Just watch the memory usage. It never really gets much over 1gb with the default setting. So there's no way it's keeping the whole utxo set in ram.
At a certain point the bottleneck is not ram swapping (I think going above 16gb dbcache has deminishing returns) but the single thread CPU performance. I don't think you're going to get a performance boost from pruning the utxo set if that's when possible. So even if your pi has 16gb of the ram the poor single thread CPU performance will be the main bottleneck.
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npub1ta…nar0x
2025-12-11 04:11:40 UTC
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