RE: Could anyone who has been running a Steem Witness or Seed Node please post some specs for me?
Content is getting absolutely lost on the site right now, I stumbled on this by doing some googling myself.
I've done mining in the past, and yes, everything is bound to CPU usage. While I was mining, I was running 32 core machines and didn't care much about the RAM or disk (simply because they had way more than I needed).
From what I understand of the witness nodes - I don't think they chew too much CPU, but they need a bunch of RAM. I think 8gb right now would skirt by (barely), and it will soon outgrow it. 16-32gb would probably get you through the next few months. Hopefully some optimization is done in the future and RAM usage won't be so intense.
I'd recommend jumping into steemit.chat and joining #witness. It's pretty quiet most days, but I'm sure you could get questions answered there more easily. I honestly think no one answered you simply because no one saw this post (which is a problem of it's own).
@jesta Thank you so much for the reply! I honestly do hope no one answered because my post got buried so fast. I'm super amazed you found it on Google though?
I'd have to agree with you that posts or getting so disorganized because of the way they're only tagged and not sorted into sub's that a lot of good posts are simply getting buried long before they're even seen.
Heh, there's not much on google when you look for
site:steemit.com witness node. I think that's how I stumbled on it!Lol, now you see why I cracked jokes about a secret society or Cabal being in charge of the nodes. If Google found me asking for help before it actually found you help there's a serious lack of info out there about nodes and their specs.