only 200k left!!! 2022-04-07 02:58:06.968 I Synced 2397792/2596389 (92%, 198597 left)

gingeropolous: what are you testing? :D

his patience?

its the Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T8100 @ 2.10GHz vs. AMD C-50 sync off, both with 5400 rpm and 2gb ram

gingeropolous: You are syncing blockchain to 5400 RPM HDD? I tried doing that and people in this channel told me to use an SSD and not to bother

anyway monderod totally failed and corrupted the blockchain

for some reason i enjoy getting computers from the scrap heap and seeing if they can sync monero

and yeah littlebobeep , one shouldn't bother with a 5400 rpm drive anymore. this has been going on for close to 2 weeks now

You sure that's not the ETH chain gingeropolous? Sure sounds like it...

I still have a comp that take a 5.25" floppy

5.25" floppy, that's pretty impressive actually

gingeropolous: Ehhh are you really sure the sync is not network constrained? I am pretty sure my network throughput is a lot lower than the SATA bus transfers data to my HDD

littlebobeep: no, it's not network constrained

sync requires random io, bot sequential reads / writes

which is significantly faster on SSDs compared to HDDs

s/bot/not/

selsta: Hmmm okay do you know how I can benchmark random io on my HDD on GNU+Linux?

I would like to compare it to my network throughput

littlebobeep: monero-project/monero #8144#issuecomment-1021636322

i never used this myself and it also won't directly apply to monero, but you can test that

syncing takes ~24h with SSD and multiple weeks with HDD, it's definitely not network constrained

nioc, it'd be fun to try and get monero working on that one

how many 5.25 floppies to store the monero blockchain, and why?

lulz, imagine a tape drive trying to run the blockchain

gingeropolous: yesterday I thru out some tapes for a 1980s style computer system from work that I saved for some unknown reason

I have been reading in the forum recently about "how to distribute the blockchain if Internet goes down", with mesh radio or something... I have been thinking...

Has anybody thought about creating a new (side?)-chain of monero, with 1:1 swap with the main chain, but having like 1 block/hour?

In other words, an extremely slow side-chain, to be used only for very valuable transactions, but with the advantage of being much easier to transmit/synch, for the sake of resiliency.

oh goody. my work win10 laptop is enjoying a reboot loop

garet, how would it be easier to transmit / sync?

if only used for very valuable txns, it's a much more attractive target

yeah, this sidechain would be independently mined (unless a better system kind of merging the mining efforts of mainnchain and sidechain is devleoped).

Clearly, with 1block/hour, getting in the block would be much more expensive.

Also, security also depends on #blocks-to-confirm. It could be 24, making it very hard to attack (a tx would be confirmed only after 24h).

Of course I am just throwing random numbers, but my point would be to have a sort of "core chain" that is more resilient in terms of possibility of transmitting the blockchain under severe internet cuts/censorpship

gingeropolous: easier simply because with 1block/hour, the chain would grow very slowly (assuming of course a cap on the size of blocks comparable to the current ones)

1block/hour would be easy to transmit via radio, mesh networks, bluetooth, etc

oh things are not looking good for this 2016 lenovo

hello world

^ goodbye cruel world

Has anyone heard about this monerotopia thing?

oh nvm. hosting luke smith was a bad call.