I had kept the system off for some time to conduct a test.
I just ran
bitcoin-cli getblockcount
and I am 147 blocks behind.
I tried to load my wallet and I got the prompt back within a second. The command just ran as it should, no delays.
Not sure whether it is because earlier my node was lagging behind a lot.
2024-05-12T00:18:00Z [walletnamehere] Wallet completed loading in 1083ms
2024-05-12T00:18:01Z [walletnamehere] setKeyPool.size() = 8000
2024-05-12T00:18:01Z [walletnamehere] mapWallet.size() = 0
2024-05-12T00:18:01Z [walletnamehere] m_address_book.size() = 13
There were no 'rescanning' messages seen, atleast not now.
Pardon my ignorance but what does 'the wallet just needs to be in sync with the node' mean?
Isn't that the same as having the blocks current, because the wallet actually fetches info from my node.
Thanks.