Quote from: ScripterRon on February 01, 2018, 02:15:43 PM

Quote from: Jet Cash on February 01, 2018, 12:10:06 PM

The latest core seems to be a lot more efficient.

However, I seem to be having some problems with Windows 10 after the latest upgrade. Sometimes it doesn't find any peers to use, and sometimes it works in burst mode with long gaps between activity. I've more or less decided to revive my old Linux wallet, and move everything into that.

Bring up the Windows Task Manager the next time it seems to be slow. Each time this happens to me, Bitcoin Core is driving the DASD at 100%. I suspect it is LevelDB compacting its database.

Thanks for the suggestion. I've got a netbook running Ubuntu, and an additional external SSD. I ran a second node on it for a few months, but I decided I didn't really need two nodes. I've more or less decided that I'm going to migrate to the netbook for most of my admin and financial work, despite it having a smaller screen. Another incentive is that Brackets ( which I use for web site maintenance ) has released a version which is fully compatible with Linux.