# RFP - Run Your Own Zcash Full Node

**URL:** <https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/rfp-run-your-own-zcash-full-node/41529>\
**Category:** RFI - RFP Grants\
**Created:** [May 9, 2022, 1:01pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/rfp-run-your-own-zcash-full-node/41529 "2022-05-09T13:01:42Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 9, 2022, 4:22pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/rfp-run-your-own-zcash-full-node/41529/6 "2022-05-09T16:22:31Z")

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> [@gottabeJay](#):
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> Raspberry pies are good for this.

In theory, yes but with Zcash it’s not so easy. You at least want a 4GB version:

> [@Trying to build on ARM](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/trying-to-build-on-arm/32850/84):
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> Updated for the Nvidia Jetson Nano. I managed to sync from scratch with this but it wasn’t great. It runs a custom spin of Ubuntu 18.04. Syncing was slow and I had one out of memory error. I didn’t configure any swap but due to low memory, it was swapping out to the SD card which was obviously terribly slow. I tweaked the swappiness value via sudo sysctl vm.swappiness=0 which helped complete the sync. Unless you have specific needs for the Nvidia, I’d probably recommend the Odroid N2 or Pine64 …

And last I checked there was no ARM binary that was available from ECC or ZFND, you have to cross complile every time there is an update (or every 16 weeks whichever comes first)

> [@Trying to build on ARM](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/trying-to-build-on-arm/32850/133):
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> We are going to push some documents describing how to build on ARM and other platforms easier soon. Additionally, some of the docker work we did a couple years ago will allow some of this process to be handled through docker buildx mechanisms or similar. The work being done right now will guide ARM to being a fully supported and deployed platform, like Debian or Ubuntu packaging.

I assume the scope of this RFP would address that issue?

My poor Pine64 I bought just to run a Zcash node 24/7 is sitting there collecting dust because it’s such a broken system to get Zcash software on to it 😔

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