01:21:35 <geonic> https://reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/xyv6v5/_/is9qvt9/ <- if anyone has other ideas for this guy
10:38:29 <immibis_> since 0.18 and the corresponding block update, monero has been syncing at ~100 blocks per second on a spinning drive. That's crazy fast but should I be concerned it's not verifying correctly?
10:38:35 <immibis_> because that's only time for like 1-2 disk seeks per block
10:54:18 <immibis_> ok now it slowed down. maybe there were just a lot of blocks with no transactions while people upgraded their software
11:04:08 <moneromooo> You can use print_bc, it'll print the number of txes in the input range.
11:16:53 <immibis_> no difference. dunno then
11:17:00 <selsta> immibis_: we added new checkpoints int the last release
11:17:10 <selsta> so all blocks until 2-3 weeks ago should sync faster
11:17:35 <immibis_> could be it
11:17:46 <immibis_> ... does that mean most of the time spent syncing is just verifying PoW then?
11:18:11 <selsta> verifying pow gets skipped on blocks with known hashes
11:18:17 <immibis_> memory requirement seems to be down as well
11:18:29 <selsta> but not sure if that's what you are seeing
12:33:56 <hyc> new checkpoints each release definitely has that impact
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