I currently have my core node’s valency set to 2 and my relay also set to 2.
Is there any advantage to have more connections open to a relay - and if so, what is the limit?
Will the core node run better if I increase valency to 4 or 10 for example? I can experiment with it but I thought I’d ask here first before messing around with it.
Basically is the higher the number better or doesn’t it matter?
Hi Will,
Valency is used to define how many nodes are behind a subdomain listing in a topology.
When referencing a node by ip, valency always defaults to one. Your core node, when referenced within your relay topology, will utilize an ip which and should have a valency of one - as any other number will be ignored when an ip is used.
When referencing your relays from within your core node topology, the valency should be 1 if they are being referenced individually by ip. If you are using a subdomain to reference your relays (multiple DNS A records for each relay IP all having the same subdomain name), you will specify a valency equal to the number of relay ip addresses tied to that subdomain
Take the ADAfrog relays for example:
{
“friendly_name”: “ADAfrog”,
“addr”: “tadpole.adafrog.io”,
“port”: 3728,
“valency”: 4
}
A valency of 4 implies there are x4 separate relay nodes / ip addresses tied to the subdomain tadpole.adafrog.io