-reindex-chainstate frequent extended pauses

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Quote from: callmejoe on May 21, 2019, 12:23:42 PM

any reason it didnt utilize all the processing power available from the beginning?

Without data/log, i only can speculate :
1. Your sync (download) speed become faster, which makes more blocks need to be verified quickly.
2. More "recent" blocks have bigger size which leads to longer verification. Additionally, not all transaction have linear verification time/O(n), but quadratic/O(n^2)

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ok im at block 536,258...in the home stretch....

the whole time this has been reindexing the process used 1-2 cores of 4 and maybe got up to 25% of CPU. now it seems suddenly all 4 cores are being used at 95%+ and has really sped up going through the blocks.

any reason it didnt utilize all the processing power available from the beginning?

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Just be patient, RPi is barebone PC and there's nothing much you could do.

But if you're not patient, there are few options :
1. Tweak dbcache, maxsigcachesize & rpcthreads value on start-up parameter or bitcoin.conf file. Not recommended because you could encounter "Out of memory" problem
2. Overclock CPU & RAM. Also not recommended for obvious reason.
3. Store whole Bitcoin folder on SSD. But, AFAIK there's major bottleneck from CPU/RAM and IMO you won't see any significant performance difference.

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Quote from: DaveF on May 18, 2019, 08:34:47 AM

Short version. No.

Remember, it's a RPi, it's slow with not a lot of ram and horrible I/O speeds.
If this is the same machine from your last post you have everything running on an SD card, which is going to make it even slower.

-Dave

yes same machine. i am going to try to be patient with this. i just was hoping i can stop these 40 minute "work stoppages" at a time.

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Short version. No.

Remember, it's a RPi, it's slow with not a lot of ram and horrible I/O speeds.
If this is the same machine from your last post you have everything running on an SD card, which is going to make it even slower.

-Dave

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i've been running a -reindex-chainstate the last several days on my raspberry pi. i've noticed it stops updating for 40 minutes at a time frequently. from looking at the debug.log i see socket timeouts at 2300-2400s which is about 40 minutes. and the timestamp from 2 consecutive block updates are 40 minutes apart.

am i reading this right? and any way to shorten the timeout period?

Code:

2019-05-18T02:52:29Z UpdateTip: new best=0000000000000000012c181fce4f2ec065c3eb773cccc5d72251c2595a038fe9 height=479717 version=0x20000012 log2_work=86.904758 tx=244935503 date='2017-08-08T20:58:30Z' progress=0.624972 cache=726.0MiB(6524861txo)
2019-05-18T03:31:05Z UpdateTip: new best=000000000000000000221493a90a785c16e72ccd48733c4e08231a50ae331480 height=479718 version=0x20000002 log2_work=86.904794 tx=244937679 date='2017-08-08T21:11:39Z' progress=0.624968 cache=28.8MiB(0txo)
2019-05-18T03:31:06Z Potential stale tip detected, will try using extra outbound peer (last tip update: 2364 seconds ago)
2019-05-18T03:31:07Z socket sending timeout: 2378s
2019-05-18T03:31:07Z ping timeout: 3207.307425s
2019-05-18T03:31:07Z ping timeout: 2862.919345s
2019-05-18T03:31:07Z socket sending timeout: 2450s
2019-05-18T03:31:07Z socket sending timeout: 2472s
2019-05-18T03:31:07Z socket sending timeout: 2377s
2019-05-18T03:31:07Z socket sending timeout: 2365s
2019-05-18T03:31:07Z socket send error Broken pipe (32)
2019-05-18T03:31:10Z New outbound peer connected: version: 70014, blocks=576547, peer=3828
2019-05-18T03:31:10Z New outbound peer connected: version: 70015, blocks=576547, peer=3843
2019-05-18T03:31:11Z New outbound peer connected: version: 70015, blocks=576547, peer=3858
2019-05-18T03:31:11Z socket send error Broken pipe (32)
2019-05-18T03:31:12Z New outbound peer connected: version: 70015, blocks=576547, peer=3876
2019-05-18T03:31:13Z New outbound peer connected: version: 70015, blocks=576547, peer=3892
2019-05-18T03:31:39Z UpdateTip: new best=0000000000000000013e89971ec0f1bdd43cc31aeb82a2491149340f76aaa07b height=479719 version=0x20000002 log2_work=86.904831 tx=244939945 date='2017-08-08T21:22:13Z' progress=0.624974 cache=29.8MiB(9308txo)
2019-05-18T03:32:14Z UpdateTip: new best=0000000000000000013236ef38095c2c129f839ea7283a65640fa5fdd859e282 height=479720 version=0x20000012 log2_work=86.904868 tx=244942106 date='2017-08-08T21:36:51Z' progress=0.624979 cache=30.7MiB(17540txo)
2019-05-18T03:32:31Z UpdateTip: new best=000000000000000000a64e454307e39e6ec4a9a5730e0f906819d1508e1011a8 height=479721 version=0x20000002 log2_work=86.904905 tx=244944571 date='2017-08-08T21:55:37Z' progress=0.624986 cache=31.5MiB(24592txo)

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