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Re: Blocksonly mode BW savings, the limits of efficient block xfer, and better relay
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sickpig
on 26/02/2016, 08:51:32 UTC
How much less bandwidth does blocksonly use in practice?  I recently measured this using two techniques: Once by instrumenting a node to measure bandwidth used for blocks vs all other traffic, and again by repeatedly running in both modes for a day and monitoring the hosts total network usage; both modes gave effectively the same result.

How much is the savings?  Blocksonly reduced the node's bandwidth usage by 88%.

Do you care to share the raw data? I would like to independently verify your claim.

edit: the patch to introduced code changes to measure different type of bandwidth would be even better.