Jan 31, 2020

Hey guys, at inacta AG we’ve setup a new libbitcoin-server we use for a clients new product we are developing. Unfortunately it’s syncing now since 1 month but by now we are only at height 510074. Our machine has 8 Cores, 32 GB of RAM and 2 TB SSD (the HUGE instance from Exoscale listed here: https://www.exoscale.com/pricing/#storage-optimized-instances), running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. The hardware is not at the limit at all, so it can’t be that. We are running the latest release (v3.6.0 - looking forward to 4.0! ;)) We have been using the default config at first, then I tweaked it a bit like this: inbound_connections = 10 outbound_connections = 10 Added a bunch of peers from the Bitcoin Core seed file: peer=2.24.141.73:8333 peer=5.8.18.29:8333 peer=5.43.228.99:8333 peer=5.145.10.122:8333 peer=5.166.35.47:8333 peer=5.188.187.130:8333 peer=108.15.243.207:8333 peer=108.58.252.82:8333 peer=108.160.202.208:8333 peer=108.213.205.103:8333 peer=109.72.83.127:8333 peer=109.99.63.159:8333 peer=194.71.225.55:8333 peer=194.135.135.69:8333 peer=194.158.92.150:8333 peer=195.13.220.165:8333 Yesterday I’ve also added a checkpoint from ~16h ago, but that doesn’t help either. checkpoint = 000000000000000000047fa625a4b78638edb31ef2a9bd641b44765596adcca3:615220 It seems the problem is that we just don’t get many blocks from our peers. Any ideas what to try next? Thanks.