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apotheon
wow
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apotheon
already up to Mochi102 again
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apotheon
How soon does Mochi103 happen?
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alMalsamo
selsta: Can I configure pruned blockchain WHILE I am downloading like BTC supports or do I need to download the full blockchain to disk and THEN prune it?
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nioc
alMalsamo: set pruning while downloading the blockchain
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nioc
it's the only way to actually save the space
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Bill48105
right or you end up with it bigger than necessary if you turn on after unless you manually shrink it after
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nioc
if you prune afterwards it doesn't reduce the size but it does prevent it from growing
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nioc
until the pruned chain grows to the size of the regular chain that you started with
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alMalsamo
nioc: How do I configure this?
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alMalsamo
Also why wouldn't pruning after downloading the full blockchain reduce the size?
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nioc
I only use the CLI and know that there is a flag to use at initial startup but don't remember
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nioc
it is persistent so you only need to use the flag the first time
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nioc
as to why, I have no idea :)
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nioc
for sure selsta will know
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nioc
know all the things :D
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Bill48105
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selsta
alMalsamo: --prune-blockchain
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selsta
you only have to use the flag once
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selsta
then it will stay pruned
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selsta
ok nioc wrote that already :D
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Bill48105
well there's ./monero-blockchain-prune too which is what i was referring to earlier
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nioc
confirmation is good
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Bill48105
but you need enough free space to copy the existing in place
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Bill48105
enabling pruning is is different than actually pruning it
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Bill48105
thus --prune-blockchain (enable pruning only needed once as it saves the setting) vs monero-blockchain-prune (prune/shrink it by doing copy)
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Bill48105
i'm no guru but that's my understanding of it
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Bill48105
souce: doing both myself
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Bill48105
source even
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Bill48105
issue with monero-blockchain-prune is if you seek pruning because you ran out of disk space already lol
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selsta
usually it's easier to delete the chain and resync from scratch with --prune-blockchain
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selsta
the separate blockchain prune tool takes ages
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Bill48105
that was me :D and didn't have enough free space to prune/shrink it so i had to migrate wallet to another drive then prune
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Bill48105
and yes it took overnight
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Mochi102
use the pruning tool and it does reduce the size
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Mochi102
but yeah, it makes a copy, so you need a lot of space
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Mochi102
I pruned it locally on my windows machine and then uploaded it to my ubuntu server once pruned
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Mochi102
locally I run a full chain and on my server I run it pruned
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Mochi102
apotheon, Mochi103 might be here soon.
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apotheon
Mochi102: good to know; thanks for the warning
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Bill48105
warning whoop whoop lol
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narf
nipples
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narf
whoops wrong chan
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narf
lol
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Bill48105
sure.. wrong channel.. yeah.. uhuh.. lll
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pmp
Hello there. Does anyone know where I could get help with setting up a node on Gentoo? I am not sure if this is the right channel.
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Steven_M
one of my tx's failed to send and the wallet didn't say why?
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Steven_M
s/one of my tx's failed to send and the wallet didn't say why?/one of my tx's failed to send and the wallet didn't say why.
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Bill48105
how do you know i failed if it didn't tell you? did you check the logs
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Bill48105
how was it you sent (using what)
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badjabber
Steven_M if your local daemon failed to broadcast the tx (it never appeared on xmrchain.net mempool for example) you might be able to force it to broadcast the tx with relay_tx
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badjabber
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badjabber
^that might help for getting there from the gui. If you are using cli for daemon then relay_tx <txid> should force it to broadcast hopefully
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Steven_M
badjabber: okay, thank you. :)
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alMalsamo
2022-02-12 11:24:05.363 I Synced 77728/2557806 (3%, 2480078 left, 0% of total synced, estimated 8.8 days left)
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alMalsamo
Is this really gunna take 8.8 days, how much can I trust this output from monerod?
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merope
alMalsamo: might even take you longer... hope you're not using an hdd to sync, they are extremely slow at random reads (which sync uses very heavily)
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merope
Use an ssd for the initial sync if you can, it speeds things up massively
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merope
And then move the chain back to the hdd once you're done syncing and just need to keep up
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merope
Maybe consider enabling pruning, which reduces the stored blockchain size to almost 1/3 (50GB instead of 120GB)
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alMalsamo
merope: Yeah HDD unfortunately, I have a new 2TB 2.5" SSD and 1TB mSATA SSD right next to me on the desk but I haven't installed them yet
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alMalsamo
Also I did enable pruning with CLI switch I don't have enough space to store the full chain
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alMalsamo
2022-02-12 16:04:52.668 I Synced 419680/2557947 (16%, 2138267 left, 14% of total synced, estimated 10.6 days left)
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alMalsamo
I went from 3% to 14% in ~5 hours, how could it be that the rest will take a full 10+ days?
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moneromooo
The start of the chain is light. Few txes.
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moneromooo
The percentage is based off height.
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selsta
the estimated time remaining is quite inaccurate
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selsta
for full chain sync at least, when only syncing a couple thousand blocks it is accurate
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alMalsamo
selsta: Well I have to do a full chain sync to initialize my node right, even though I enabled pruning (because it still has to download the full cahin even when pruned)?
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selsta
basically yes, I just meant that the estimated time remaining will be a bit inaccurate
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moneromooo
You can use --synced-pruned-blocks, it'll save bandwidth, but probably not time.
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alMalsamo
moneromooo: Hmm well I already started this process with just monerod --data-dir /mnt/monero --prune-blockchain so it is probably too late to add --synced-pruned-blocks, right?