Oct 30, 2024

Validating now on the big box. This is a test of validation after download (small box target) with read ahead caching of 1024 blocks, to ensure that the CPU is never starved. 64 threads at 100% (block.accept() and block.connect()), disk reading at 100% (block read and prevout population) and writing almost nothing (block state entry). [first image] As block size increases (in order), memory will fill up with table pages but will not thrash (reading only) and disk reads will vary to maintain the read-ahead block/prevout cache. [second image] All that work we did up to this point is to get here so we can validate at 100%, because it doesn't get any faster than that.