When I was using the data center in question 128GB with nvme drives, I tried swap for a while to increase numbers but it slows them down noticeably.
I assume standard software with huge swap files and treacle like performance.
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Excessive swap would kill performance for sure.
I didn’t intend for my nodes to use swap at all tbh, but linux shuffles the resources over time to make space.
Given those machines have 8gb ram, 2gb swap isn’t too crazy though. Having 8gb ram and 8gb swap would probably be pretty awful. Certainly, on my boxes, linux never tries to use any more, even if CPU time is available.
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Yes not yours, the increase swap to make up for memory barriers did the rounds on discord for a while.
I guess it is widely abused and causing trouble. I turned swap off completely on all machines I run lately as I would rather they get killed than harm the network.
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my run up to 1.8k nodes on a hetzner.
AMD Ryzen 5 3600
64gb ram
2 x 500 GB SSD
Load average graph
hard drive io tmes and network usage
can see it goes all over the place but i wouldn’t know if I did not have NTracking graphing it all.
node start times were 2 min interval after i noticed the hard drive io times i droped the node count and this is with only 50% ram consumed so i was not using swap.
same machine today running 1.5k nodes pretty much idle
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question is if a machine is completely overloaded on the hard drives can its nodes still manage a quote even if they cant store or serve data ?
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maybe @Shu / @dirvine want to have a look at this and see if it is something like that might be an issue or not 
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Looks like it fell off a cliff! Thanks for sharing!
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i might even sign up to the dedicated provider tomorrow and get one of there boxes and run a test and see how many nodes i can run and what happens.
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I didn’t advertise them when I was using them because they accept crypto and I did not want them overrun 
Super convenient.
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shark hunting is fun 
pick your location and select IP address with a large weight.
here we can see 7 IP’s at same data centre lets take 66.23.203.234 for example another over 20k nodes machine
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Nothing wrong with whales, our issue is sharks 
.. but I think that is a insult to sharks 
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sorry whales if its red dot on the map it suspicious
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all I want is a network I can use … I don’t care if it’s whales, sharks or goldfish who run it …
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Wen developer net.
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when shark net i want a bowl of soup already !!!
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Thoon! 
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MANGA
Make Autonomi Network Great Again
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Looks like a whale
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Do we know if the new dev network will allow users to add nodes?
Will be interesting to see if a network without emmisions suffers main network troubles.
Or will it be entirely run by Maidsafe, @rusty.spork
Presumably we want to be able to test apps that run nodes too.
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Also will payments still be on blockchain or back to the faucet?
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