Requirements

1. Pruning Settings

In order to run a full node, different hardware requirements should be met based on the pruning strategy you would like to use.

Pruning is the term used to identify the periodic action that can be taken in order to free some disk space on your full node. This is done by removing old blocks data from the disk, freeing up space.

Inside the Joltify Network, there are various types of pruning strategies that can be applied. The main ones are:

• default: the last 100 states are kept in addition to every 500th state; pruning at 10 block intervals

• nothing: all historic states will be saved, nothing will be deleted (i.e. archiving node)

• everything: all saved states will be deleted, storing only the current state; pruning at 10 block intervals (At the moment this option is not recommended as it can easily corrupt the database and the node will halt)

• custom: allow pruning options to be manually specified through 'pruning-keep-recent', 'pruning-keep-every', and 'pruning-interval'

2. Hardware Requirements

You can easily understand how using a pruning strategy of nothing will use more disk space than everything. For this reason, there are different disk space that we recommend based on the pruning strategy you choose:

Pruning strategy	Minimum disk space	Recommended disk space
everything	20GB	60GB
default	80GB	160GB
nothing	120GB	>300GB

Apart from disk space, the following requirements should be met:

Minimum CPU cores	Recommended CPU cores
4	8

Minimum RAM	Recommended RAM
8GB	16GB