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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: Raspberry Pi 4 performance
by
DaveF
on 23/03/2020, 21:18:04 UTC
For those wondering how long it takes to sync,

Code:
2020-03-20T08:17:21Z UpdateTip: new best=0000000000000000000f813e7f23162e1a647cd07a4851f016170f30785259dc height=622126
...
2020-03-20T08:26:35Z UpdateTip: new best=000000000000000000068db6dedd26ae638bf34a7498982483c77b117c4d7769 height=622262

549sec for 136 block

4 seconds per block

622262*4/60/60/24 = 28.8 days, assuming full block + segwit.


That's vague information, can you tell us :
1. Which RPi4 do you use (1, 2 or 4 GB)
2. Do you know if there are any bottleneck (either from slow internet connection or slow storage)?

Yeah, that seems a bit slow. If you are on the high end of hardware.
RPi4 / 4GB / Samsung USB SSD / 300MB connection (before corona and everyone working from home killed my connection)  did if from scratch in under 10 days.
I keep feeling that towards the end of the sync when most block are full a spinning drive just kills performance vs. an SSD

-Dave