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Recommended server specs for recksplorer #26

Closed xelawafs closed 6 years ago

xelawafs commented 6 years ago

What are the recommended server specs for recksplorer? While operating recksplorer on a node, I noticed it consumes significantly more resources than both lnd and btcd combined, especially CPU.

It would be great to know what allocation anyone setting up should consider

chemicstry commented 6 years ago

It takes a lot of CPU resources to layout graph, but once it finishes, it should drop to zero. On i7-4770 it takes about a minute to do that. If your CPU is slow, it may not keep up with update interval, which is set by the updateInterval parameter. On each update whole layout is recalculated.

xelawafs commented 6 years ago

This keeps iterating for me:

Fetching graph data from lightning daemon...
Successfully fetched 2016 nodes and 6742 edges
Calculating graph layout...
Layout: 0%
Layout: 60%
Layout: 10%
Layout: 70%
Layout: 20%
Layout: 80%
Layout: 30%
Layout: 90%
Layout: 40%
Updated graph data
Layout: 50%
Fetching graph data from lightning daemon...
Successfully fetched 2016 nodes and 6742 edges
Calculating graph layout...
Layout: 0%
Layout: 10%
Layout: 60%
Layout: 20%
Layout: 70%
Layout: 30%
Layout: 80%
Layout: 40%
Layout: 90%
Layout: 50%
Updated graph data
Fetching graph data from lightning daemon...
Successfully fetched 2016 nodes and 6742 edges
Calculating graph layout...
chemicstry commented 6 years ago

Yes, this is the exact behaviour I described. Increase updateInterval setting so that layout is calculated before next update.