Re: RFC: ship block chain 1-74000 with release tarballs?
Re: RFC: ship block chain 1-74000 with release tarballs?
Date: November 29, 2010
Source: BitcoinTalk Forum
URL: https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/posts/bitcointalk/520/
It seems like you're inclined to assume everything is wrong more than is actually so.
Writing the block index is light work. Building the tx index is much more random access per block. I suspect reading all the prev txins is what's slow. Read caching would help that. It's best if the DB does that. Maybe it has a setting for how much cache memory to use.
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