Can anyone give me an idea what the minimum hardware requirements are for letting monerod und P2Pool run on the same machine. The machine should only do the managing part not mining.

What are the importand specs? CPU Speed? Ram site? Storage?

Does it even work on something like an old Cubietruck etc?

Thanks for sharing your thoughts

Btw really happy finding out that the Monero Community also exists on Lemmy.

  • monerobullEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    I’ve used a Rock Pi 4 b before, worked well but the SSD connection is in a weird place (sticks out) so you might need the SSD adapter addon thing for like 20$.

      • monerobullEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Yeah, for the same money you can buy a used small form factor office PC. I recently bought two HP EliteDesk 800 G3 Minis for 90€ each and you have way more IO than on any SBC.

  • ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    I’m currently running it in a VM with 1.25GB of RAM with SSD-backed storage. This weird amount of RAM was chosen by looking at the high-water mark of memory usage, because the physical host the VM was on for a while was limited in RAM.

    Works great. Zero problems. Much of the time it doesn’t even use close to the full 1.25GB.

    Edit: you definitely want SSD-based storage for monerod in 99.9% of cases.

    Edit 2: this setup stays below 10% CPU usage in nearly all cases when given 2 virtual cores on an i5-8500T. Very low utilization.

  • gu34ffdasEEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Definitively

    Small form factor tiny PC like a Lenovo Thinkcenter M720q or similar or an EliteDesk 800 or similar. They are very cheap used, have very decent CPU, usually 8GB or 16GB or more and a SSD.

    Buying an overpriced and limited SBC instead of these is wasting money. Especially that you can upgrade them with a 4TB HDD & 2TB+ NVME drive, up to 64GB of ram. They have like 6 USB, 2 or 3 display output…

    When they do almost nothing (like synced node for example), they use like 10Watts…

    And you can mine on them too, and they are stackable :)

    • bjoerns@feddit.deOPEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I have a Intel NUC 7PJYH here which is running 24/7 for the smart home etc. maybe i will first of try if it can handle Smarthome/TVHEad/ and Monerod + P2Pool. While syncing now the CPU usage is quite high

      • gu34ffdasEEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Yeah, it’s normal, you can’t compare a NUC with a premium Tiny PC.

        NUC have budget / low end CPU (In you’re case, a Pentium Silver Jxxxx), While these tiny PC have Core i5 or Core i7. Can find model with 8th gen+ at very decent price.

        • bjoerns@feddit.deOPEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          I have found an efficient Fujitsu MoBo and a PicoPSU on the attic and now i am organising a cheap i5-6500T. Should be good for approx. 1300H/s at 30W. As an always on “placeholder” minig to the pool while the sun does not shine.

  • IP2English
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    2 years ago

    Optimally any CPU that supports AES and 4GB of RAM, on top of a small SSD drive for the blockchain (nearly 150GB ATM).