are there regular dev meetings

There's meetings every Monday to discuss Seraphis development in #no-wallet-left-behind, and meetings every Wednesday in #monero-research-lab

sweet

hello

<r​4v3r23:monero.social> "...we need to interoperability of wallet2 API. There have been suggestions like rewriting it from scratch or exposing C-style API from wallet2 C++ code."

<r​4v3r23:monero.social> we've got a wrapper around wallet2_api.h that can be called using C api in the works

Any chance this can be a wrapper around wallet2.h instead ? wallet2_api is a pointless wrapper (and one that has a different API even) really.

<r​4v3r23:monero.social> i can check, we are using it to base the new version of our wallet on

<x​fedex:matrix.org> selsta, is there any command to run benchmark ? or i need to sync twice and then compare sync time?

comparing sync time would be best

jeffro256: or did you do a specific benchmark?

<j​effro256:monero.social> My test was pretty rudimentary. I stopped my node with about 1500 blocks left to go, then copied the entire LMDB to a backup folder. Then restarted the node with the master branch, timed the sync, stopped the node, deleted LMDB, recopied from the backup, restarted with the PR branch, then timed again

<x​fedex:matrix.org> without pop_blocks command?

<j​effro256:monero.social> It doesn't have to be 1500 blocks, but that let me sync the node for about 7 minutes

<x​fedex:matrix.org> how about this, doing pop_blocks 5000 from a fully synced node

<j​effro256:monero.social> That honestly might've been way better. I need to check if that erases the popped txs or puts them into the mempool

<j​effro256:monero.social> Because normally popping blocks puts the txs into the mempool, which would maybe give an unfair advantage to the second sync

<b​oog900:monero.social> with default settings monerod syncs most of the way without doing tx verification so the performance difference doing a whole sync could be a lot bigger than just checking the top blocks.

<j​effro256:monero.social> That's true: when downloading checkpointed txs, there's really no computation done except calculating the tx hash. Writing that tx, then reading it, then writing again might take the vast majority of the time to perform compared to non-checkpointed txs

<j​effro256:monero.social> xfedex: But yeah if you want to check sync for the last N blocks, you can do `pop_blocks <N>` and then make sure to follow up with `flush_txpool`, and then you're ready to test!

<t​itotir:matrix.org> Hello everyone. Please tell me is it true that Monero is anonymous and the police cannot track it?

<t​itotir:matrix.org> How anonymous do you think Monero is?

<e​laryan:hackliberty.org> As anonymous as your technical competence allows it to be.

<e​laryan:hackliberty.org> Learn, learn and learn. So that you don't commit noob's mistakes,

<e​laryan:hackliberty.org> but this is not the channel for it

<e​laryan:hackliberty.org> better take a look at #monero:monero.social

<e​rwan00:matrix.org> Hi

<e​rwan00:matrix.org> On the GUI Wallet in simple mode (bootstrap), the filling of my SSD disk was becoming too important, I stopped. I tried to find where the blockchain files that had been downloaded were stored to delete them and free up space on my SSD. I didn't find them in User/Documents/Monero or User/AppData/Roaming/Monero-wallet-gui. I even uninstalled GUI in the hope that it would free up spa<clipped message>

<e​rwan00:matrix.org> ce, but to no avail!

<e​rwan00:matrix.org> So where is the blockchain download hidden?

<e​rwan00:matrix.org> thank you in advance for your help

Try C:\ProgramData\monero\lmdb

<e​rwan00:matrix.org> I don't have a Monero folder in Program data

When you run monerod, it tells you where the db is in the first few lines.

If it is run by monero-wallet-gui automatically, you might be able to see its output somewhere in the settings screen.

Though that would need reinstalling it first.

Or the equivalent of find / -name data.mdb on windows.

<e​rwan00:matrix.org> by searching for lmdb in ProgramaData, I was able to find: it is bitmonero. On the other hand, it's a shame this folder is not present in the information on the settings screen; Thank you anyway for your help

<e​rwan00:matrix.org> I have a second question if you would like. Since reinstalling Gui Wallet I have gone to Simple mode. My restore height is block 2004000. This time the SSD is not overly stressed, but it's been going on for a while and it's not ready to be finished. I thought in this simple mode things were much faster. I am wrong?

Ask in #monero-gui, I am not familiar with what the GUI does and this is the dev channel.

+1

Or #monero-support

<e​rwan00:matrix.org> ok thanks