Base

Tomorrow, Wednesday, the Base core engineering team will increase the gas target as part of our ongoing efforts to scale Base ⬆️

Raising the gas target helps keep fees on Base low, even during periods when activity on the network is high

Core team @base • Former maintainer: bitcoin.org • Editor: Mastering Bitcoin & Mastering Ethereum • Builder, full stack developer: github.com/wbnns

For builders and almost all Base users, no changes are necessary. But if you're running a Base Node and notice any latency after the increase:

1. Monitor CPU and Disk I/O usage

2. Enhance disk throughput and use disks with lower read/write latency (NVMe SSDs recommended)

3. Improve CPU, focusing on single-core speed

You can also stop by the Node Operators channel in the Base Discord if you have any questions and we'll be happy to help you there 👍

🔵 https://base.org/discord

What are the trade-offs that the base team deems acceptable?

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Thanks! That was my understanding. With the current settings, what would you say are the hardware needs for someone to run a node?
I assume there is a practical limit to this approach. How far are we from it, even if a eventually there could be only a single node?

Heya, I can't speak for the team but IMO it makes it more resource intensive (costly) to run a Base node, because the hardware needs to be able to acommodate processing more transactions per second

I feel like this is acceptable because we're scaling up to connect everyone to a new internet (hardware required will be expensive to power it)