Topic: How long to download Ethereum Blockchain? (Read 15069 times)
I haven't tried downloading one for myself before, but from what I have seen and read previously, I think that it is only normal for this to happen. It is normal for it to be quite slow and what's not. just be patient. Go get some sleep, or do something else, and I bet the download would be completed by the time you are back.
So I downloaded the Ethereum-Wallet(MIST) because I want to get into altcoins as well as Bitcoin.
When I started the Wallet, it started downloading the Ethereum Blockchain. This is more then
24h ago at it seems the closer I get to finish downloading the whole thing the slower the download
gets.
I mean it's getting ridiciulous with this massive blockchain downloads and the wiaitng time,
especially because I download around 15GB so far. 15GB I could download in less than an hour
so why does this take so long with these blockchains I thought its like a p2p download,
Shouldn't it be pretty fast?
And o another note the number of total Blocks seem to be changing while downloading. I wouldn't
have been surprised if it would grow bigger because of more transactions in the blockchain etc.
but it is jumping frim 1,480,000ish to 1,580,000ish Blocks... back and forth...
I'm relatively new to the cryptocoin-world so forgive me if some of these questions seem ignorant or naive.
Thanks!
BTC Gambler
Ethereum will die before you finish When I started the Wallet, it started downloading the Ethereum Blockchain. This is more then
24h ago at it seems the closer I get to finish downloading the whole thing the slower the download
gets.
I mean it's getting ridiciulous with this massive blockchain downloads and the wiaitng time,
especially because I download around 15GB so far. 15GB I could download in less than an hour
so why does this take so long with these blockchains I thought its like a p2p download,
Shouldn't it be pretty fast?
And o another note the number of total Blocks seem to be changing while downloading. I wouldn't
have been surprised if it would grow bigger because of more transactions in the blockchain etc.
but it is jumping frim 1,480,000ish to 1,580,000ish Blocks... back and forth...
I'm relatively new to the cryptocoin-world so forgive me if some of these questions seem ignorant or naive.
Thanks!
BTC Gambler
it's better to use a online wallet!
download the Ethereum Blockchain should be 2 days
lol
download the Ethereum Blockchain should be 2 days
lol
You need to download Geth (or locate it in your Mist installation).
Navigate to the folder with Geth in the command line line.
geth removedb (to remove partial blockchain).
geth --fast --cache=1024 (basically trims most of the data you don't need - should take 3 - 6 hours to sync).
Navigate to the folder with Geth in the command line line.
geth removedb (to remove partial blockchain).
geth --fast --cache=1024 (basically trims most of the data you don't need - should take 3 - 6 hours to sync).
hi guys,
I've been syncing for ~7 hours.
Here's a screenshot:
Two questions:
1. Is it normal to only have 2-3 peers connected?
2. why is the chain structure percentage progress counted backwards?
I've been syncing for ~7 hours.
Here's a screenshot:
Two questions:
1. Is it normal to only have 2-3 peers connected?
2. why is the chain structure percentage progress counted backwards?
Taking several days to get the entire blockchain is normal. Just be patient.
hi guys,
I've been syncing for ~7 hours.
Here's a screenshot:
Two questions:
1. Is it normal to only have 2-3 peers connected?
2. why is the chain structure percentage progress counted backwards?
I've been syncing for ~7 hours.
Here's a screenshot:
Two questions:
1. Is it normal to only have 2-3 peers connected?
2. why is the chain structure percentage progress counted backwards?
So I downloaded the Ethereum-Wallet(MIST) because I want to get into altcoins as well as Bitcoin.
When I started the Wallet, it started downloading the Ethereum Blockchain. This is more then
24h ago at it seems the closer I get to finish downloading the whole thing the slower the download
gets.
I mean it's getting ridiciulous with this massive blockchain downloads and the wiaitng time,
especially because I download around 15GB so far. 15GB I could download in less than an hour
so why does this take so long with these blockchains I thought its like a p2p download,
Shouldn't it be pretty fast?
And o another note the number of total Blocks seem to be changing while downloading. I wouldn't
have been surprised if it would grow bigger because of more transactions in the blockchain etc.
but it is jumping frim 1,480,000ish to 1,580,000ish Blocks... back and forth...
