if you hover over the progress circle do you see the block number increasing? It’s already known that 2.1 syncs up to twice as slow as 2.0.3
I am stuck at block 568006. I have 4 active connections in a Gb network. I will restart NU and see…
On 32bit win7 with a full wallet
blockchain has been sync’ed in the last 30min (so network speed is not a big factor):
nu2.0.3 takes 4.5min to show window 7.5min to sync, 710MB memory (if the bchain is one day old, it would take 20min and 30min, respectively)
nu2.1RC8 takes 2.2min, 2.5min to sync, 270MB
nu2.1 is blazing fast and much less memory hunger.
In coincontrol staked nsr blocks are missing in RC8. they should show in grey-on-red. @sigmike
Did restarting help? Release of 2.1 is imminent so if there’s any issues left to point out it would be great to hear them now.
No. I am still stuck at 568006 after a day!
Should i test it without “testnet” option?
ah… that sounds more like it’s a testnet issue. You might be connected to another node that’s on a fork, or the network has stopped minting. I was worried you were on mainnet. I haven’t used testnet for some time so I can’t say for sure what is causing it. I’m trying to create a bootstrap for mainnet so maybe you want to wait for me to post that before trying on mainnet.
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I am already downloading blockchain in mainnet. Very very slow indeed!
It would be awesome if there was an option to load the bootstrap from inside wallet 
I started from a fresh data file and got past the splash screen (thanks). Been downloading the blockchain for the last 70 hours. Extrapolating the rate indicates it should be done after ~ 100 hours, ie. 30 hours from now. RAM usage is 12% of 4 Gb although the nu client is demanding 50% of the CPU during synch.
I’m trying to build the mainnet bootstrap right now. Will try to share it ASAP.
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B96pmq-lU9NQTUlqYjY5S2xNNzQ/view?usp=sharing
That’s a direct download link to the bootstrap. Just drop it into your Nu data directory and start up 2.1. You should see it say “importing blocks from disk” on the status bar.
I’ve never tried this before but if someone wants to try download through bittorrent below is a link to download a torrent file. If someone could try that out it would be really helpful as well.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B96pmq-lU9NQb0ZoSkpveV9NRms/view?usp=sharing
I’d like to know that these are working for someone else besides me before we release.
Great!
Both links are working. Direct download is faster, for now.
Yeah we need to get some volunteers with bandwidth to help torrent the bootstrap.
In “options” --> main tab it says
"Start Bitcoin on system login"
edit: it is much faster. i am 32 weeks behind already but i don’t like the 700 MB ram!
The memory usage should become lower once it’s finished syncing.
Is liquidity info being reported correctly for everyone on the NuShares vote tab? It should be showing unknown, 1, 2, 3, and total right now.
Joining, will try to keep bittorrent open for a while especially during v2.1 release.
Never mind it appears correctly when fully synced. Not sure why I never noticed that before.
confirm.
after downloading the full blockchain from bootstrap, memory usage remains at 900MB 
win7 64, i will restart the wallet and monitor its behavior.
what operating system? 64, or 32? What if you restart the wallet?
EDIT: I was having the same issue where it was stuck at 900MB after using the bootstrap file. Restarting the cleint and now it uses around 300MB. Seems like a restart is needed after syncing from bootstrap.
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I build 2.1.0RC8 on R-Pi 2 with
cd nubit/
git fetch origin
git tag
git checkout v2.1.0RC8
cd src
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=64M count=16
sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile
make -f makefile.unix
strip nud
chmod 700 nud
Then I copied a tar file of blocks and chainstate made on a sync’ed server to the Pi and untar in the datadir. I have used this method to successfully sync’ed my laptop.
But I get Error opening block database upon start up
…
2016-01-27 14:52:14 init message: Loading block index…
2016-01-27 14:52:14 Opening LevelDB in /XXXX/blocks/index
2016-01-27 14:52:15 Opened LevelDB successfully
2016-01-27 14:52:15 Opening LevelDB in /XXXX/chainstate
2016-01-27 14:52:15 Opened LevelDB successfully
2016-01-27 14:52:15 Nu Network: genesis=0x000003cc2da5a0a289ad nBitsLimit=0x1e0fffff nBitsInitial=0x1e00ffff nStakeMinAge=604800 nCoinbaseMaturity=100 nCoinstak
eMaturity=5000 nModifierInterval=14400
2016-01-27 14:54:35 LoadBlockIndexDB(): last block file = 3
2016-01-27 14:54:35 LoadBlockIndexDB(): last block file info: CBlockFileInfo(blo
cks=118416, size=79083517, heights=599664…717643, time=2015-11-04…2016-01-26
)
2016-01-27 14:54:35 LoadBlockIndexDB(): synchronized checkpoint 11b331cb1e5ba525
fdcd5915aa47ee9dc0ca79337e634beabc7be21b1e23b5b4
2016-01-27 14:54:35 LoadBlockIndexDB(): transaction index enabled
2016-01-27 14:54:35 LoadBlockIndexDB(): hashBestChain=4b6d4c621a37c9e1dd40565da6
ef7f1866b3a69e3441b5c1ef4794a5ad2e7fb0 height=717643 date=2016-01-26 06:14:20
2016-01-27 14:54:35 init message: Verifying blocks…
2016-01-27 14:54:35 Verifying last 288 blocks at level 3
2016-01-27 14:54:37 : Error opening block database.
Do you want to rebuild the block database now?
2016-01-27 14:54:37 Shutdown : In progress…
2016-01-27 14:54:37 Flush(false)
…