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Why does catching up with the blockchain hammer the disk so much?
by
stakhanov
on 31/03/2012, 15:05:01 UTC
I'm using bitcoin-qt on Arch linux, and catching up from a long time ago. I've noticed that the hard disk is working very hard all the time. It seems pretty fishy to me, since I'm downloading from a pretty slow DSL line, the disk should be working far less than that. What is going on?