2020-12-11 09:24:43
the node syncing is fairly slow vs. many other coins - is that mostly to do with the low amount of nodes in the network?
it’s not saturating cpu, network or disk

Rotonen
2020-12-11 15:47:37
yeah, most likely because there is no look ahead

Fireduck
2020-12-11 15:48:00
it doesn't request the next block until it validates and saves the block before it

Fireduck
2020-12-11 15:48:21
which is good for the general keeping up with the network phase and not wasting bandwidth on nonsense

Fireduck
2020-12-11 15:48:35
but for a quick catchup, it is dominated by network latency

Fireduck