Title: Testnet blockchain download taking forever Post by: Charles Hope on April 08, 2014, 03:03:38 AM Installing bitcoind on a brand new Mac, with plenty of memory, and I set it for testnet. Downloading most of the blockchain has taken 24 hours, but now loading the last two weeks has ground to a snail's pace. My download bandwidth is just over 1Mb.
This is what over 10 minutes of activity looks like: Code: 2014-04-08 02:22:03 ResendWalletTransactions() I know this isn't normal. Is there something I can do to speed this up? Thanks! Title: Re: Testnet blockchain download taking forever Post by: izz on April 09, 2014, 01:36:43 AM It's pretty bad isn't it.
One thing you could try is https://multibit.org/features.html they have a feature that allows it to sync alot faster. You'll just need to figure out how they enable testnet and get going with that. I noticed your using bitcoind though, if its something you want to interface with via RPC calls you will most likely need to wait it out. Title: Re: Testnet blockchain download taking forever Post by: sd on April 10, 2014, 08:26:05 AM I noticed the same thing on testnet yesterday. As far as I could tell there were only 8 testnet nodes out there.
I put a physical server with decent bandwidth on it and left it CPU mining. Now there should be 9 nodes. EDIT: My connection count on testnet is now up to 13. And I CPU mined my first block. Title: Re: Testnet blockchain download taking forever Post by: Charles Hope on April 13, 2014, 12:46:51 AM It was all very strange. Soon after I posted this message, suddenly the network came back to life, and caught me up rather quickly. So now I'm turning on CPU mining, so I can earn some development coins, and also contribute to the other developers out there.
Title: Re: Testnet blockchain download taking forever Post by: -ck on April 13, 2014, 12:53:47 AM Testnet difficulty is too high for cpu mining.
Title: Re: Testnet blockchain download taking forever Post by: thezerg on April 13, 2014, 01:10:54 AM It was all very strange. Soon after I posted this message, suddenly the network came back to life, and caught me up rather quickly. So now I'm turning on CPU mining, so I can earn some development coins, and also contribute to the other developers out there. there are testnet faucets try google Title: Re: Testnet blockchain download taking forever Post by: Charles Hope on April 16, 2014, 10:45:37 PM Testnet difficulty is too high for cpu mining. Yeah, I noticed. Several days and not a single block won. Are people testing GPUs here? Title: Re: Testnet blockchain download taking forever Post by: gmaxwell on April 16, 2014, 11:06:13 PM Testnet difficulty is too high for cpu mining. You can still get the 20 minute blocks from time to time.Title: Re: Testnet blockchain download taking forever Post by: eleuthria on April 17, 2014, 12:17:01 AM Generally when using testnet, it's recommended you use a 'testnet-in-a-box' setup where you have your own private testnet, especially if you're using it to test mining of any kind.
Title: Re: Testnet blockchain download taking forever Post by: TierNolan on April 17, 2014, 12:22:43 PM The newest version of the client has a regression test mode, where it can find a block almost instantly, even with a CPU.
It is like a built in testnet-in-a-box. |