Solana validator doesnt start on port 8899 using it as rpc

External question — Solana Stack Exchange Author: NIkos Dimitrakopoulos Original post: https://solana.stackexchange.com/questions/13115 License: CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. I am trying to start an full rpc on mainnet. I keep getting these logs. what is rebuilt storages for 134832/414439 slots with 0 collisions Apr 19 07:23:14 vultr validator.sh[28731]: [2024-04-19T07:23:14.669770342Z INFO solana_metrics::metrics] datapoint: disk-stats reads_completed=722i reads_merged=0i sectors_read=184832i time_reading_ms=9737i writes_completed=139i writes_merged=740i sectors_written=161872i time_writing_ms=26352i io_in_progress=0i time_io_ms=4988i time_io_weighted_ms=34520i discards_completed=0i discards_merged=0i sectors_discarded=0i time_discarding=0i flushes_completed=0i time_flushing=0i num_disks=4i Apr 19 07:23:15 vultr validator.sh[28731]: [2024-04-19T07:23:15.287445396Z INFO solana_runtime::snapshot_utils::snapshot_storage_rebuilder] rebuilt storages for 134832/414439 slots with 0 collisions Apr 19 07:23:15 vultr validator.sh[28731]: [2024-04-19T07:23:15.961805698Z INFO solana_metrics::metrics] datapoint: net-stats-validator in_datagrams_delta=5i no_ports_delta=0i in_errors_delta=2i out_datagrams_delta=5i rcvbuf_errors_delta=2i sndbuf_errors_delta=0i in_csum_errors_delta=0i ignored_multi_delta=0i in_errors=3571587i rcvbuf_errors=3571587i sndbuf_errors=395i rx_bytes_delta=5614i rx_packets_delta=15i rx_errs_delta=0i rx_drops_delta=0i rx_fifo_delta=0i rx_frame_delta=0i tx_bytes_delta=9055i tx_packets_delta=16i tx_errs_delta=0i tx_drops_delta=0i tx_fifo_delta=0i tx_colls_delta=0i when I run this #!/bin/bash #!/bin/bash # Set PATH export RUST_LOG=info export RUST_BACKTRACE=1 exec solana-validator \ --identity /root/validator-keypair.json \ --trusted-validator 7Np41oeYqPefeNQEHSv1UDhYrehxin3NStELsSKCT4K2 \ --trusted-validator GdnSyH3YtwcxFvQrVVJMm1JhTS4QVX7MFsX56uJLUfiZ \ --trusted-validator DE1bawNcRJB9rVm3buyMVfr8mBEoyyu73NBovf2oXJsJ \ --trusted-validator CakcnaRDHka2gXyfbEd2d3xsvkJkqsLw2akB3zsN1D2S \ --expected-genesis-hash 5eykt4UsFv8P8NJdTREpY1vzqKqZKvdpKuc147dw2N9d \ --entrypoint entrypoint.mainnet-beta.solana.com:8001 \ --entrypoint entrypoint2.mainnet-beta.solana.com:8001 \ --entrypoint entrypoint3.mainnet-beta.solana.com:8001 \ --snapshot-interval-slots 500 \ --maximum-local-snapshot-age 500 \ --rpc-port 8899 \ --rpc-bind-address 0.0.0.0 \ --full-rpc-api \ --only-known-rpc \ --dynamic-port-range 8000-8014 \ --no-voting \ --wal-recovery-mode skip_any_corrupted_record \ --snapshot-archive-format lz4 \ --no-wait-for-vote-to-start-leader \ --limit-ledger-size 50000000 \ --init-complete-file /var/root/data/init-completed \ --accounts /mnt/accounts \ --ledger /mnt/ledger \ --log - \ And when I try this I get it is stuck here for hours. Any help? the service file is this [Unit] Description=Solana Validator Service After=network.target [Service] Environment="PATH=/root/.local/share/solana/install/active_release/bin:$PATH" StandardOutput=journal StandardError=inherit ExecStart=/root/solana-rpc-setup/validator.sh User=root Restart=always LimitNOFILE=1000000 [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target System Specifications Overview Network Speed Download : 1893.74 Mbps Upload : 1440.93 Mbps Storage Capacity /dev/vdb2 Total : 1.2 TB Used : 97 GB Available : 994 GB tmpfs Total : 3.2 GB Used : 0 GB Available : 3.2 GB CPU Specifications Model : AMD EPYC-Rome Processor Architecture : x86_64 CPU(s) : 16 Cores per Socket : 8 Thread(s) per Core : 2 Total Threads : 32 CPU MHz : 1996.249 L1 Cache : 256 KiB (d) / 256 KiB (i) L2 Cache : 4 MiB L3 Cache : 16 MiB Virtualization Type : Full Hypervisor Vendor : Microsoft Operating System System : Unix-based, running on a Microsoft hypervisor

External answer — Solana Stack Exchange Author: Serban Original post: https://solana.stackexchange.com/a/13116 License: CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. Could be that the server you're running the validator is not powerful enough to process the ledger efficiently, and it takes a lot of time to get started, during start-up port 8899 is not being used, this is normal. Check this for hardware requirements: https://docs.solanalabs.com/operations/requirements