Re: sweet mother of god, the blockchain is HUGE

Quote from: zvs on November 12, 2013, 03:34:43 PM

set maxconns to 1

then connect=5.9.24.81 (and change it back after it's finished)

i have plenty of bandwidth unless some DoS is going on

Hopefully that box is serving the chain from a RAM disk. Bootstrapping a new node from a spinning disk causes a TON of thrashing. SSDs are decent, but DRAM is king.