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RE: Mining STEEM on AWS (Free Tier)
This is a really great help - thanks for doing this. I am totally new to Linux but I'm trying to learn, could you break down what the commands in the first section are doing?
specifically:
sudo fallocate -l 4G /swapfile
sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile
chmod things are changing permissions to files, I can look that up
./bootstrap.sh --prefix=/usr/local
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DENABLE_CONTENT_PATCHING=OFF -DLOW_MEMORY_NODE=ON
after that we are installing steem and configuring.
any clarification would be great, thank you once again for taking the time to post about this!!!!
No problem. The AWS t2.micro is a low memory instance. In order to compile the software from source, we require virtual memory from the storage partition. This is what the swap commands are doing. Once you finish compiling the source files, you can turn off the swap file by running the following two commands:
sudo swapoff /swapfilesudo rm /swapfile