Batch signature submission lasting several blocks and suboptimal

[filippos47]

Version: v0.7.0

I notice that several blocks might elapse between successful submission of sig batches. Is it due to BBN nodes preferring to include other txs in blocks / fee issue / sig batch taking too long to build?

In the below log, block time is 30s - 4 blocks elapse between 2 consecutive batch submissions.

2024-11-10T19:20:42.927192Z	info	Successful transaction	{"chain_id": "devnet-4", "gas_used": 4291916, "fees": "39228ubbn", "fee_payer": "\u001f3\ufffd\ufffdI\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdv<bs\ufffd\ufffd\u0005\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\u0018M", "height": 27038, "msg_types": ["/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs"], "tx_hash": "466C2912F20D1BA1325B66DFC668150C1ADBC7BA0EA51627BD40896F4956BA54"}
2024-11-10T19:22:51.552064Z	info	Successful transaction	{"chain_id": "devnet-4", "gas_used": 3594472, "fees": "35629ubbn", "fee_payer": "\u001f3\ufffd\ufffdI\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdv<bs\ufffd\ufffd\u0005\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\u0018M", "height": 27042, "msg_types": ["/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs", "/babylon.btcstaking.v1.MsgAddCovenantSigs"], "tx_hash": "80235B7EA5FF360EC64D77167BED89D71EDA275CA269B289727E505B323F449D"}

Another thing is that currently, the batch sig limit is configured to 100 sigs. The network has more than 1k pending delegations, so theoretically each batch submission should contain the maximum amount of sigs to catch up (100). However the covenants batch is rarely hitting 100 sigs per submission. Why is that?