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Title: Bitcoin 0.8 Client Post by: move_zig on February 17, 2013, 11:09:31 PM Has anyone else been using the new test 0.8 client? I keep my wallet on an encrypted drive so the I/O speedup helped me out a lot. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=129861.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=129861.0)
I downloaded the linux version and ran the prebuilt binary and it converted my entire database to the new format in a couple hours and then synced the rest of my outstanding blocks in what I think was half the time the 0.7 client would have taken. Title: Re: Bitcoin 0.8 Client Post by: Gabi on February 17, 2013, 11:12:03 PM Yes, and it works. Syncing is much much faster
Title: Re: Bitcoin 0.8 Client Post by: DiHydro on February 18, 2013, 05:51:44 AM Hmm, I might need to get this for my laptop, it hasn't synced even though it was on the past two days.
Title: Re: Bitcoin 0.8 Client Post by: jrockfever@gmail.com on February 18, 2013, 09:55:36 AM I noticed a huge improvement in syncing as well.
Title: Re: Bitcoin 0.8 Client Post by: jayez on February 21, 2013, 10:39:06 AM How much faster is syncing?
Title: Re: Bitcoin 0.8 Client Post by: hundenapf on February 21, 2013, 10:43:28 AM Quite fast indeed
Title: Re: Bitcoin 0.8 Client Post by: DannyHamilton on February 21, 2013, 12:26:21 PM How much faster is syncing? As a benchmark for those who are interested, I installed 0.8.0 on a 5 year old 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro with 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM and a NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 256 MB graphics processor running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5. The total synchronization time starting on 2013-02-19 was 22 hours, and the total disk space used is 6.4 GB Disk usage: Code: $ pwd; du -h Title: Re: Bitcoin 0.8 Client Post by: InfSys on February 21, 2013, 12:32:39 PM I'm waiting a week or two before installing.
There seem to be many changes in this version. So it's possible there are problems yet undiscovered. (Well i'm a conservative guy. :) ) Title: Re: Bitcoin 0.8 Client Post by: playtin on February 21, 2013, 12:57:46 PM I'm waiting a week or two before installing. Since the bitcoin client handles real money I would call that reasonable, not conservative There seem to be many changes in this version. So it's possible there are problems yet undiscovered. (Well i'm a conservative guy. :) ) Title: Re: Bitcoin 0.8 Client Post by: PRab on February 21, 2013, 03:45:03 PM For now, I setup the new client with an empty wallet. Syncing was fast and my HD light is not on nearly as much any more. I'll probably transfer a few bitcoins over in a few days.
Title: Re: Bitcoin 0.8 Client Post by: MiningBuddy on February 21, 2013, 03:48:06 PM Took me just over 2.5 hours to sync the blockchain from scratch, very impressive! :o
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