Blockstream / Blockstream/esplora
Feature Request: Let electrs and esplora be self-hosted by users (not currently possible)
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I did not see a way to open an issue on the Blockstream electrs fork. So I am opening it here as it is a dependency of Esplora.
My computer has 16 GB of RAM. Even if I'm only using a few GB of RAM before trying to sync electrs for the liquid network, it quickly consumes all of my RAM casuing both liquid and electrs to crash. Right now it is impossible to actually get electrs to work due to the memory leak or resource depletion. I happen to be on a computer with intel ME stripped out (impossible to do after sandy and ivy bridge) so I am able to handle 16 GB of RAM. However, most freedom computers which do not include backdoors in the CPU (like intel or AMD) actually are limited to 4GB of RAM. Does electrs (and blockstream green of which electrs is a dependency of to use it privately) actually require use of backdoored computers to use? I'd think that even 16 GB of RAM would have been enough. But we should also keep in mind the computers that are capped at 4 GB of RAM.
Is it possible to limit the amount of RAM used by electrs to prevent it from consuming all system resources and crashing? 16 GB of RAM is ALOT and should in itself be enough.
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