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824 sats \ 5 replies \ @021da48107 7 Apr 2023 freebie \ on: Daily discussion thread
Syncing a new bitcoin node at home. It's been going for a few days, and made me think:
Someone should make a system that allows you to run multiple nodes at once all downloading different parts of the blockchain and then puts it all back together. This would allow me to spin up multiple bitcoind instances on different hardware and speed up the initial blockchain download process.
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190 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 7 Apr 2023
That's assuming syncing is CPU bound though. It sounds like you might be network bound.
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33 sats \ 2 replies \ @021da48107 7 Apr 2023
Good point, I'd like to see data on this in general. How much CPU/RAM/IO do you need to saturate a 1 gigabit line for example?
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33 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 7 Apr 2023
I just assumed you were syncing over Tor given the speed, but syncing is normally cpu bound afaik.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @021da48107 8 Apr 2023
Good point, I was syncing over Tor, I didn't think about that as well.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 8 Apr 2023
So sharding but just for setting up your node?
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