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So this past couple of days once again I've been trying to set up Bitcore on Ubuntu on an older laptop. Of course not enough disk space so I have to use an external SSD, yadda yadda.

Last time I tried, months ago, it was an abject failure. It just isn't something possible.

Last time I was able to modify the files and change the working directories and download the blockchain on the external drive, which took like a week working 24/7, only to have the stupid program restart the download every time it finished.

Boggles my mind that the "Bitcoin community" cares so little to fix something like this which would seem absolutely basic if they really wanted "adoption".

At this stage it seems impossible in practical terms to run your own node unless you shell a lot of cash for off the shelf hardware that let's not full ourselves is otherwise mediocre for what it costs. Nobody likes Bitcoin that much, sorry.

Robin von Mises 1y ago

Which software are you using? I easily managed to get Bitcoin Core run on an old MacBook Air from 2011 running Ubuntu Server. It went smooth.

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hh 1y ago

Fresh Ubuntu 22.04 on a laptop that's a lot newer than that, with an i7 processor (7th gen) and 8 Gb memory. None of the cores is working beyond 20%. Memory usage is around 40%.

Swap is at 99.8%, 2.1 Gb out of 2.1 Gb?

Is this the bottleneck? I've no idea.

hh 1y ago

One thing that really irritates the fuck out of me is that on this Ubuntu at least things are run through Snap. This makes things a lot harder than they should be, because nothing is where it's supposed to be, so it's hard to figure out stuff from reading forums and watching videos.

I'm sure it doesn't really have anything to do with the awfulness of the process itself, but it's not helping, that's for sure.

GrumpyGardener 1y ago

I will say that I always configure my swap to be equal to my ram.

2.1gb seems low to me... But gnome will try to index everything in the background and that uses a ton of resources.

If you're on a fresh install while syncing blocks, it I would expect your resources to be pushing the limits. Doesn't really matter though. Just let it ride. I think it took me 3-4 days to sync to the network with the default settings.

hh 1y ago

I didn't think about setting up the swap, it must have been the OS itself.

So do you reckon making the swap file larger or adding another one may help "convince" it to use more RAM too?

GrumpyGardener 1y ago

Could be. I'm looking at my setup and I have 8gb ram and 16gb swap space.

I'm using 3gb in swap and 2.6 ram.

When you use the top command in terminal, what do you see sucking the resources?