That's probably why it was, rarely, a bit funky using Steemit.com in the last few days, but anyway: Great job!
488GB RAM to 61GB on-Disk is a huge improvement!
That's probably why it was, rarely, a bit funky using Steemit.com in the last few days, but anyway: Great job!
488GB RAM to 61GB on-Disk is a huge improvement!
You still need multiple servers to make up a full node, but with this change, you are able to use 64GB instances. (Minimum of 3 servers like this to make up a full node).
To mimic our setup on a smaller scale, it would be 2 x 61GB servers and 1 x 32GB for Hivemind's postgres. Not 3 x 64GB.
So does this mean I could run the 2 x 61Gb on a 128Gb HEDT machine and the 1 x 32 Gb on another machine on the same local gigabit Ethernet? Because I have this physical hardware already and would like to run a full node. I also have very fast internet.
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With a configuration like this I would run a single node that includes all of the plugins except for tags/follows in one on the machine with 128GB. The downside would be a longer replay/sync time, but it would likely be more performant than running two separate nodes on one machine (due to disk paging). Fast disk would be required, such as nVME SSD. The two machines talking over local gigabit ethernet would work just fine yes.
Thanks. Would it be better to move 64Gb to another computer and run 3 separate machines. How fast does the processor need to be on the 32Gb machine? Is recent Pentium 4560 dual core 4 thread enough for the third machine?
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I hope you did not start to sweat because of the funky responses :D
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I'm hoping the 61GB RAM is just a typo, and should be "on disk" since they mention above that the full-nodes were on-disk.
Previously it was necessary to keep all state in RAM for acceptable performance. With many of the non-consensus social features now supported in hivemind instead of needing to be directly in Steem, it is now possible to keep all state for Steem on disk. That is why the RAM requirement has been dramatically reduced.
Ah I gotcha. So -- You'd still need about 64GB RAM to run a full-node? Huge improvement, no doubt -- but it's still a bit big....
Or am I getting mixed up with the requirements of Full Nodes and Witness Nodes? Witness nodes are smaller, yeah?
No, you can use 64GB servers, not a single 64GB server.
Yes, the requirements for a witness node are much lower.
If you haven't seen our post about MIRA, you should check that out - that is a feature in development that is aimed to reduce requirements for all nodes, even the smaller consensus nodes (such as witnesses and seeds).