Hi Everyone, I have a bit of a dilemma here. I'm trying to download the full blockchain and use it to generate checkpoint and wallet-restore files. The problem is that when I start the whole thing, the download-speed rarely reaches 1MB/s (in pulses, not consistently), and the every 24 hours or so, the app crashes. The exception originally given was "GC Overhead Limit Exceeded", then when I increased the java memory to around 6GB, now it's "Java running out of heap"ish. (Please note that MySQL query cache is set to 768MB).
This is the code I'm running as we speak: // This function starts the blockchain operation public boolean StartOperation() { // Get the NetParamrs this._netParamsForBitcoinJ = MainNetParams.get(); // Create our BlockStore file try { _ourBlockStore = new MySQLFullPrunedBlockStore(_netParamsForBitcoinJ, 1500, "localhost", "<BLOCKSTORE-DB-NAME>", "<USERNAME>", "<PASSWORD>"); } catch (BlockStoreException exc) { return false; } try { _ourBlockChain = new FullPrunedBlockChain(_netParamsForBitcoinJ, _ourBlockStore); } catch (BlockStoreException blockStoreException) { return false; } // We launch our peer-group _ourPeerGroup = new PeerGroup(_netParamsForBitcoinJ, _ourBlockChain); _ourPeerGroup.addPeerDiscovery(new DnsDiscovery(_netParamsForBitcoinJ)); _ourPeerGroup.setMaxConnections(250); _ourPeerGroup.setMaxPeersToDiscoverCount(250); // We start our peer-group _ourPeerGroup.start(); _ourPeerGroup.startBlockChainDownload(new PeerDataEventListenerEx(this) { @Override public void onBlocksDownloaded(Peer peer, Block block, FilteredBlock fb, int i) { // Call super... super.onBlocksDownloaded(peer, block, fb, i); } @Override public void onChainDownloadStarted(Peer peer, int i) { // Call super... super.onChainDownloadStarted(peer, i); } @Override public List<Message> getData(Peer peer, GetDataMessage gdm) { return null; } }); // We do need to return something... which is 'true' in this case return true; } As a comparison, I ran "bitcoind" on the same machine, took seven hours to fully synchronize, at a constant rate of 9MB/s (on a 100Mbps connection). The machine in question has an Intel i5 Quad-Core, with 8GB RAM and 500GB SSD, running Ubuntu 16. Thanks in advance, Nasser -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bitcoinj" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bitcoinj+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.