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stewardship get is super slow

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
go
Domain
performance

Research direction

Start in pkg/steward/steward.go at the callback around line 84, where chunks are downloaded one at a time. Trace how the stewardship endpoint supplies and uses that callback, then check the relevant tests before changing it. Done means leaf chunks can be downloaded concurrently and the stewardship check still handles the results correctly.

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Description

now that the stewardship endpoint also checks leaf chunks, the download speed is super slow because the callback function here https://github.com/ethersphere/bee/blob/master/pkg/steward/steward.go#L84 downloads chunks one at a time.

ideally, the callback to download the chunks can be done in parallel with many goroutines to speed up the process

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