Running a full node

Running a full node
2014-11-06 11:09 ` Thomas Zander
  2014-11-08 15:28 ` Daniel F
  
From: Francis GASCHET @ 2014-11-06  9:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: bitcoin-development

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2014-11-06  9:51 [Bitcoin-development] Running a full node Francis GASCHET

  2014-11-06 21:38   ` odinn
  2014-11-08 15:28 ` Daniel F
  
From: Thomas Zander @ 2014-11-06 11:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: bitcoin-development

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

-- 
Thomas Zander



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2014-11-06 11:09 ` Thomas Zander

  
From: odinn @ 2014-11-06 21:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: bitcoin-development

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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:
> 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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2014-11-06  9:51 [Bitcoin-development] Running a full node Francis GASCHET
  2014-11-06 11:09 ` Thomas Zander

  2014-11-08 17:44   ` Melvin Carvalho
  
From: Daniel F @ 2014-11-08 15:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: bitcoin-development, fg

> 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




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2014-11-08 15:28 ` Daniel F

  2014-11-08 21:47     ` Jameson Lopp
  
From: Melvin Carvalho @ 2014-11-08 17:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Daniel F;  Bitcoin Dev

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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
>
>
>
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2014-11-08 17:44   ` Melvin Carvalho

  
From: Jameson Lopp @ 2014-11-08 21:47 UTC ( / )
  To: bitcoin-development

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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:
> 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
>>
> 
> 
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From: Francis GASCHET @ 2014-11-09 15:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: bitcoin-list, 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
--
Francis

Le 06/11/2014 11:53, Francis GASCHET a écrit :
> Dear all,
>
> I'm currently discovering the Bitcoin's universe.
> I installedbitcoind 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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