[Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Bug#700908: Bug#700908: Bug#700908: new upstream version (tag?) (maybe?) available

[Dmitry Smirnov]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 04:58:29 Scott Howard wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Antoine Beaupré <anarcat at debian.org> 
wrote:
> > After a night of testing, I can confirm 0.8 works *much* better. As I
> > was told in #700908, the database storage for blocks has changed, and
> > performs much better.

0.8.0 is much faster indeed. While prior versions needed days to fully 
synchronise with network, 0.8.0 pulled all the data in less than 12 hours.


> > It seems that the old block database is left lying around however, so
> > user intervention is needed to finish the upgrade.
> > 
> > Here I had to rm ~/.bitcoin/blk* to remove duplicate data from the other
> > block database, now stored in ~/.bitcoin/blocks/.
> 
> check out
> contrib/tidy_datadir.sh
> 
> in the source code tree, it should clean up the old blocks
 
Thank you Scott. However with or without removing of old data after import 
Bitcoin-0.8.0 uses both cores of my CPU up to 100% all the time. Interestingly 
enough it hardly does any IO, just consumes a lot of CPU power.

Without old ~/.bitcoin directory Bitcoin-0.8.0 do not use much CPU after full 
synchronisation so there is a serious upgrade issue...

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Regards,
 Dmitry Smirnov
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