~# blocks remaining doubles then drops?

[brubits]

[If there's a way to attach images, I'd post screen shots.?]

Today (and other days) the blocks remaining jumps from ~6800 to ~14500,
and now it's at ~6100.

The last;
receive version message: version 70001, blocks=233433
from debug.log
but on the status shows ' of 225430 blocks of transaction history'

Something wrong or just normal?

[deepceleron]

There is a lot of irrelevant stuff in the log. This is what a block download looks like:

Code:

Committing 446 changed transactions to coin database...
SetBestChain: new best=000000000000001271cfcf276630c89b8c5efb05b714d525cf49ebe2e6ba531b  height=233478  work=1089949624432044523893  tx=16862064  date=2013-04-28 00:10:55
ProcessBlock: ACCEPTED
received block 000000000000010e64ac023847f26c317191da1e3beaafa4d3ac42623bcd856d
Committing 170 changed transactions to coin database...
SetBestChain: new best=000000000000010e64ac023847f26c317191da1e3beaafa4d3ac42623bcd856d  height=233479  work=1089988169328081528408  tx=16862127  date=2013-04-28 00:12:22
ProcessBlock: ACCEPTED
received block 000000000000015bb9d9c0ba36dec83f2aa14692789e121a26c50759917a50c8
Committing 585 changed transactions to coin database...
SetBestChain: new best=000000000000015bb9d9c0ba36dec83f2aa14692789e121a26c50759917a50c8  height=233480  work=1090026714224118532923  tx=16862343  date=2013-04-28 00:21:36
ProcessBlock: ACCEPTED
received block 000000000000017ca936f9d8679a1860b88338c866aca212ae0d75db11d4f65b
Committing 356 changed transactions to coin database...
SetBestChain: new best=000000000000017ca936f9d8679a1860b88338c866aca212ae0d75db11d4f65b  height=233481  work=1090065259120155537438  tx=16862538  date=2013-04-28 00:23:17
ProcessBlock: ACCEPTED
received block 000000000000006213c4d4c2c218c9b4088767600bc514ae3d5428823cc5f7ef

as long as you see continuing block downloads, everything is fine. The number of blocks remaining is obtained from a calculation of the most recent block number from multiple peers - if you don't have enough peers for consensus, or one is sending you bad data, then Bitcoin will use block 216116 as the best height in it's display calculations instead.