Sahil Sen
December 16, 2020
Note: You can use a mounted drive, but may suffer strange performance issues such as dropped blocks or slow syncing.
Storage requirement keeps on increasing everyday as the blockchain increases, the most expensive storage requirement at the time when this guide was written is to run a n archive node with Fat DB enabled which is more than 4TB.
brew tap ethereum/ethereum
brew install ethereum
brew install ethereum --devel
geth --help.
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ethereum/ethereum
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ethereum
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ethereum-unstable
geth --help.
$ docker pull ethereum/client-go:latest
$ docker run ethereum/client-go:latest
Note: if you are running an Ethereum client inside a docker container, you might want to mount in a data volume as the client’s data directory (located at /root/.ethereum inside the container) to ensure that downloaded data is preserved between restarts and/or container life-cycles.
geth --rpcapi eth,web3,debug,txpool,net,shh,db,admin,debug --rpc --ws --wsapi eth,web3,debug,txpool,net,shh,db,admin,debug --wsorigins localhost --gcmode full --rpcport=8547
$ geth --help
$ geth --http
--mine
--ws
--txpool.locals value
--txpool.journal "" # Disk journal for local transaction to survive node restarts (default: "transactions.rlp")
--cache 2048 # Megabytes of memory allocated to internal caching (default: 1024)
--unlock value
--ipcdisable
--syncmode value
--metrics
--txpool.accountslots 32 # Minimum number of executable transaction slots guaranteed per account (default: 16)
--txpool.globalslots 8192 # Maximum number of executable transaction slots for all accounts (default: 4096)
--txpool.accountqueue 128 # Maximum number of non-executable transaction slots permitted per account (default: 64)
--txpool.globalqueue 2048 # Maximum number of non-executable transaction slots for all accounts (default: 1024)
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