Bitcoin full node and query server
Sep 6, 2019
View in context in the libbitcoin Slack #general mirror.
evoskuil22:29
My last work in blockchain was block caching during sync, so that a large memory machine could cache blocks received out of order up to the size of the entire chain, eliminating the block read required for validation purposes. The other remaining optimization to complete is minimizing the scope of confirmation updates.
(edited)
jungly14:14
Hey @evoskuil. Here's a first pass on the experiments I ran to see how disk and virtual memory was being used when running IBD. If nothing, hopefully this provides us a way to keep measuring as we keep improving the system. Let me know if should have done anything differently, I can have another go, or improve what we capture for the next time.