<p>As long as your nodes are running on separate ports and using separate data directories, you should have no issues running multiple networks.</p>

<p>Note that you may run into resource issues, especially with regular spinning HDDs, if both networks have high requirements for disk writes and reads at any point.</p>

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<p>Hope it won't mess anything up on my mainnet node.</p>

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Is it okay to run regtest for dev purposes while simultaneously running a node on mainnet (bitcoind)?
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# Is it okay to run regtest for dev purposes while simultaneously running a node on mainnet (bitcoind)?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2018-10-30)

Hope it won't mess anything up on my mainnet node.

**Tags:** bitcoind, regtest


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### Answer by username_1 on 2018-10-30. Score: 1

As long as your nodes are running on separate ports and using separate data directories, you should have no issues running multiple networks.

Note that you may run into resource issues, especially with regular spinning HDDs, if both networks have high requirements for disk writes and reads at any point.


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