I'm really curious how this project will develop!
I've not been following you for very long. Is there any way I can get a birds eye view of what your goals are aside from performance fixes?
is this for your div project or for a better-steem kind of project?
will you address things such as premining stakes and wealth-distribution, selfvoting etc?
The full RPC witness nodes run with 32GB RAM and uses an SSD RAID array for swap according to @gtg. Is that the magic sauce you were after! ;)
Doesn't seem like a great idea to use SSD like that, but I don't know enough about the MTTF for drives these days - maybe it's not too bad. Also I read about 'NVM Express interface', which make this more reasonable, and since most of the access is reading and not writing, perhaps this is scalable to a greater degree than we thought, you can get 2TB SSD drives now.
Seemingly the reliability is a problem with this approach though, perhaps as the memory is expected to be faster than SSD speeds?
He said 3 drives and RAID 1, but not sure whether he mean just 2 for the RAID, or 3.
To be absolutely fair, I haven't seen evidence of him lying directly, but there does seem a tendency to obscure the details somewhat ;)
It's not cheap to get remote facilities like these is it? I won't be attempting it on a standard VPS any time soon!
Yeah, maybe. I thought Bulgaria wasn't too bad, but maybe it varies a lot. What do you think the minimum practical bandwidth is? I can't seem to find that anywhere.
I'd guess somewhere around 20mbit.
this sounds absolutely awesome!
but won't it be a bitch to reprocess the chain deducting all the effects of all votes and everything after the premine SP has been purged?!
I don't understand enough about this stuff, so probably you won't have to bother and answer that.
just sayin, kudos, that's a bold plan!