Re: [Bitcoin-development] Scalability issues

2012-07-27 Thread grarpamp
> I'd love to know precisely what Bitcoin is doing thats making your > machine so unhappy... but your configuration is uncommon for bitcoin > nodes in many distinct ways so it's not clear where to start. That's why I posted the details of the machine so interested people could duplicate it if they

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Scalability issues

2012-07-27 Thread grarpamp
> You are however using a filesystem (ZFS) I'm aware of the memory and i386 issues, and going shopping. > The bdb backend Bitcoin uses > does many I/O operations, and writes them synchronously to disk, killing > whatever caching your filesystem provides. Sync... yes, depending on the rate/sec an

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Scalability issues

2012-07-27 Thread Pieter Wuille
And now to the list... On Jul 27, 2012 6:21 AM, "grarpamp" 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

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Scalability issues

2012-07-27 Thread Andreas Petersson
I propose a pragmatic solution: Try running the Multibit client. i am not sure if the linux/java based installer would work,so maybe you have to build it from source. I tried it out is really fast compared to bitcoin-qt. after install it took me 15 seconds to get updated and running. Importing a