I have a quick question that i am sure someone has an answer to that will make it all make sense for me.

I recently was able to get re-imported a bunch of old addresses that are still receiving payments from faucets and old affiliate programs, but since the import my client is running at the speed of molasses in January. I know this is not a computer hardware problem because my server is only 2 months old and has 6 top of the line intel CPU's with haswell cores and 128 gig of ECC ram. Way more raw computing power than a person should ever need for pretty much anything.

I have tried, erasing the client and re-installing it, i have the bitcoin client set to the highest priority on 12 cores, i have had a data center engineer friend of my check everything on the hardware config. i have ran through everything on the software side of things, and the speed issue does not make sense. Almost an hour to load the client and half a day to scan the blockchain when i import a new address.

What i would like to know is how businesses like localbitcoins.com blockchain.info, satoshidice and others can manage tens of millions of addresses before they start having "bloated" wallet issues?

Is there a better client for this than using bitcoin QT and bitcoind directly?
Is there some sort of setting i am overlooking?
What am i missing?


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