Quote from: ranochigo on July 24, 2017, 01:22:53 PM

Quote from: Turner77 on July 24, 2017, 01:15:35 PM

I have other BTC wallets, but I want to run Bitcoin Core and support the network.

The sync is making steady but slow progress. From the system monitoring I've done, my network connection doesn't seem to be a bottleneck.

This is the first time I've installed Bitcoin Core, so I wasn't sure how long the first blockchain download would be.

Thanks for the replies!

The bottleneck likely lies within your computer being slow to verify blocks which is completely normal. My 8 year old laptop took a day or two to completely synchronize. If you observe your task manager, you should see the CPU being utilised.

If you want to speed up the process, you can increase the dbcache but it would take up more ram than usual. Go to your Bitcoin data directory, %appdata%\Bitcoin for windows. Create a file called Bitcoin.conf and insert the following:

Code:

-dbcache=1000

and this will increase your cache by 700mb.

I did the change to the -dbcache size as you suggested. That did speed things up a bit. Thanks!