it just has got 9% of the blockchain in total. why is this slow as hell?
From what I've seen you can improve performance by:
- Using SSD instead of HDD
- Having 16 GB RAM
- Setting dbcache (database cache) to 4096
- Using Linux instead of Windows (I've never tested Windows myself)
- Having a fast CPU if that becomes the new bottleneck
- Enough bandwidth tot download 350 GB in a few hours