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System Requirements

Run Nethermind from any platform of your choice
This page describes the supported operating systems and hardware requirements to run the Nethermind client.

Supported operating systems

Linux

Operating System
Version
Architecture
Tested by us
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7+
x64
CentOS
8+
x64
Ubuntu
16.04+
x64, ARM64, ARM32
Fedora
32+
x64
Debian
9+
x64, ARM64, ARM32
Linux Mint
18+
x64
openSUSE
15+
x64
SUSE Enterprise Linux (SLES)
12 SP2+
x64
Alpine Linux
3.11+
x64, ARM64
Raspberry PI4
-
ARM64, ARM32
Gentoo Linux
-
ARM64

Windows

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Supported operating systems
Operating System
Version
Architecture
Tested by us
Windows 10 Client
1607+
x64, x86
Windows Client
7 SP1(*), 8.1
x64, x86
Windows Server
2012 R2+
x64, x86
Windows Server Core
2012 R2+
x64, x86
Nano Server
1809+
x64

MacOS

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Supported operating systems
Operating System
Architecture
Tested by us
Mojave+ 10.13+
x64

Hardware requirements

Generally the faster IO operations the better. For this reason Digital Ocean and UpCloud are so far the best cloud providers we have tested when running Nethermind nodes.
When syncing locally make sure that you get the fastest SSD possible. Assume that any storage at HDD speed level is not supported (most likely will take many times longer to sync and possibly will not be able to catch up with the network).
Internal testing showed the following IOPS required to sync mainnet, please note that this was a test environement ans results may vary. We recommend at least 5000 IOPS to properly sync mainnet.
IOPS
Sync time
2000
~15:30h
3000
~12:00h
5000
~12:00h
10000
~12:00h
After startup the node will display the estimated max memory usage but not everything is accounted for and some block processing / some fast sync temporary caches may go above these values.
You can use the config option --Init.MemoryHint to suggest the amount of memory to be used by the database and some network operations. During the sync process there will be more memory used for caches.
Suggested requirements can be found below.
You can try much lower setups with smaller networks.
Network
Disk space (GB)
Memory (GB)
Cores
Mainnet Fast Sync
800+
16
4
Mainnet Full Archive
12000+ (12 TB)
128
8
Goerli Fast Sync
100+
8
2
Goerli Full Archive
400+
8
4
Gnosis Fast Sync
120+
16
2
Poacore Fast Sync
100+
8
2
EnergyWeb Fast Sync
120+
8
2
Volta Fast Sync
200+
8
2
Disk space requirements:
A freshly fast synced Mainnet disk space usage (as of Aug 2022)