Ethereum private blockchain empty blocks mining

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I have set up a private block chain with 2 nodes 1 being a miner node . However we are seeing lots of empty blocks being mined . i tried the solution suggested at this link https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/3151/how-to-make-miner-to-mine-only-when-there-are-pending-transactions . But still the empty blocks are mined . Can someone help ?

OS used - Windows 10 Ethereum version - 1.7.3 stable

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Empty blocks are added by miners in order to avoid double spending. It mainly avoids miner from doing POW for a already mined transaction. Only when the miner finds the transaction that was mined before, he will avoid adding empty blocks, else he adds them.