Jack D on Nostr: CPU is def not the bottleneck for chain sync anymore. Seems maybe more of a disk i/o ...
CPU is def not the bottleneck for chain sync anymore. Seems maybe more of a disk i/o issue. Bitcoin core does this weird dance on load external (blocks already in file) that seems to not efficiently use disk. I seem to have hit a wall of no additional improvement despite upgrading.
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