Solving the Cardano node huge memory usage - done

[weebl2000]

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)

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#t:SecurityParam

You can change this by setting SnapshotInterval in node configuration.