Running a full node
8 messages, 6 Nov to 4 Dec 2014. Started by Francis GASCHET.
Francis GASCHET (2), Thomas Zander, Odinn Cyberguerrilla, Daniel F, Melvin Carvalho, Jameson Lopp, Martinx - ジェームズ
Dear all,
I'm currently discovering the Bitcoin's
universe.
I installed bitcoind on my PC and I'm currently testing different
things on testnet.
I just read an article saying
that the risk for Bitcoin in the future is
the decreasing number
of full nodes, with appropriate resources. There are only few of them in France !
My company operates a dual
homed Internet access and has some capacity to host an HA
server in a secured environment. So I'm thinking about setting up a full node.
But I'd like to know what
storage, RAM and bandwidth resources are needed. I
guess that the problem is not the CPU.
Thanks in advance for
details.
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On Thursday 6. November 2014 10.51.38 Francis GASCHET wrote:
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> Dear all, > > I'm currently discovering the Bitcoin's universe. > I installed bitcoind on my PC and I'm currently testing different things > on testnet. I just read an article saying that the risk for Bitcoin in the > future is the decreasing number of full nodes, with appropriate resources. > There are only few of them in France ! > > My company operates a dual homed Internet access and has some capacity to > host an HA server in a secured environment. So I'm thinking about setting > up a full node. But I'd like to know what storage, RAM and bandwidth > resources are needed. I guess that the problem is not the CPU.
There is a stats script running on this node;
more peoples opinions; https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=760094.0
If you are considering running a full node (or think you are running one), you should read the comments here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1scd4z/im_running_a_full_node_and_so_should_you/cdw38ve
Thomas Zander wrote:
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> On Thursday 6. November 2014 10.51.38 Francis GASCHET wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> I'm currently discovering the Bitcoin's universe. I installed >> bitcoind on my PC and I'm currently testing different things on >> testnet. I just read an article saying that the risk for Bitcoin >> in the future is the decreasing number of full nodes, with >> appropriate resources. There are only few of them in France ! >> >> My company operates a dual homed Internet access and has some >> capacity to host an HA server in a secured environment. So I'm >> thinking about setting up a full node. But I'd like to know what >> storage, RAM and bandwidth resources are needed. I guess that >> the problem is not the CPU. > > There is a stats script running on this node; > > http://213.165.91.169/ > > more peoples opinions; > https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=760094.0 >
- -- http://abis.io ~ "a protocol concept to enable decentralization and expansion of a giving economy, and a new social good" https://keybase.io/odinn
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> But I'd like to know what storage, RAM and bandwidth resources are > needed. I guess that the problem is not the CPU.
Hi Francis,
Here are some rough guidelines for you, based on the statistics from my node:
disk usage: about 30GB currently for the blockchain data. It'll only keep growing from here, but relatively slowly.
cpu usage: pretty much nothing, after you have synced the blockchain.
ram usage: after it runs for a few months, my node gets up to using 1.5 GB of ram or so.
bandwidth usage: my node averages about 500GB of traffic per month, most of it outgoing.
Hope that gives you a rough idea of what you can expect for running full node.
Best, Daniel
On 8 November 2014 16:28, Daniel F <nanotube@gmail•com> wrote:
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> > But I'd like to know what storage, RAM and bandwidth resources are > > needed. I guess that the problem is not the CPU. > > Hi Francis, > > Here are some rough guidelines for you, based on the statistics from my > node: > > disk usage: about 30GB currently for the blockchain data. It'll only > keep growing from here, but relatively slowly. >
There's some statistics on this site:
https://blockchain.info/charts/blocks-size
It may be reasonable to assume 10GB growth a year. When I was running a full node I gave it a disk of 50GB.
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> > cpu usage: pretty much nothing, after you have synced the blockchain. > > ram usage: after it runs for a few months, my node gets up to using 1.5 > GB of ram or so. > > bandwidth usage: my node averages about 500GB of traffic per month, most > of it outgoing. > > Hope that gives you a rough idea of what you can expect for running full > node. > > Best, > Daniel > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge•net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development >
I host charts of my node's system metrics at http://statoshi.info/#/dashboard/db/system-metrics
Note that the CPU spikes are abnormal as I'm making automated RPC calls to query the UTXO set.
My node's bandwidth usage chart can be found at http://statoshi.info/#/dashboard/file/default.json?panelId=1&fullscreen
- - Jameson
On 11/08/2014 12:44 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
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> On 8 November 2014 16:28, Daniel F <nanotube@gmail•com> wrote: > >>> But I'd like to know what storage, RAM and bandwidth resources are >>> needed. I guess that the problem is not the CPU. >> >> Hi Francis, >> >> Here are some rough guidelines for you, based on the statistics from my >> node: >> >> disk usage: about 30GB currently for the blockchain data. It'll only >> keep growing from here, but relatively slowly. >> > > There's some statistics on this site: > > https://blockchain.info/charts/blocks-size > > It may be reasonable to assume 10GB growth a year. When I was running a > full node I gave it a disk of 50GB. > > >> >> cpu usage: pretty much nothing, after you have synced the blockchain. >> >> ram usage: after it runs for a few months, my node gets up to using 1.5 >> GB of ram or so. >> >> bandwidth usage: my node averages about 500GB of traffic per month, most >> of it outgoing. >> >> Hope that gives you a rough idea of what you can expect for running full >> node. >> >> Best, >> Daniel >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> Bitcoin-development mailing list >> Bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge•net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge•net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development >
Dear all,
+1 !
Thanks to those who sent me some details and links.
My node is up and running on 5.56.40.1:8333
Techno : Linux HA + dual homed Internet transit. It should be stable as from now.
Best regards
Bitcoind|qt needs Dual-Stack support. ;-)
Cheers! Thiago
On 9 November 2014 at 15:52, grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail•com> wrote:
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> You may also wish to consider linking your node into > the Tor, I2P, and maybe even CJDNS networks. Details > on their respective mailing lists. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > bitcoin-list mailing list > bitcoin-list@lists•sourceforge•net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-list