Minimum block creation rate

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Is there any aproximate practical or architectural floor to the block creation rate ?

Having read “1.4.7 No Empty Blocks” at https://media.readthedocs.org/pdf/tendermint/v0.21.0/tendermint.pdf

And https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/issues/1909

It apears it is possible to set a ceiling. Eg,

create_empty_blocks = true; create_empty_interval = 10s

Says create an empty block every 10s if nothing has changed. Is there an reason to assume (roughly) at least some number of seconds will elapse between blocks ?

Thanks

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Found it: https://tendermint.com/docs/tendermint-core/configuration.html#options blocktime_iota

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Is there any aproximate practical or architectural floor to the block creation rate ?

If you set skip_timeout_commit = true, then it will be in the order of ms.

create_empty_blocks = true; create_empty_interval = 10s

When configured like this, empty blocks will be created every ~1s. create_empty_interval only works when create_empty_blocks = false.