args tagged with "v1.18.8"

Load an account from the provided JSON file (see `solana account --help` on how to dump an account to file). Files are searched for relatively to CWD and testsfixtures. If ADDRESS is omitted via the `-` placeholder, the one in the file will be used. If the ledger already exists then this parameter is silently ignored"

Load all the accounts from the JSON files found in the specified DIRECTORY (see also the `--account` flag). If the ledger already exists then this parameter is silently ignored"

When account indexes are enabled, exclude this key from the index.

When account indexes are enabled, only include specific keys in the index. This overrides --account-index-exclude-key."

Enable an accounts index, indexed by the selected account field

Comma separated persistent accounts location. May be specified multiple times. [default: <LEDGER>accounts]"

Path to accounts shrink path which can hold a compacted account set.

How large the write cache for account data can become. If this is exceeded, the cache is flushed more aggressively."

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Enables the use of the index in hash calculation in AccountsHashVerifierAccounts Background Service."

Disable the disk-based accounts index if it is enabled by default.

Enables testing of hash calculation using stores in AccountsHashVerifier. This has a computational cost."

Use PATH as accounts hash cache location [default: <LEDGER>accounts_hash_cache]"

Number of bins to divide the accounts index into

How much memory the accounts index can consume. If this is exceeded, some account index entries will be stored on disk."

Persistent accounts-index location. May be specified multiple times. [default: <LEDGER>accounts_index]"

How large accumulated results from an accounts index scan can become. If this is exceeded, the scan aborts."

When this is set to true, the system will shrink the most sparse accounts and when the overall shrink ratio is above the specified accounts-shrink-ratio, the shrink will stop and it will skip all other less sparse accounts."

Specifies the shrink ratio for the accounts to be shrunk. The shrink ratio is defined as the ratio of the bytes alive over the total bytes used. If the account's shrink ratio is less than this ratio it becomes a candidate for shrinking. The value must between 0. and 1.0 inclusive."

Path to keypair of the authorized voter to add [default: read JSON keypair from stdin]"

Include an additional authorized voter keypair. May be specified multiple times. [default: the --identity keypair]"

Enables the banking trace explicitly, which is enabled by default and writes trace files for simulate-leader-blocks, retaining up to the default or specified total bytes in the ledger. This flag can be used to override its byte limit."

IP address to bind the validator ports

BlockProductionMethod::cli_message()

Add a SBF program to the genesis configuration with upgrades disabled. If the ledger already exists then this parameter is silently ignored. The first argument can be a pubkey string or path to a keypair"

Sanity check vote account state at startup. The JSON RPC endpoint at RPC_URL must expose `--full-rpc-api`"

Copy an account from the cluster referenced by the --url argument the genesis configuration. If the ledger already exists then this parameter is silently ignored"

Copy an upgradeable program and its executable data from the cluster referenced by the --url argument the genesis configuration. If the ledger already exists then this parameter is silently ignored"

Override the runtime's compute unit limit per transaction

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Configuration file to use

Milliseconds between printing contact debug from gossip.

Use CUDA

deactivate this feature in genesis.

Log when transactions are processed which reference a given key.

Halt the validator when it reaches the given slot

Disables the banking trace

Enable AccountsDb Replication

Range to use for dynamically assigned ports

Upload new confirmed blocks into a BigTable instance

Include CPI inner instructions, logs and return data in the historical transaction info stored"

Only expose the RPC methods required to serve snapshots to other nodes

Include CPI inner instructions, logs, and return data in the historical transaction info stored"

Fetch historical transaction info from a BigTable instance as a fallback to local ledger data"

Enable historical transaction info over JSON RPC, including the 'getConfirmedBlock' API. This will cause an increase in disk usage and IOPS"

Rendezvous with the cluster at this gossip entrypoint

verify the TLS certificate of the etcd endpoint using this CA bundle

TLS certificate to use when establishing a connection to the etcd endpoint

domain name against which to verify the etcd server’s TLS certificate

etcd gRPC endpoint to connect with

TLS key file to use when establishing a connection to the etcd endpoint

When wait-for-supermajority <x>, require the bank at <x> to have this hash

Require the shred version be this value

Require the genesis have this hash

Per-request limit for faucet requests, in SOL

Per-time slice limit for faucet requests, in SOL

Enable the faucet on this port

Give the faucet address this much SOL in genesis. If the ledger already exists then this parameter is silently ignored"

Time slice (in secs) over which to limit faucet requests

New filter using the same format as the RUST_LOG environment variable"

Request the validator exit immediately instead of waiting for a restart window"

Expose RPC methods for querying chain state and transaction history

Number of slots between generating full snapshots

Specify the configuration file for the Geyser plugin.

