Bitcoin full node and query server
May 29, 2024
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evoskuil21:09
This is the lowest end specification run I've ever attempted.
8 dual cores (16 logical) @ base clock 2.1GHz
8 GiB 2400Mhz RAM
2TB 560/530 MBps SATA SSD
7 year old Dell board
2.3Gbps peak measured WAN bandwidth.
It completed a full chain sync to block 840,000 in 2:15.
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evoskuil07:27
But it's really cool to see all of the odd hot spots go away and see the entire report just showing deserialization from the wire and serialization to the disk, with some hashing in the deserialization.