When I launch mist, it starts up a geth node by default. How do I specify the configurations for this node?
Specifically, I just want to achieve the equivalent of geth --cache=1024
which I can do via a CLI prior to launching the mist GUI.
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When I launch mist, it starts up a geth node by default. How do I specify the configurations for this node?
Specifically, I just want to achieve the equivalent of geth --cache=1024
which I can do via a CLI prior to launching the mist GUI.
Best Answer
Mist now accepts new options that can be passed to the underlying node, which by default is
geth
. You can use all the same options from the node, you just need to prefix them with--node
. For instance, thegeth
option--datadir
becomesmist
option--node-datadir
.My mist launcher looks something like this:
On linux, you can see your options were used to launch geth with a command like the following: