The trend has been, for users to adapt to the requirement of the applications running on their computers, not the other way around.
In my student days, I worked in a Computer shop... The sales people normally asked the same questions :
1. What applications will you be running? { Office or Gaming }
When they answer "Office use" they quoted less memory AND when the person was into "Gaming" they quoted more memory.
This should not be a determining factor, to base your decision on... If someone wants to host a node, they should increase the memory.
Topic: "That is a very good reason to oppose increasing the max block size" G.Andresen - page 2. (Read 1629 times)
May 09, 2015, 12:40:13 AM
May 08, 2015, 09:31:27 PM
And it is highly likely that future PCs will stuck at 32-64GB memory for 10+ years (Main stream PCs have been mostly capped at 8GB for almost 5 years due to extra memory does not buy you any extra performance), while UTXO database should have grown to over 1TB if it doubles every year
Then 99% of the machine in the world (unless top class business cloud servers) are not able to run a full node if the UTXO database would be put into memory
In fact, besides UHD gaming and heavy graphics processing, any application that can utilize more than 8GB of RAM would require exponentially R&D resources and time to develop, it is unlikely future applications will take significant more memory than they are today
Then 99% of the machine in the world (unless top class business cloud servers) are not able to run a full node if the UTXO database would be put into memory
In fact, besides UHD gaming and heavy graphics processing, any application that can utilize more than 8GB of RAM would require exponentially R&D resources and time to develop, it is unlikely future applications will take significant more memory than they are today
May 08, 2015, 04:32:00 PM
For all those interested in proposed increase of the max block size, here's today's entry from Gavin's blog:
http://gavinandresen.ninja/utxo-uhoh
UTXO uh-oh…
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As a bonus:
M. Karpeless on the proposed changes:
https://twitter.com/MagicalTux/status/596622731711352832?s=09
http://gavinandresen.ninja/utxo-uhoh
UTXO uh-oh…
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I’m adding entries to my list of objections to raising the maximum block size as I run across them in discussions on reddit, in IRC, etc.
This is the technical objection that I’m most worried about:
More transactions means more memory for the UTXO database
I wasn’t worried about it yesterday, because I hadn’t looked at the trends. I am worried about it today.
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This is the technical objection that I’m most worried about:
More transactions means more memory for the UTXO database
I wasn’t worried about it yesterday, because I hadn’t looked at the trends. I am worried about it today.
...
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As a bonus:
M. Karpeless on the proposed changes:
https://twitter.com/MagicalTux/status/596622731711352832?s=09
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