Witness server memory size
Last Saturday, while checking on my witness server status, i noticed my witness was shutdown automatically by the network ( i think this happens when you miss two or more blocks in a row ). Logged in to my server, and the docker container that runs my steemit witness was in a weird status, i.e:
Container exists?: YES
Container running?: NO
Went on to check the logs to notice a million screens with red letters<--- not a good sign!
I then re-run my container with replay, just to have it fail with insufficient memory at 98% . I then noticed than even though i set my shm size to 32GB, it showed just 16GB available memory.
Found the offending setting in my config file, where the shm_size was set to 16G. I set this to 32G, replayed the whole thing and it all went finally well. This means the size of the blockchain passed the 16G barrier!
Witness has been happily humming since then, no issues...
I wish i could find the time to implement Conductor or some other tool that will help me better monitor my witness, as advised by some friends in the Steemit witness chat, but found the installation instructions not very clear, so left it aside in the meantime.
Anyway, this server has 64GB Ram memory, i thought my witness docker container would first use this before going for any file based RAM ( i come from a DOS/Windows world ), but that's obviously not the case.
On another positive note, my seed server ( seed.windforce.farm <-- is this seed URL cool or what? ) runs flawlessly for so long that if it ever has an issue i won't even remember what to do there :-)
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If you see the current top 200 witnesses ( https://witstats.steemliberator.com/witness_list ) you will notice many witnesses are inactive, even in the top 100 ( some have been inactive for months) . Please help me or other motivated witnesses jump up in the ranks so the inactive witnesses will disappear down the line.
Please go to the https://steemit.com/~witnesses page, roll down to the bottom of the list, type windforce in the box and click Vote.