I'm relatively new to the cryptocoin-world so forgive me if some of these questions seem ignorant or naive.
Thanks!
BTC Gambler
When I started the Wallet, it started downloading the Ethereum Blockchain. This is more then
24h ago at it seems the closer I get to finish downloading the whole thing the slower the download
gets.
I mean it's getting ridiciulous with this massive blockchain downloads and the wiaitng time,
especially because I download around 15GB so far. 15GB I could download in less than an hour
so why does this take so long with these blockchains I thought its like a p2p download,
Shouldn't it be pretty fast?
And o another note the number of total Blocks seem to be changing while downloading. I wouldn't
have been surprised if it would grow bigger because of more transactions in the blockchain etc.
but it is jumping frim 1,480,000ish to 1,580,000ish Blocks... back and forth...
I'm relatively new to the cryptocoin-world so forgive me if some of these questions seem ignorant or naive.
Thanks!
BTC Gambler
Just wait Metropolis update protocol and grab your light client afterall
for a decent connection or a decent streaming video connection,
in 5 more years you will need 5tb hard drive and a few months to download eth blockchain.
in 50 years you will need 1petabyte and 1 year to download eth blockchain.
or just using an unsafe, choked, clogged third party lite client which can disappearing with all your eth.
in 5 more years you will need 5tb hard drive and a few months to download eth blockchain.
in 50 years you will need 1petabyte and 1 year to download eth blockchain.
or just using an unsafe, choked, clogged third party lite client which can disappearing with all your eth.
Just as a datum, I started for the first time the Ethereum app on Thursday the 8th of June and I am still downloading the blockchain today on the 13th of June (and nothing is wrong with my internet connection). According to calculations I am at about 90% from completion and actually downloading at a rate of 0.17% blockchain per hour. Calculated prediction for 100% completion is putting me to the 17th of June, and that is if it stays at 0.17% blockchain/hour. Since start, it went from 5% per hour down to now 0.17%. This is ridiculously slow and completely nonsense. Just imagine what its gonna be when the blockchain attain 10 millions blocks. This is a total joke! And, this is my third attempt at completing the whole blockchain. The two previous ones were stopped because I thought my computer and or Ethereum installation was something wrong. I now am confident that everything is operating normally (according to posted information and research) and that I must be submitted to this ridiculously slow installation. After the whole 8 or 9 days (I hope) of installation I will be a happy owner of a tedious Ethereum blockchain.
Just be patient guys!
Just be patient guys!
maybe you should check your processor and internet connection
why?
maybe you should check your processor and internet connection
How do you know blockchain is downloaded and synced?
Running Geth 1.6.4 with flags --fast --cache=1024 (Windows 10).
Screenshot: https://ibb.co/gMVQyF
Running Geth 1.6.4 with flags --fast --cache=1024 (Windows 10).
Screenshot: https://ibb.co/gMVQyF
ETH is a ridicolous blockchain to download
Tonight I made an attempt, the estimation of download time required was 47 years
I give up and closed that clowny wallet just because my estimation is that my laptop should die before me haha
I am quite confused here so you are saying that this was wrong estimation or correct one? Tonight I made an attempt, the estimation of download time required was 47 years
I give up and closed that clowny wallet just because my estimation is that my laptop should die before me hahaHow Ethereum's blockchain despite being smaller in size (it is only 16 GB AFAIK) than bitcoin's blockchain is so hard to download?
indeed often it happens you download 30k of blockchain but the target refresh itself of 100kbetter to use myetherwallet instead a typical physical software wallet
ETH is a ridicolous blockchain to download
Tonight I made an attempt, the estimation of download time required was 47 years I give up and closed that clowny wallet just because my estimation is that my laptop should die before me haha
I am quite confused here so you are saying that this was wrong estimation or correct one? Tonight I made an attempt, the estimation of download time required was 47 years
I give up and closed that clowny wallet just because my estimation is that my laptop should die before me hahaHow Ethereum's blockchain despite being smaller in size (it is only 16 GB AFAIK) than bitcoin's blockchain is so hard to download?
