Validator Hardware Requirements

This section describes hardware requirements for running a validator. Note that these are reference values. Actual requirements can vary based your usage of your validator. We recommend monitoring your production validator nodes with respect to CPU and memory usage of all components and disk usage of the database, and adjust the resourcing as needed.

The requirements include both the validator and participant container.

These requirements are largely identical between the docker-compose based deployment and the k8s deployment but exclude overhead from k8s itself or ingress.

Usage	CPUs	Memory	DB CPUs	DB Memory	DB size
Experiments on local laptop or minimal VM	1	6GB	1	1GB	1GB
Production validator with little activity	2	8GB	2	4GB	10GB
Production validator for an app provider with moderate activity	2	16GB	2	4GB	100GB

Database Latency

Components are relatively sensitive to database latency. If you use a managed database offering like GCP CloudSQL, it is recommended that you allocate it in the same region and zone that your cluster runs in.