What is God's name is going on with the Ethereum Mist Wallet node sync?
I mean seriously???
Stuck on block 4,219,024 and the Chain Structure is 669800+ out of 695000+ going backwards and forwards.
So so aggravating!!! Coming from Bitcoin.
How is the public supposed to sit through this kind of sync?
10GB's x of data, hours and hours of downloading, no indication it is every going to end.
I was looking into developing for Ethereum, but after this (ridiculous) the bloat is intolerable.
If ETH nodes cannot sync, this crypto is not worth $375.00.
Sync is out of control.... now Chain Structure is 826000 out of 850000 what on earth is this?
Use myetherwallet and there is no problem. I had similar problems, but found out it was becouse I had bad internet connection.
And if you really want to run a full node (which is great) you can first lauch Mist/EthereumWallet from the cmd.exe (if you're on Windows) using --fast flag. But yeah if you want to run a full node, you should rather have a fiber connection to the Internet (and use Ethernet connexion to your router, not WiFi) and store the chaindata on a SSD.
I've got a fiber connexion at home and a 7200 rpm HDD and I can feel that the HDD have some troubles going here and there to gather all the informations asked by the peers I'm connected with while downloading the information of the missing blocks. And it's a HDD used only to store chaindata, not my system disk.
EDIT: I forgot to mention that now that Swarm is integrated in Mist (since 0.9.0), you've to sync the blockchain data and the data that is stored on your computer by Swarm (normally limited around 25 GB by default). So the first sync time should be longer from the 0.9.0 and the need for performant hardware higher.
Yes. I really want run a full node for learning purposes.
Thanks for sharing this information. I'll definitely take a look at it tomorrow.