Steemd config.ini settings to reduce memory usage of full node

biophil (66) in steem-help • 7 years ago

I'm running a full node for my voting application and it's using a truly hideous amount of memory. Can this be reduced?

I have the full node only so I can look up account history (curation rewards, transfers, etc) for a handful of accounts. There are two lines in config.ini that I'm particularly interested in:

track-account-range =

and

account-stats-tracked-account = []

What do those do, how do they work, has anybody changed them from their default settings? They feel like they're the solution to my problem.

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7 years ago by biophil (66)

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jesta (71) · 7 years ago (edited)

Yep, it sure can.

track-account-range = ["jesta","biophil"]

I believe this sets the node to only track these two accounts history. I'm not sure of the exact details, but I have a node running with these settings:

shared-file-dir = /dev/shm/
shared-file-size = 20G
public-api = database_api login_api account_by_key_api network_broadcast_api
enable-plugin = witness account_history account_by_key
track-account-range = ["jesta"]

and the node is only consuming ~16gb of ram/space (instead of like 50+).

I'm not sure what account-stats-tracked-account does. ~~Might have to go look that up.~~

Edit - Went and searched the code base for account-stats-tracked-account, couldn't find anything about it. Maybe it's a legacy thing that got removed?