Apropos of...

Apropos getting all chains in one place. I’ve worked out I can get mainnet, optimism, farcaster hub + replicator, zora, and base all in one machine thanks to the new 24 core i9 AI workstation chip. That plus 128gb ddr5 RAM, 8tb SATA SSD, and 500gb m2 for the OS and kvm hypervisor. Let’s see the price 😬

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You are running all those off the same nvme? That’s a lot of disk ops! 

I have noticed degraded performance just from running two execution clients on the same drive. Hope you are not validating on that machine.

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RAM shouldn’t be a problem, it’s disk ops when syncing a chain. 

Even with non-DRAMless, non-QLC nvme, my stakers suffer degradation if I run anything trying to sync to the same drive. It maxes out the disk ops.

I couldn't run the mainnet beacon plus execution nodes on the same 16GB machine as it ended up page swapping too much and then freezing.  I'm going to try them both on a 32GB to see how that goes.  No SSD speed issues.  I have op-geth and op-node running ok on an older i5 with 16gb ok.