Topic: Bitcoin 0.8 Client (Read 828 times)
Took me just over 2.5 hours to sync the blockchain from scratch, very impressive!
For now, I setup the new client with an empty wallet. Syncing was fast and my HD light is not on nearly as much any more. I'll probably transfer a few bitcoins over in a few days.
I'm waiting a week or two before installing.
There seem to be many changes in this version. So it's possible there are problems yet undiscovered.
(Well i'm a conservative guy.
)
Since the bitcoin client handles real money I would call that reasonable, not conservative There seem to be many changes in this version. So it's possible there are problems yet undiscovered.
(Well i'm a conservative guy.
)
I'm waiting a week or two before installing.
There seem to be many changes in this version. So it's possible there are problems yet undiscovered.
(Well i'm a conservative guy. )
There seem to be many changes in this version. So it's possible there are problems yet undiscovered.
(Well i'm a conservative guy.
) 
How much faster is syncing?
As a benchmark for those who are interested, I installed 0.8.0 on a 5 year old 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro with 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM and a NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 256 MB graphics processor running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5. The total synchronization time starting on 2013-02-19 was 22 hours, and the total disk space used is 6.4 GB
Disk usage:
Code:
$ pwd; du -h
~/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin
31M ./blocks/index
6.2G ./blocks
193M ./chainstate
10.0M ./database
6.4G .
Quite fast indeed
How much faster is syncing?
I noticed a huge improvement in syncing as well.
Hmm, I might need to get this for my laptop, it hasn't synced even though it was on the past two days.
Yes, and it works. Syncing is much much faster
Has anyone else been using the new test 0.8 client? I keep my wallet on an encrypted drive so the I/O speedup helped me out a lot. https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/experimental-pre-08-builds-for-testing-129861
I downloaded the linux version and ran the prebuilt binary and it converted my entire database to the new format in a couple hours and then synced the rest of my outstanding blocks in what I think was half the time the 0.7 client would have taken.
I downloaded the linux version and ran the prebuilt binary and it converted my entire database to the new format in a couple hours and then synced the rest of my outstanding blocks in what I think was half the time the 0.7 client would have taken.
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