Lily Hardware requirements (OUT DATED)

Lily's requirements depend on which tasks the Lily daemon is asked to run.

Out dated work in progress

Lily’s base hardware requirements are those of a Lotus node.

From that point, the requirements depend on how you intend to operate Lily and what tasks you will run.

We attempt to characterize the heaviest load scenario to illustrate some of the performance concerns and limitations.

The Sentinel team operates Lily on r5.8xlarge AWS instances and have found this sizing to accommodate the majority of the workload we ask of Lily. This instance comes with:

  • 256GiB RAM
  • 32vCPU running on 3.1Ghz Intel Xeon (Skylake-SP or Cascade Lake)
  • 10Gbps network access
  • 3Tb EBS volume (w 6,800Mbps EBS transfer rate)

A typical deployment of Lily will configure two server instances w the following four Jobs:

  • Instance #1
lily job run --storage=db --window=30s --tasks="blocks,messages,chaineconomics,actorstatesraw,actorstatespower,actorstatesreward,actorstatesmultisig,msapprovals" watch --confidence=100
lily job run --storage=db --window=30s --tasks=actorstatesinit watch --confidence=100
lily job run --storage=db --window=60s --tasks=actorstatesmarket watch --confidence=100
  • Instance #2
lily job run --storage=db --window=60s --task=actorstatesminer watch --confidence=100

The reason is that this allows watch tasks to run in parallel in a way that is most effective. The miner task is specially heavy and needs dedicated resources, as otherwise it is too slow and will last more than 30 seconds. This is also the reason why the window is extended to 60 seconds in some cases, so that those tasks can occassionaly run for longer.

Lily Tasks are typically memory-bound, then disk-bound before they are CPU-bound. Disk IO and CPU usage are not as highly demanded as memory. Memory-optimized hardware should be prioritized for Lily deployments.