton script chain spec generator cumulus#2638

Related

• Genesis Companion for substrate#14188 (Add genesis config to Glutton pallet) cumulus#2612
• Sudo Add correct Sign Extensions to Glutton parachain cumulus#2656

The Future

Core development is finished. There may be some ongoing maintenance, but it's ready for deployment as requested by Parachains Core team.