Pool nodes spike CPU every 72 minutes: normal? common? correctable?

[weebl2000]

Yes, check out this thread:

Solving the Cardano node huge memory usage - done

I’m not sure about the 12 hours, never heard that before. But the 72 mins is accurate. Apart from that a snapshot is taken at least every 50,000 blocks. 4320 seconds is actually the security parameter times two. (k=2160) [image] https://input-output-hk.github.io/ouroboros-network/ouroboros-consensus/src/Ouroboros.Consensus.Storage.LedgerDB.DiskPolicy.html#defaultDiskPolicy https://input-output-hk.github.io/ouroboros-network/ouroboros-consensus/Ouroboros-Consensus-Config-SecurityParam.html#…