I successfully completed the update in the early hours of this morning, and it’s working fine. At some point, I was wondering what extra benefits this latest version (v29.0) offers, until I noticed that the "progress increase per hour" shows a better percentage improvement compared to the previous version. Though, I strongly believe that my device specifications aren't high enough, and the process doesn't seem entirely efficient or smooth. I would like to know what additional benefits the latest version offers. Does it work more efficiently with the allocated dbcache, or it does something different?.
If your RAM permits, you should increase the size of the dbcache setting to further speed up your device with v29.0 if you have at least 4GB of RAM you should ideally set dbcache=2048 (2 GB) in your configuration file if not, it's safer to set it to about 512 MB this significantly reduces slow disc reads by allowing more of the blockchain data to remain in memory to save resources reduce resourceintensive features like indexing and background apps while syncing ,to speed up processing if you have multiple CPU cores, use par=2 or par=3 to enable parallel validation threads, if your client permits it. syncing and validation on an SSD are significantly faster than on a disc even though dbcache helps lower disc pressure