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RE: Hive API Node for under $750 - Hive can scale at very low cost.

in #witness • 4 years ago

Raspberry Pi's IO poor, especially to SD card.
Did Blurt ditch the Steem blockchain history?
The Hive blockchain is 330Gb - not something that a rPI can handle.
If Blurt is successful it will end up with a very large chain too.

What code changes did Blurt make to be able to run a node on an rPI?

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    Raspberry Pi's are atrocious at SD IO, the Pi 4 made a big improvement, but it is still bad, especially if you don't use a Samsung EVO+ (the best performing SD card by a long shot on a Raspberry Pi).

    But anything serious I'd highly recommend just using an SSD drive, you can get one for about $30 and be 100x faster.

    Some tests I did. Using something other than a Samsung EVO+ would have been much worse.

    Maximum performance out of the Raspberry Pi 4 with an SSD drive

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    I'm planning to run the jussi for my API node on a Raspberry Pi 4 with 4Gb RAM and SD card.

    Is this sufficient in your view or should I add a SSD on USB?

    I have both the cable and SSD drive but understood jussi just used RAM for cache and didn't really do IO.

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      It will mostly be cpu/ram so I don't see a huge difference /w SD vs SSD outside of management time (and reliability on power outages as SD corrupt easier).

      You can get a 250G SSD and cable for around $40.

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