I'm attempting to set up a fully operational mainnet node. Using bitcoin, the initial download is successful up to a cache size of about 600 MiB. And then it goes down.
I have to start over because the full 600MiB has been wasted.
Are you perhaps talking about "
prune block storage" size?
Because losing cached data wont be much of an issue and wont cause your node to restart IBD unless the actual data written on disk were corrupted.
Or is it the cached data of your VMWare?
In that case, it's more of a Virtual Machine specific issue than Bitcoin Core.
I looked through the debug.log, but there were no discrepancies that would have indicated why the accident occurred.
Can you share your logs?
You can paste the latest session inside [code][/code] tags,
just remove the unnecessary repeating lines (
e.g. "new tip") and those that you think are private info (
e.g. PC Username).
