- It is recommended to add swap to ensure (1) stable running of the zend daemon (and Side Chain Applications for Super Nodes) (2) challenge times that meet the criteria (Secure Node: 300 seconds, Super Node:150 seconds)
- It is generally good practice to allocate as much swap as your configuration has physical RAM
| Description | Command | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Check your current memory and swap space configuration and availability NOTE: Under the "total" column, you will see the total system memory allocation needed to configure the swap for step 2 | free -h Get a list of swapfile names and paths for your system sudo swapon -s Turn off and remove the swap file if one already exists (change /swapfile as necessary to the path and name of your swapfile) sudo swapoff /swapfile sudo rm /swapfile |
| 2 | Allocate the swapfile, changing the command as necessary NOTE: A Secure Node with 2GB RAM, will need to add a 2GB swap file NOTE: A Super Node with 8GB RAM, may add a 8GB swap file (change 2G on the right to 8G) | Don't enter this entry without first changing the value as instructed in the description column sudo fallocate -l 2G /swapfile |
| 3 | Set permissions on the swapfile | sudo chmod 600 /swapfile |
| 4 | Format the file as swap space | sudo mkswap /swapfile |
| 5 | Activate swap | sudo swapon /swapfile |
| 6 | Validate swap is activated using this command, the output should return a row for 'Swap:' as shown in the example output; with the value in the 'total column matching the allocated amount of swap from step 1 | free -h This is an example of a system with 2GB of RAM, 2GB of swap was set in step 2 Example Output zenops@node01:~$ free -h |
| 7 | Edit the /etc/sysctl.conf file to specify the 'swappiness' behaviour of your node Edit the /etc/fstab file, specifying that swap should be mounted at boot | echo "vm.swappiness=10" | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf echo "/swapfile none swap sw 0 0" | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab |
| 8 | Activate the updated configuration (without rebooting) | sudo sysctl -p |
| 9 | Test that your node is capable of running challenges in the required time, the "runningtime" value returned (example output) is required to be fewer than 200 seconds (Secure Node) or 100 seconds (Super Node) Check your node's block height, compare with: https://explorer.zensystem.io/ NOTE: If your node is still downloading the blockchain, it is very likely that this benchmark will fail, with much higher times than expected NOTE: You can skip this step for the sake of being efficient and continue on with parts 4 to 6 and return here to benchmark | While the blockchain is downloading and indexing, it will use extra CPU cycles (see notes). Check the current block height zen-cli getblockcount It is normal to not get an output right away, it may take a few minutes zen-cli zcbenchmark createjoinsplit 1 Example Output zenops@node01:~$ zen-cli zcbenchmark createjoinsplit 1 |