I'm not sure what it is. You're getting the blockchain from nodes, not necessarily miners

people generally need a decent connection to mine well

I have a decent connection. There is something not configured correctly I think

sounds like it. check your connections

The bottleneck is likely disk I/O. 15 days sounds like a spinning HDD. Use a SSD, it's *much* faster.

I have an SSD

Run top, check the... third line typically, the one with wa% etc. That'll tell you what's going on, roughly. Paste that line here.

I'm really new to a lot of this. What is top?

I'm running the monero gui on ubuntu desktop

A program that displays info about processed and performance.

Run it, wait a couple seconds for it to gather data, check the first few lines for hte one with "wa%" in it.

How do you copy that line? When I highlight it it unhighlights when I go to click on it

Cpu(s): 2.6 us, 25.8 sy, 0.0 ni, 66.9 id, 4.7 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st

the highest wa it had was 31 or 34

4.7% wa means it's doing some moderate waiting on I/O (disk). It's not *that* high. 25.8 system is weirded. That's (I think) time in syscalls.

Oh wwow, 31 or 34 wa% is very high. Disk is the bottleneck then.

Strange, it's a SSD drive.

Is your SSD via USB or something ?

Nope, it's straight into the motherboard on SATA2 or SATA3 I think

It's an ATA PNY CS1311 120GB.... ohhhh, geez. Maybe this is the problem.

Are you sure it's an SSD ? Like, if you have both SSD and HDD, double check you did put the chain on the SSD ?

120 gb, I forgot it's small

The full chain is larger than that. A pruned chain would fit though.

I have an older 400gb disk hd I can hook up. Would the software be able to transfer what I have downloaded to the classic drive?

You would have to transfer it with your OS' tools, but you can then tell monerod to use a chain wherever it is with --data-dir /path/to/it

Just make it a SSD if you want to not wait for a two week download.

It's all fine eitherway. This is me just learning this stuff.

The new location will have to have hte same layout btw, a lmdb directory with data.mdb in.

Also, please continue in #monero if you're going to continue, since we're in the -dev channel atm.

Oh, new to this chatting too

moneromooo: it's been some hours, i don't know if he's still following but checking the disk i/o in terms of read/write speed, iotop might help him to fetch some useful data. that needs sudo for some years now though. sudo iotop -o -u $USER will show the most relevant stuff (only processes from his user and with active i/o due to -o)

it also shows the different metrics like the buffered speeds and the actual speeds