Installed Bitcoinxt throttled down connection

[Mike]

Hi All,

I recently installed bitcoinxt, it works fine and tested successfully with bit-nodes. However it consumes a massive 13gb within 1 1/2 hours at a rate of roughly 1.3mbps.

I would like to ask would it cause a Blockchain download bottleneck to throttle down the connection to 60 - 90kbps; in other words the connections on my server are ahead of the latest downloaded block on my hard drive i.e. the latest block I have stored on my system cannot keep up with the latest connections coming through and could cause my node to become unreliable?
(I have a occasional STALLED status email from Bitnodes on some occasions, does that have anything to do with it?)

According to Bitnodes my average latency is the same, before and after throttle - 35 37ms, but I'm thinking that's just for the active connections part not the blockchain catchup?

(I know its a huge downgrade of connection performance, I do intend to keep my node running 24/7/365 days!. I don't have infinite HDD space and need to keep good with my ISPs fair usage policy)

Thank you for your support.

Best Regards,
Mike

Bitcoin MUST and WILL survive!.

[Tom Harding]

Mike,

It's not too useful to run a full node that will never catch up.  You could run in pruned mode, but you have to catch up first.

Bitcoin Core has a "blocksonly" mode that totally disables visibility to real-time transactions.  Bitcoin XT doesn't offer this, as it seeks to not impair the usefulness of those.

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