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Tomorrow, Wednesday, the Base core engineering team will increase the gas target as part of our ongoing efforts to scale Base ā¬ļø Raising the gas target helps keep fees on Base low, even during periods when activity on the network is high
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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 š šµ https://base.org/discord
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What are the trade-offs that the base team deems acceptable?
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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)
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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?
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I think it will always be possible for people to run nodes, it will just have a cost attributed to it; here are the current recommendations: https://github.com/base-org/node?tab=readme-ov-file#hardware-requirements in the long term, I don't think it will ever be an issue because technology will continue to accelerate to meet demand
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