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For those who have a sync-ed EVM node, can help share the current eth.syncing status?

I'm still syncing my node. Below is my status.

> eth.syncing
{
  currentBlock: 11365522,
  highestBlock: 11365595,
  knownStates: 526253551,
  pulledStates: 526197388,
  startingBlock: 11274865
}

I need to know how far is my node from fully sync-ed. Thanks.

Capital C
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  • Take a look at `(Etherscan)[https://etherscan.io/] latest blocks mined is in the homepage. – Iñigo González Dec 03 '20 at 16:11
  • FYI, I'm running a fast mode GETH node. Block info already up-to-date. Account states still behind. I've tried but can't find any state info on etherscan. Thanks for your advice. – Capital C Dec 04 '20 at 03:35
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    `knownStates` for October was somewhere around 700 million. I suppose now it could be around 800 million for December 2020 – Nulik Dec 25 '20 at 16:17
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    your node will be in sync when `eth.syncing` reports `false` instead of an object of sync status – Nulik Dec 25 '20 at 16:19
  • Just checked my node's status. Sync-ed 660M states so far. Will continue checking until getting false. Thanks @Nulik – Capital C Dec 29 '20 at 11:38
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    @CapitalC syncing 3 million state objects per day is too slow. My node is doing 25 million per day. You probably should increase max peers or get a better hardware (faster machine + connection) – Nulik Dec 29 '20 at 16:16
  • @Nulik Would you mind sharing the GETH command line option of your node? – Capital C Jan 11 '21 at 09:28
  • @CapitalC the only option I add is `--cache 24000` and `--datadir` ,not much different from yours I guess. My server is at Linode. I just recalculated the stats, I started on 18 Dec. that would be 25 days. Now I have 550 million states. So this gives me a speed of 22 million state objects (trie nodes) per day. – Nulik Jan 12 '21 at 15:32
  • @CapitalC to download 800 million object I would need 36 days, I have 25 days passed, so 11 days left to download this thing – Nulik Jan 12 '21 at 15:34
  • @CapitalC the final number of states is unknown, I am supposing it is 800m but it could be 900m , nobody knows – Nulik Jan 12 '21 at 15:38
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    also, you need to use SSD disk . If you don't have SSD disk, you can get a USB flash 3.0 of say 64GB and use it as SSD together with `bcache` kernel module as caching device for HDD (magnetic) disk. I have been tested this setup during block import process and was getting an insertion speed of 500 million blocks per day for an archival node setup – Nulik Jan 12 '21 at 16:51
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    I just synced today and it got to 700469756 knownStates first. The biggest issue was the HDD, I moved everything to a new NVMe SSD and restarted - the difference was dramatic. – Cosmicnet Mar 18 '21 at 11:04
  • My current eth.syncing status (last status before turning to FALSE):- { currentBlock: 12204081, highestBlock: 12204082, knownStates: 694587350, pulledStates: 694587350, startingBlock: 12203982 } – Capital C Apr 09 '21 at 06:41

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When you are synced, eth.syncing returns false. You will import up to the highestBlock and knownStates. Block importing will stop ~64 blocks behind head and finish importing states. Once all states are downloaded, geth will switch into a full node and sync the remaining ~64 blocks fully, as well as new ones.

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