Are you using an HDD or an SSD? Sync time is largely dependent on what kind of system you use and whether you use an SSD or HDD.

Forgot to answer this. Anyway, everyone, even newbies, is entitled to make a pull request to website to either update existing documentation or creating new documentation. Other contributors could make remarks on the pull request and suggest edits. Of course, you are correct that some knowledge is needed to work on documentation. In addition, like phishead said, in an open source project there is no central authority responsible for creating documentation. Hence, it's up to the contributors and community to create and maintain documentation.


See smooth and nioc's answers.

It could be that an HDD with a slow writing speed is the root cause of your issue.

Tried this. Seems to be even slower.



About three years. SSD is brand new.

Internet connection is through Mobile phone. I should use fixed cable internet connection?

Perc 6i raid 5 ~300MBs

Media as always is profit oriented. They always have the motives on every reports and articles. Some are true, some are not and some just to create hype and sometimes just to FUD. When I buy/sell coins I always try to have more sources sometimes at least the coin's official twitter (no negative news) and here in bitcointalk (positive and negative).

thx, yup adaptive read ahead and write through is my setup. 512MB cache doesn't seem to matter either. I will be upgrading to ryzen soon anyway.

Not a bad idea, what size is chain right now?

I may be missing something obvious but I don't see it.

I'm running the monero gui on Linux (64 bit). It seems to be working fine but I can't find any way to exit it. I have to go to the terminal, enter ps -ax, find the pid, and kill it. There has to be an easier way. On the mac there's a menu to quit from. No such menu on Linux.