Wow.. 16+ hours for windows wallet to download the blockchain and it's only about 60% done. Huge amount of data going out and very little coming in. WTF
mine was done from scratch this AM in abt 20 mins
Thank for the info. I just tried it on another computer/network/isp and it's much much faster.
It looks like the bottleneck is the upload bandwidth. I have DSL with slow upload speed and it brings the blockchain download to an excruciating crawl. Only with this wallet.
Still concerned about why the huge proportion of outgoing vs incoming data.
There may be some sort of bug; I noticed an extremely high rate of getblocks in the log during the initial sync on my build. After seeing a setbestchain in the log with the current block number, I restarted the daemon and after that the behaviour seemed normal. It looks like the vanillacoin daemon trys to allow getblocks to occur as fast as possible, compared to the slower rate used with bitcoin.