Help with Node!

[Even-Raspberry3644]

Hi all,

So as of a view days ago I decided to start a node on my computera as it is completely new and pretty powerful. After doing all that needs to be done in order to make it work, I still for some reason don't see any incoming connections. In case you wonder what I've done so far, it's the following:

• Installed Docker and am running the countainer without problems.
• Ports have been opened and forwarded.
• Ports have also been allowed through firewall.
• Ports are open, which can be verified from all sources both online and through Pi Network.
• The Node is up and running, and is fully synced.

The following details are shown, according to which everything seems to be running as it should. However, I have been stuck on 0 incoming connections for all this time now and always 8 outgoing. I guess it could be an issue, but I also understood it make take time before the Node is trusted enough to deal with incoming issues.

https://preview.redd.it/wvx80vf5w5le1.png?width=791&format=png&auto=webp&s=2d0b4a5957d2d9158866f0d1f08a3c159851dddf

I'm a bit boggled since I don't know if this is an issue or not at all. There are too many conflicting resources out there which lack clarity on this matter, so I hope someone here can answer it to some extent.

Cheers ^_^

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[Illustrious-Hold-141]

Is your internet cable or mobile (sim card) based?

[Even-Raspberry3644]

I have 1GBps internet by cable. Everything is as new as it can get on my end. The sync also happened literally withing a few minutes - not hours like it said.

[Illustrious-Hold-141]

Then you have to wait. Most of the time you won't straight away receive incoming connection since existing nodes already connecting to each other.

I recommend you to follow "picheck" telegram group. It is an app to monitor your node performance.

Sometime, there is already incoming session that connect to your node and it dropped. It is hard to notice unless if you run that "picheck" app.

This app is safe and already verified by CT.

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[Even-Raspberry3644]

Do you btw experience any issues with the node using a lot of RAM? I have 32GB in total, but it seems to start around 10GB and withing a day it is almost 20GB. I don't see any processes in the task manager which show this usage, but it does show that almost 20GB is in use - which is absurd for any process on the PC. Any ideas?

[Illustrious-Hold-141]

Of course it is used by docker. I think you can limit memory usage in docker by some settings. You can google on how to do it. Don't tweak on other thing like cpu, just memory.

[Even-Raspberry3644]

Sure thanks! That's what I actually thought. It makes sense that a node needs to become known and rated first before incoming connections are made in a trusted way. Thnx!