Try dropping expired messages from the reprocess queue

[michaelsproul]

At the moment when a message times out in the reprocess queue, we try to process it again. For attestations this is almost certainly a waste of time, because if they were processable we would have already dequeued them when their matching head block arrived.

I want to try experimenting with just trashing attestations that timeout, rather than trying to reprocess them. This shouldn't happen a lot during normal operation, but may happen on unhealthy nodes, and during non-finality or in other periods of high load.

[Dyslex7c]

hi, would love to work on this can I get assigned?

[michaelsproul]

Hi @Dyslex7c this one is a bit tricky for a first issue so I would recommend looking for another one

I mostly opened this issue as a note to myself, I was thinking of looking into this today

[Dyslex7c]

Hi @Dyslex7c this one is a bit tricky for a first issue so I would recommend looking for another one

I mostly opened this issue as a note to myself, I was thinking of looking into this today

yea cool, no problem