Noob question: how do I submit a Base txn with >100M gas? Wanna test something.

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I noticed that if I use 30M gas doing ecrecover in foundry, the time needed to process it is about 0.8s on a relatively fast CPU.

Thus, I wonder what will happen if I could submit a txn that burns 100M gas with ecrecover on Base, which has a block time of 2 seconds.

Write a contract with al giant for loop that deploys contracts or write to storage. Writing to storage is probably a little healthier for the chain

You can't. Max gas per block is limited to 30M at the moment.

Dumb answer (not sure this would work)

Write a simple contract that increments over a variable range and accepts the upper bound as an input 

Pass in increasingly larger amounts until you hit the block gas limit

Any luck? Seems like there’s some kind of non-gas metering thing (per tx gas limit?) which makes sense bc otherwise someone could spend $50 to max out gas and massively pump the next block’s base fee.

Which, shouldn’t base fee change intra block to prevent this??