From 5b34f251847a3c66b444959800b70e9863b10bbe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Toth <andrewstoth@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:17:00 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] dbcache: bump default from 450MB -> 1024MB if enough memory

If dbcache is unset, bump default from 450MB to 1024MB on 64-bit systems
that have at least 4GB of detected RAM.
---
 src/init.cpp        |  2 +-
 src/node/caches.cpp | 16 +++++++++++++++-
 src/node/caches.h   |  1 +
 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/init.cpp b/src/init.cpp
index adc1dacc757..417546058d4 100644
--- a/src/init.cpp
+++ b/src/init.cpp
@@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ void SetupServerArgs(ArgsManager& argsman, bool can_listen_ipc)
     argsman.AddArg("-conf=<file>", strprintf("Specify path to read-only configuration file. Relative paths will be prefixed by datadir location (only useable from command line, not configuration file) (default: %s)", BITCOIN_CONF_FILENAME), ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY, OptionsCategory::OPTIONS);
     argsman.AddArg("-datadir=<dir>", "Specify data directory", ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY | ArgsManager::DISALLOW_NEGATION, OptionsCategory::OPTIONS);
     argsman.AddArg("-dbbatchsize", strprintf("Maximum database write batch size in bytes (default: %u)", DEFAULT_DB_CACHE_BATCH), ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY | ArgsManager::DEBUG_ONLY, OptionsCategory::OPTIONS);
-    argsman.AddArg("-dbcache=<n>", strprintf("Maximum database cache size <n> MiB (minimum %d, default: %d). Make sure you have enough RAM. In addition, unused memory allocated to the mempool is shared with this cache (see -maxmempool).", MIN_DB_CACHE >> 20, DEFAULT_DB_CACHE >> 20), ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY, OptionsCategory::OPTIONS);
+    argsman.AddArg("-dbcache=<n>", strprintf("Maximum database cache size <n> MiB (minimum %d, default: %d). Make sure you have enough RAM. In addition, unused memory allocated to the mempool is shared with this cache (see -maxmempool).", MIN_DB_CACHE >> 20, node::GetDefaultDBCache() >> 20), ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY, OptionsCategory::OPTIONS);
     argsman.AddArg("-includeconf=<file>", "Specify additional configuration file, relative to the -datadir path (only useable from configuration file, not command line)", ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY, OptionsCategory::OPTIONS);
     argsman.AddArg("-allowignoredconf", strprintf("For backwards compatibility, treat an unused %s file in the datadir as a warning, not an error.", BITCOIN_CONF_FILENAME), ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY, OptionsCategory::OPTIONS);
     argsman.AddArg("-loadblock=<file>", "Imports blocks from external file on startup", ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY, OptionsCategory::OPTIONS);
diff --git a/src/node/caches.cpp b/src/node/caches.cpp
index 5e285e8907b..cb8afbc967d 100644
--- a/src/node/caches.cpp
+++ b/src/node/caches.cpp
@@ -27,8 +27,22 @@ static constexpr size_t MAX_FILTER_INDEX_CACHE{1024_MiB};
 static constexpr size_t MAX_TXOSPENDER_INDEX_CACHE{1024_MiB};
 //! Maximum dbcache size on 32-bit systems.
 static constexpr size_t MAX_32BIT_DBCACHE{1024_MiB};
+//! Larger default dbcache on 64-bit systems with enough RAM.
+static constexpr size_t HIGH_DEFAULT_DBCACHE{1024_MiB};
+//! Minimum detected RAM required for HIGH_DEFAULT_DBCACHE.
+static constexpr uint64_t HIGH_DEFAULT_DBCACHE_MIN_TOTAL_RAM{4096ULL << 20};
 
 namespace node {
+size_t GetDefaultDBCache()
+{
+    if constexpr (sizeof(void*) >= 8) {
+        if (GetTotalRAM().value_or(0) >= HIGH_DEFAULT_DBCACHE_MIN_TOTAL_RAM) {
+            return HIGH_DEFAULT_DBCACHE;
+        }
+    }
+    return DEFAULT_DB_CACHE;
+}
+
 size_t CalculateDbCacheBytes(const ArgsManager& args)
 {
     if (auto db_cache{args.GetIntArg("-dbcache")}) {
@@ -37,7 +51,7 @@ size_t CalculateDbCacheBytes(const ArgsManager& args)
         constexpr auto max_db_cache{sizeof(void*) == 4 ? MAX_32BIT_DBCACHE : std::numeric_limits<size_t>::max()};
         return std::max<size_t>(MIN_DB_CACHE, std::min<uint64_t>(db_cache_bytes, max_db_cache));
     }
-    return DEFAULT_DB_CACHE;
+    return GetDefaultDBCache();
 }
 
 CacheSizes CalculateCacheSizes(const ArgsManager& args, size_t n_indexes)
diff --git a/src/node/caches.h b/src/node/caches.h
index 8ea2fbffc0b..62f097411ba 100644
--- a/src/node/caches.h
+++ b/src/node/caches.h
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ static constexpr size_t MIN_DB_CACHE{4_MiB};
 static constexpr size_t DEFAULT_DB_CACHE{DEFAULT_KERNEL_CACHE};
 
 namespace node {
+size_t GetDefaultDBCache();
 struct IndexCacheSizes {
     size_t tx_index{0};
     size_t filter_index{0};