Bitcoin full node and query server
Oct 15, 2024
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evoskuil12:37
It is likely that the default settings will be suboptimal for your machine, even resulting in thrashing. If you post your basic specs I can make suggestions. One of the aspects we are working on is automatically tuning what is presently manual configuration for given platform.
Also note that if your CPU supports sha native (shani), which is about 5x faster individual hashing, it will distort realistic benchmarking, since shani is not yet integrated into the hashing library.
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cguida20:15
Would you be willing to share the link to this? My "searching for cheap hardware" skills clearly need work... https://libbitcoin.slack.com/archives/C6LH74ACQ/p1729020838107709?thread_ts=1728563873.913659&cid=C6LH74ACQ
Eric Voskuil
This is 8 dual cores (16 threads) at 4.75 GHz. That's better than my machine (2.1GHz) running at 32 threads. The RAM is twice as fast as mine (4800KHz vs. 2400), as is the SSD bus (PCIe4 vs. 3). This could probably sync the full chain on my WAN in ~1.5 hours, for $208 and free shipping.