Gossip DNS name or IP address for the validator to advertise in gossip [default: ask --entrypoint, or 127.0.0.1 when --entrypoint is not provided]"

Gossip port number for the validator

A list of validators to gossip with. If specified, gossip will not pushpull from from validators outside this set. [default: all validators]"

Only expose the RPC methods required to serve snapshots to other nodes

Add a hard fork at this slot

Report this validator as healthy if its latest replayed optimistically confirmed slot is within the specified number of slots from the cluster's latest optimistically confirmed slot"

Validator identity keypair

Use DIR as incremental snapshot archives location [default: --snapshots value]"

Number of slots between generating snapshots, 0 to disable snapshots

Create this file if it doesn't already exist once validator initialization is complete"

URL for Solana's JSON RPC or moniker (or their first letter): [mainnet-beta, testnet, devnet, localhost]"

A snapshot hash must be published in gossip by this validator to be accepted. May be specified multiple times. If unspecified any snapshot hash will be accepted"

Use DIR as ledger location

Keep this amount of shreds in root slots.

Log mode: stream the validator log

Maximum number of bytes written to the program log before truncation

Redirect logging to the specified file, '-' for standard error. Sending the SIGUSR1 signal to the validator process will cause it to re-open the log file"

The maximum delinquent stake % permitted for an exit

maximum total uncompressed file size of downloaded genesis archive

The maximum number of full snapshot archives to hold on to when purging older snapshots."

The maximum number of incremental snapshot archives to hold on to when purging older snapshots."

Reuse a local snapshot if it's less than this many slots behind the highest snapshot available for download from other validators"

The maximum number of times to abort and retry when encountering a slow snapshot download."

Copy an account from the cluster referenced by the --url argument, skipping it if it doesn't exist. If the ledger already exists then this parameter is silently ignored"

Minimum time that the validator should not be leader before restarting"

The minimal speed of snapshot downloads measured in bytessecond. If the initial download speed falls below this threshold, the system will retry the download against a different rpc node."

Address of the mint account that will receive tokens created at genesis. If the ledger already exists then this parameter is silently ignored [default: client keypair]"

Monitor the validator after sending the exit request

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This is obsolete. See --accounts-db-index-hashing. Disables the use of the index in hash calculation in AccountsHashVerifierAccounts Background Service."

Disable manual compaction of the ledger database

Do not fetch genesis from the cluster

Disable incremental snapshots

Do not attempt to fetch a snapshot from the cluster, start from a local snapshot if present"

Launch validator without voting

Enable the obsolete RPC methods removed in v1.7

Use the RPC service of known validators only

Output display mode

Provide path to a file with custom overrides for stakes of specific validator identities."

Do not publish the RPC port for use by others

Identity pubkey of the validator to repair from

RPC address for the validator to advertise publicly in gossip. Useful for validators running behind a load balancer or proxy [default: use --rpc-bind-address --rpc-port]"

Specify TPU address to advertise in gossip [default: ask --entrypoint or localhost when --entrypoint is not provided]"

Specify TPU Forwards address to advertise in gossip [default: ask --entrypoint or localhostwhen --entrypoint is not provided]"

Quiet mode: suppress normal output

A list of validators to request repairs from. If specified, repair will not request from validators outside this set [default: all validators]"

The maximum size in bytes to which the outgoing websocket buffer can grow.

