Slow sync

[djpnewton]

I have started this beside my testnet node. It seems very slow to sync. It was fast until about block 170,000 now after 24 hours its at block ~207,000.

[username1565]

Yeap, this is slow, and depending from added tickers, as I understand...

Developers!
Do you have downlodable datafeed.dat to make synchronization faster?
Something like there: http://blockchain.wavesnodes.com/
is exists the tar-archive, to just unpack it according this guide,
or binary files to import blocks from there, according this guide...

[username1565]

bump!

[schwab]

I'm having the same issue. Now that there are > 3 million blocks it takes a very long time to sync. I'm only 1/10th of that way through after waiting almost a whole day. From what I can tell it's only updating every 200msec (based on the log). However, it's hardly even touching the cpu. So, how can we reduce the delay between blocks? Note I'm using a locally hosted node which is in sync, so the http call to has almost no delay at all.

[schwab]

Never-mind on reducing the delay between blocks. Looks like somewhere near block 300,000 or so it gets even slower, to the point that we are only waiting on the data from the node. This happens because it makes a call to /addresses/balance and assets/balance/ for every asset in the list. As the number of assets in the block chain grows, the number of calls needed between the wdf and the waves node increases to the point that each block takes 10sec or more to get all it's data. Thus the 200msec is no longer the bottle neck. I think the only real tenable solution would be to have datafeed.dat file available for download in some form like @username1565 username1565 said to save us from this massive syncing dilema.