📅 Original date posted:2014-03-27
📝 Original message:>
> To be honest, I have not carried out a comprehensive examination of
> server performance. What I can see is that Electrum servers are often
> slowed down when a wallet with a large number (thousands) of addresses
> shows up, and this is caused by disk seeks (especially on my slow VPS).
>
Yes that sounds more like what I expected.
> In terms of bandwidth, I am referring to my Android version of Electrum.
> When it runs on a 3G connection, it sometimes takes up to 1 minute to
> synchronize (with a wallet that has hundreds of addresses). However, I
> have not checked if this was caused by addresses or block headers.
>
An address is 160 bits. (1000 * 160) / 8 / 1024 = 19.5 kilobytes of data
which 3G should be able to transfer in <1 second easily. Of course the
encoding may not be optimal. But if it is, I suspect the issue is elsewhere.
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2023-06-07 15:16:15
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