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From: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com>
To: grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Scalability issues
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 00:59:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAS2fgQmQ6f1_025QgJsG4aEyH4yHwk-2aWUUY+2FPs7-Tpvvg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD2Ti28snGOZn9mCSALZ341TNCex23zxKHCKYztnMK3cF=jaTQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 12:20 AM, grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote:
> Update: this class of machine just became useless for bitcoin.
> When blk0002.dat was created to store more blocks, all forward
> progress processing blocks turned into losing ground by 20 or so
> a day. Guessing both datfiles were being accessed at once resulting
> in disk based overload. I've not seen any other mentions of crypto
> in this thread so I'm not sure how well new hardware would perform.
> Going shopping I guess.

I now have an 1.8 ghz p3 celeron (128k cache) which should be
substantially slower than your machine, running vintage 2.6.20 linux.
Unfortunately I forgot to turn on timestamp logging so I don't know
how long it took to sync the chain, but it was less than two days as
that was the span between when I checked on it. It's staying current
just fine.

Again, I encourage you to investigate your software configuration.



  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-27  4:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-22 22:37 [Bitcoin-development] Scalability issues grarpamp
2012-07-23  7:23 ` Raphael NICOLLE
2012-07-23  7:35 ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-07-23  9:00   ` Michael Grønager
2012-07-23 15:11     ` grarpamp
     [not found]       ` <CAAS2fgREzk_dU0ie+YvDdRwKcTk6tk_i=a2Bb74w9uF=EwYhGA@mail.gmail.com>
2012-07-23 22:33         ` grarpamp
2012-07-27  4:20           ` grarpamp
2012-07-27  4:59             ` Gregory Maxwell [this message]
2012-07-27  5:59               ` grarpamp
2012-07-27  6:03                 ` Luke-Jr
2012-07-27  6:28                   ` grarpamp
2012-07-27  6:56                 ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-07-27 19:37                   ` grarpamp
2012-07-27  8:53                 ` Andreas Petersson
     [not found]             ` <CAPg+sBjpqqxL_GxYc+8Ry7DcXMkouO9bYi5VqOyEjj_5s0x06Q@mail.gmail.com>
2012-07-27  9:59               ` Pieter Wuille
2012-07-27 19:26               ` grarpamp
2012-07-23 15:54     ` steve
2012-07-24  8:25       ` Michael Grønager
2012-07-24  9:18         ` Mike Hearn
2012-07-24 19:56         ` steve
2012-07-25  9:45           ` Michael Grønager
2012-07-25 14:24             ` steve
2012-07-23 22:50 ` Aidan Thornton

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