Received: from sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.193] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-2.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1WXEr4-00039G-J5 for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 07 Apr 2014 19:05:14 +0000 X-ACL-Warn: Received: from mxin.ulb.ac.be ([164.15.128.112]) by sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) id 1WXEr2-0003XN-Ue for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 07 Apr 2014 19:05:14 +0000 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApMBAETuQlPVMepA/2dsb2JhbAANTMgyCoFAgxkBAQEDAXgGCwshFg8JAwIBAgFFBgEMCAEBh22pAaMPF454hDgBA5hbhjqKG4Uc Received: from ip-213-49-234-64.dsl.scarlet.be (HELO [192.168.23.187]) ([213.49.234.64]) by smtp.ulb.ac.be with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA; 07 Apr 2014 20:30:18 +0200 Message-ID: <5342EEAF.2040906@xylon.de> Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 20:30:07 +0200 From: Arne Brutschy User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Justus Ranvier , Bitcoin Dev References: <5342C833.5030906@gmail.com> <5342D1DB.8060203@monetize.io> <5342D9FA.8080102@monetize.io> <5342E54D.9050105@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5342E54D.9050105@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. X-Headers-End: 1WXEr2-0003XN-Ue Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Why are we bleeding nodes? X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 19:05:14 -0000 > The bottleneck is not bulk disk space, but rather IOPS. Exactly. I stopped running a full node on both of my desktops machines in the last month. Both systems were simply becoming very noticeable (=unbearably) sluggish. I am also running dedicated nodes, which are fine, but on a desktop latency is a major issue (or, let's say, a different issue than on a server). I didn't notice any network latency, but that's hard to judge as our internet is pants anyway. Arne PS: my machines aren't the newest, but still do a stellar job (without bitcoind running ;)