00:00:01 I'm not sure what it is. You're getting the blockchain from nodes, not necessarily miners 00:00:20 people generally need a decent connection to mine well 00:00:51 I have a decent connection. There is something not configured correctly I think 01:37:26 sounds like it. check your connections 04:46:53 The bottleneck is likely disk I/O. 15 days sounds like a spinning HDD. Use a SSD, it's *much* faster. 04:51:11 I have an SSD 04:51:57 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. 04:52:38 I'm really new to a lot of this. What is top? 04:53:02 I'm running the monero gui on ubuntu desktop 04:54:22 A program that displays info about processed and performance. 04:54:55 Run it, wait a couple seconds for it to gather data, check the first few lines for hte one with "wa%" in it. 04:59:37 How do you copy that line? When I highlight it it unhighlights when I go to click on it 05:00:01 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 05:00:35 the highest wa it had was 31 or 34 05:00:58 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. 05:01:19 Oh wwow, 31 or 34 wa% is very high. Disk is the bottleneck then. 05:01:49 Strange, it's a SSD drive. 05:01:54 Is your SSD via USB or something ? 05:03:23 Nope, it's straight into the motherboard on SATA2 or SATA3 I think 05:03:49 It's an ATA PNY CS1311 120GB.... ohhhh, geez. Maybe this is the problem. 05:03:51 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 ? 05:03:59 120 gb, I forgot it's small 05:04:21 The full chain is larger than that. A pruned chain would fit though. 05:05:23 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? 05:06:03 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 05:06:32 Just make it a SSD if you want to not wait for a two week download. 05:06:36 It's all fine eitherway. This is me just learning this stuff. 05:07:18 The new location will have to have hte same layout btw, a lmdb directory with data.mdb in. 05:08:03 Also, please continue in #monero if you're going to continue, since we're in the -dev channel atm. 05:08:17 Oh, new to this chatting too 12:20:24 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) 12:21:07 it also shows the different metrics like the buffered speeds and the actual speeds