Bitcoin full node and query server

Sep 7, 2019

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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.

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jungly08:51

The worry would be if the cache itself gets paged out to disk. Maybe we will have to consider mlock on cache and indexes? I am sure you thought about it, any reason we don't do it yet for things like indexes? Are they too large for small memory machines?