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Bitcoin => Development & Technical Discussion => Topic started by: rupy on December 18, 2012, 11:05:46 PM



Title: Default client IO
Post by: rupy on December 18, 2012, 11:05:46 PM
The other day my servers HDD light was lit up like a Christmas tree, and since I have a SSD, I found bitcoin to be the problem and nuked it... which resulted in an error being thrown, I use an old client so this has probably been fixed already, but why is the adding of blocks so IO intensive?

Edit: And here I'm not concerned with reads, but writes! They wear the SSD...


Title: Re: Default client IO
Post by: Pieter Wuille on December 18, 2012, 11:39:35 PM
0.8 will do a lot less writes.