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# Best Practices for node hosts in Cronos

In order to make it more convenient for Dapps and node hosts to setup a node, we put together a list of useful settings and configurations. Feel free to refer to this guide, and adapt settings to suit your use-case.

# config.toml

# Log_level

  • info Depending on the needs of your application it is ok to stick to info (default), but do consider setting up log-rotation for your logs, and archive logs after a certain amount of time or size, e.g. use a cron job with weekly rotation or until your file size hits ~5GB.
  • set to debug only for debugging purpose, turn off after you are finished with debugging.

# db_backend

  • goleveldb (default) db: for low / medium level traffic use case. The reason being there can be some lock contention, especially with P2P.
  • rocksdb suited for a lot of use-cases, especially for high query load ~ few M / day. Has a better balance between rpc queries and p2p at high traffic. Note thatRocksdb however might have a slower startup time and requires a higher memory allocation.

# max_num_inbound_peers and max_num_outbound_peers

  • max_num_inbound_peers For node providers the number of inbound peers can be set to a higher value for example 50.
  • max_num_outbound_peers For users on a private network set a higher number of outbound peers to 30 for example.
  • After peers are connected, set it back to its default value. Note that some trial values might be needed to get it right.

# app.toml

# pruning

  • default Normal usage can just set to default. In the Cosmos SDK this is defined as:
PruneDefault = NewPruningOptions(362880, 100, 10)

meaning the app will keep the latest 362880 versions (around 21 days by 5 secs block time), and then only keep 1 version for every 100 blocks past the keepRecent period( the rest will be put into the pruning list), and then execute the pruning every 10 blocks.

  • everything if you only need to do transaction broadcasting and only need the last blocks.
  • nothing for DApps that want to be able to query information at a certain known blockheight. Note that this is only needed for archive nodes.

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