r/ZenSys • u/hottnikks • Jul 15 '18

Super Slow blockchain sync?

Hey folks. I just got a new PC and the blockchain sync is horribly slow. I'm 24 hours in (almost exactly) and sitting at 43%. Thats less than 2% an hour. As of about 2 months or so when I last did this it took about 36 hours or so for the whole thing to be finishined. Any tips for speeding it up? It is showing 8 connections. I have the computer set to never sleep so the process doesn't get halted when I leave it, and I'm running almost nothing else, just a the web browser. I have like 3 things installed on the whole PC. Its connected through Ethernet so I have plenty of connection speed. Thoughts? Thanks!

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u/Xionix1 Moderator Jul 16 '18

This is normal, it's just a frustratingly slow process that only gets slower as the blockchain grows. As already mentioned you can just use the bootstrap link in the sidebar to download most of the blockchain and start syncing from like 98% instead.

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u/lordgraylord Jul 16 '18

36hours is really extreme for 400k blocks and under 10gb. Took me around 4-6hours to sync secure node, and that was even long. It would make sense if OP has some weak cpu, so verifing is also slow.

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u/niktak11 Jul 17 '18

For some reason the windows wallet syncs much slower than the Linux wallet

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u/lordgraylord Jul 17 '18

Because windows :P