ETH is a ridicolous blockchain to download
Tonight I made an attempt, the estimation of download time required was 47 years I give up and closed that clowny wallet just because my estimation is that my laptop should die before me haha
Tonight I made an attempt, the estimation of download time required was 47 years
I give up and closed that clowny wallet just because my estimation is that my laptop should die before me haha 
been trying to download the blockchain now for like 2 days (ok .. im on a bit of a slow internet connection) but it did finish all the 2,4xx,xxx and then it started giving me this:
is it starting from the beginning again?! and this is going at much slower rate than it did before?!
btw .... thats ETC not ETH
Code:
I1013 18:23:23.760960 core/blockchain.go:963] imported 13 block(s) (0 queued 0 ignored) including 0 txs in 2.139247661s. #10744 [94def6db / 0cad54b5]
I1013 18:23:28.335455 core/blockchain.go:963] imported 83 block(s) (0 queued 0 ignored) including 0 txs in 4.572811035s. #10827 [b9cb7627 / b25aa278]
I1013 18:24:37.184374 core/blockchain.go:963] imported 1442 block(s) (0 queued 0 ignored) including 0 txs in 1m8.832837271s. #12269 [817a9972 / bae636f1]
I1013 18:26:05.196956 core/blockchain.go:963] imported 2048 block(s) (0 queued 0 ignored) including 0 txs in 1m27.937069128s. #14317 [f142f2e4 / f161e26e]
I1013 18:23:28.335455 core/blockchain.go:963] imported 83 block(s) (0 queued 0 ignored) including 0 txs in 4.572811035s. #10827 [b9cb7627 / b25aa278]
I1013 18:24:37.184374 core/blockchain.go:963] imported 1442 block(s) (0 queued 0 ignored) including 0 txs in 1m8.832837271s. #12269 [817a9972 / bae636f1]
I1013 18:26:05.196956 core/blockchain.go:963] imported 2048 block(s) (0 queued 0 ignored) including 0 txs in 1m27.937069128s. #14317 [f142f2e4 / f161e26e]
is it starting from the beginning again?! and this is going at much slower rate than it did before?!
btw .... thats ETC not ETH
So I can confirm that if you are having syncing issues with the gui client, directly running geth seems to solve that (and be faster).
Sometimes it is hard to imagine how some of these platforms will become "mainstream" as they advertise. Do the development teams of each really believe their platforms will become really useful for the real world? How will they overcome the technical difficulties? To use Ethereum as an example it is only around 1 or 2 years and yet the blockchain is already over 15gb. There isn't even 1 million users in the system yet doing 100's of thousands of transactions per minute yet.
Sometimes it feels like the are just playing around and being naive about what they believe.
Lol, 15GB would be a problem in 2000s, not 2016. 1TB hdd costs 50 euro. Do you really believe people that are going to use blockchain technology stick with computers worth 100$ each ? 4k bluray movies have 40GB + .Sometimes it feels like the are just playing around and being naive about what they believe.
In the meantime, one of the many latest news https://consensys.net/static/BlockApps-Minsheng-Consensys.pdf . So i wonder, what are these giant companies that are actively working on ethereum do about it's size, that's definitely a problem, NOT.
Just read the ethereum latest news, at this rate price growth will be sustained by usage in 1 to 2 years, there's just too many news.
so, I navigated to where geth (CLI interface) and manually ran it with this:
Code:
./geth --fast --cache=256
and it finished syncing after a few hours, this was with a fast (100+ Mbps network and an ssd), but non of the run away memory issues I was facing with the main client when trying to do the initial sync. You could use a larger cache and see if it speeds it up more (value is in MB).
Same boat here, I'm back to the original 4gb of ram on my mac till I can rma my other sticks. I let it run overnight and I came back to 40 GB of swap according to the activity monitor... I've now launched with the command line and am trying to limit the cache size... not quite sure if it is working though, swap is slowly growing... I was also under the impression that the --fast option was effectively a p2p download and reduced the verification. This part of the setup is definitely not good, I may try to restore an old setup from a backup before my reinstall to see if I can get the sync to not be as memory intensive. For ethereum they will need to develop some sort of distributed pruning if they want to have the blockchain companies (companies pay for the storage that they use, otherwise they are pruned) because these companies will lead to extra bloat... that and ram prices aren't dropping as fast as storage prices so there needs to be some changes in that department.
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