Memory Growth & VM Cost

Staking & Delegation Setup a Stake Pool
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Hi Gang,

Over the last 6 months memory requirements have grown significantly (doubled) for relays specifically. Most recently I’ve hit a point where I require 16 GB of RAM (I think, possibly more).

Should I expect this to be a trend as transaction rates increase? Do I need to start looking at 24 and 32 GB of RAM? That big of a VM will cause me to lose a lot of money in any cloud provider for a small pool.

Relay specs: 12 GB Ram 6 CPU VM:
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Should be enough

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How about 6 months from now? I guess the point was more so around seeing a trend where the RAM requirements doubled over 6 months. As transaction rates pick up due to Cardono being awesome :smiley:, will relay load increase?

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Nope, the team will work to improve the versions

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Thanks for the input