计时器
Timekeeping is an essential component of securing the protocol. 至少一名计时器在线，才能有区块产生。 虽然可以在运行一个农民或 operator 节点时启动计时器功能，但理想的情况是使用一台高规格的专用机器来减轻处理负荷，以改善他们的工作水平。
Having a good number of timekeepers distributed geographically is our goal to foster a healthy network. Our hope is that our dedicated community run a number in addition to those being run by the team to ensure resilience and decentralization of the protocol.
There is no explicit economic incentive to running a timekeeper, however, independent timekeeping contributes to stable block production, which benefits every participant of the network.
You can read more about timekeeping in the Proof-of-Time section of the Autonomys Academy.
硬件要求
Being a timekeeper has high hardware requirements to ensure that a user with a stronger machine is not able to consistently beat every other timekeeper on the network. All timekeepers are in a race with each other to generate their proofs and we need a grid of equally provisioned F1 cars rather than a mix of classes with varying power.
Note that these specs are our starting point and are subject to change as we discover the exact characteristics required to be a good timekeeper.
| 硬件 | 规格 |
|---|---|
| CPU | 4 core+ with as high a frequency as possible. An overclocked Intel 14900k is the ideal. Note that only 1 core will be occupied with timekeeping. |
| RAM | 8GB 以上 |
| Storage | 100GB 固态硬盘 |
Command Line Parameters
There are two new CLI options on the node visible with --help:
--timekeeper- to become a timekeeper.--timekeeper-cpu-cores- to specify which cores timekeeper should use rather than random cores.