Setup

Recommended Specs

• SBP (Snapshot Block Producer / Supernode) - 2 CPUs / 8 GB RAM
• Full node - 1 CPU / 4 GB RAM

A minimum of 5 Mbit/s stable internet connection is required.

Minimal Installation

You can start a full node on the Vite mainnet quickly by following the steps below. While this is a convenient way to check if everything is working as intended, you should change the default configuration to your needs. All configuration options are described here.

1. Download & extract the latest release of go-vite (opens new window)
2. Open a terminal and cd into the installation directory
3. Run ./gvite to start the full node with the default configuration

The following result should be displayed:

Copy Vite RPC service started successfully!

It can take some time until the node starts syncing the distributed ledger but eventually the following output should appear:

Copy [Snapshot Stats] Height:10001, Hash:ec543ff3f7397876b6c67a41a170c0e1f97ac637fee4c4db3d1903087f42312e, Timestamp:2019-05-22 01:20:13 +0000 UTC, Producer:vite_dff5ee13c87ed2f205ef87d820b3cd8e97c181b1bb6781c602, Time:2022-05-29 12:16:09.19895974 +0000 UTC m=+51.489945950

To estimate the time needed to sync the entire ledger, you can check the current height with one of the available explorers and compare it to the height above.

Directory Structure

Installation directory

Refers to the folder where gvite boot script and configuration files are located. For example, ~/gvite-${version}-${os} is an installation directory.

gvite : Gvite executable file bootstrap : Optional boot script to start the node node_config.json : Configuration file

Working directory

The working directory contains sub-directories/files such as "ledger", "ledger_files", "LOCK", "net", "rpclog", "runlog" and "wallet".

Copy cd ~/.gvite/maindata

ledger : Ledger directory for storing transactions and snapshot blocks. rpclog : Directory for storing RPC logs runlog : Directory for storing run-time logs wallet : Wallet keystore directory for storing keystore files that secure private keys. Do remember KEEP YOUR PRIVATE KEY SAFE.

Stop/Reboot Node

If you started the node with the ./boostrap script, you might need the following instructions to stop or reboot your node.

Execute the following command

Copy ps -ef|grep gvite

to obtain the gvite process id

Copy ubuntu 27268 1 99 16:00 ? 01:54:56 ./gvite -pprof

Kill it with

Copy kill -9 27268

Then reboot

Copy ./bootstrap

To check if gvite has rebooted successfully, run:

Copy ps -ef|grep gvite