Refuse to start if saved tower state is not found

Reset the ledger to genesis if it exists. By default the validator will resume an existing ledger (if present)"

Do not publish the Gossip, TPU, TVU or Repair Service ports. Doing so causes the node to operate in a limited capacity that reduces its exposure to the rest of the cluster. The --no-voting flag is implicit when this flag is enabled"

The shred storage size in bytes. The suggested value is at least 50% of your ledger storage size. If this argument is unspecified, we will assign a proper value based on --limit-ledger-size. If --limit-ledger-size is not presented, it means there is no limitation on the ledger size and thus rocksdb_fifo_shred_storage_size will also be unbounded."

Controls how RocksDB compacts shreds. *WARNING*: You will lose your Blockstore data when you switch between options. Possible values are: 'level': stores shreds using RocksDB's default (level) compaction."

Bigtable application profile id to use in requests

Name of the Bigtable instance to upload to

Number of seconds before timing out RPC requests backed by BigTable

Max encoding and decoding message size used in Bigtable Grpc client

IP address to bind the RPC port [default: 127.0.0.1 if --private-rpc is present, otherwise use --bind-address]"

Enable the JSON RPC 'requestAirdrop' API with this faucet address.

Override the default maximum accounts accepted by the getMultipleAccounts JSON RPC method"

The maximum request body size accepted by rpc service

Add this value to niceness of RPC threads. Negative value increases priority, positive value decreases priority."

Enable JSON RPC on this port, and the next port for the RPC websocket

Enable the unstable RPC PubSub `blockSubscribe` subscription

The maximum number of active subscriptions that RPC PubSub will accept across all connections."

Enable the unstable RPC PubSub `voteSubscribe` subscription

The maximum number of threads that RPC PubSub will use for generating notifications. 0 will disable RPC PubSub notifications"

The maximum total size of notifications that RPC PubSub will store across all connections."

The maximum number of notifications that RPC PubSub will store across all connections."

PubSub worker threads

Verifies blockstore roots on boot and fixes any gaps

With `--rpc-send-transaction-tpu-peer HOST:PORT`, also send to the current leader

The maximum number of transaction broadcast retries when unspecified by the request, otherwise retried until expiration."

The number of upcoming leaders to which to forward transactions sent via rpc service."

The rate at which transactions sent via rpc service are retried.

The maximum number of transaction broadcast retries, regardless of requested value."

Peer(s) to broadcast transactions to instead of the current leader

Number of threads to use for servicing RPC requests

Shred to repair

Skip health check

Skip check for a new snapshot

Skip ledger verification at validator bootup.

Override the number of slots in an epoch. If the ledger already exists then this parameter is silently ignored"

Slot to repair

Snapshot archive format to use.

Add this value to niceness of snapshot packager thread. Negative value increases priority, positive value decreases priority."

Output snapshot version

Use DIR as the base location for snapshots. A subdirectory named "snapshots" will be created. [default: --ledger value]"

Provide path to a yaml file with custom overrides for stakes of specific identities. Overriding the amount of stake this validator considers as valid for other peers in network. The stake amount is used for calculating the number of QUIC streams permitted from the peer and vote packet sender stage. Format of the file: `staked_map_id: {<pubkey>: <SOL stake amount>}"

Use DIR as file tower storage location [default: --ledger value]

Where to store the tower

The number of ticks in a slot

TPU address to advertise in gossip

Milliseconds to wait in the TPU receiver for packet coalescing.

Controls the TPU connection pool size per remote address

Do not use QUIC to send transactions.

Enable UDP for receivingsending transactions.

TPU Forwards address to advertise in gossip

Override the runtime's account lock limit per transaction

Add an upgradeable SBF program to the genesis configuration. If the ledger already exists then this parameter is silently ignored. First and third arguments can be a pubkey string or path to a keypair. Upgrade authority set to "none" disables upgrades"

Validator vote account public key. If unspecified, voting will be disabled. The authorized voter for the account must either be the --identity keypair or set by the --authorized-voter argument"

After processing the ledger and the next slot is SLOT, wait until a supermajority of stake is visible on gossip before starting PoH"

Mode to recovery the ledger db write ahead log.

Warp the ledger to WARP_SLOT after starting the validator. If no slot is provided then the current slot of the cluster referenced by the --url argument will be used"

Set the validator's repair protocol whitelist