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Performance Analysis for Light Node

Hello, I’m a light node operator in the Celestia Blockspace Race. First, I thank Celestia for selecting me for Light Node. Here I am sharing the current status and performance of my Light node ID - 12D3KooWNgUeK9S2kDfuDaTi6JsGdMvH7TCumZCQrBafJwNvyPy6.

Hardware requirements as per Celestia for running Light Node :-

  • Memory: 2 GB RAM

  • CPU: Single Core

  • Disk: 25 GB SSD

  • Storage Bandwidth: 56 Kbps for Download/56 Kbps for Upload

Hardware (VPS ) considered for running my Light Node :-

  • Memory: 16 GB RAM

  • CPU: 6 vCPU Cores

  • Disk: 400 GB SSD

  • Storage Bandwidth: 100 Mbit/s

  • VPS Location: Dusseldorf (EU)

Now we can see our Node performance.

CPU Usage:-

As per below chart CPU usage is 2% at normal and at peak is 4%.

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Memory Usage

Average memory usage was 4GB out 16 GB at Normal and at peak 6 GB out of 16GB. 16 GB ram is enough for running light node smoothly.

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Network Traffic

Incoming traffic speed at normal 3.2 kpbs and at peak 80 kpbs.

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Disk Space used

Dis space used 6% ( 25 GB ) out of 400GB.

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df -h

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My Current Celestia version

Light node updated to version v0.9.4

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Conclusion:-

I do not face any difficulties while running Light node. Even if anything, it is solved quickly by the team. I personally thanks to mindstyle I pops.one #9025 and $ Karlo. Both are helped me a lot. I learned many things in this period. As per my Analysis Minimum 8GB Ram, Disk space - 100 SSD and Storage Bandwidth: 100 Kbps for Download/100 Kbps for Upload is required, to run light Node Smoothly.