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I am using a raspberry pi to download the archived version of the blockchain with parity. I've started parity with
parity -d /home/xxx/data/Ethereum --pruning archive --public-node
However, the synchronisation is running at 0-5 blocks per second. At this rate, it won't finish for 1-2 years.
Is there a setting that I can use to speed this up. For example, if I reduced the --max-peers to 10 would it speed up the synchronisation? Or is this an unachievable feat for a Pi?
It's more likely to take 10-20 years on a Raspberry Pi given the current Ethereum blockchain utilization with more than 400k transactions per day.
Even on commodity hardware it's taking weeks to complete an archive sync due to the spam blocks in autumn 2016.
The most obvious way to get this done is attaching the external drive which is hopefully an SSD with at least 500 GB to some fast machine, sync up in archive mode and once finished, mount it on your Raspberry Pi and attach it with --db-path.
