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my computer is mac and it has run geth import for about a week, and it's 4000000 block now. I have ran geth --fast before and it's slow too. I am in china, is it something i can do to make it faster?

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  • Add --cache=1024 per this answer ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/392/…
    – Michael O'Rourke
    Dec 1, 2017 at 13:06
  • Are you using a SSD? It is required to sync.
    – Ismael ♦
    Dec 1, 2017 at 16:04
  • download exported blockchain from the net, import it, and then just sync the remaining blocks.
    – Nulik
    Dec 1, 2017 at 18:58
  • i figure out that i should clean the database before i run geth --fast, but now it print INFO [12-03|19:59:43] Imported new state entries count=919 elapsed=30.270ms processed=25441830 pending=8841 retry=47 duplicate=8575 unexpected=23362 WARN [12-03|19:59:58] Stalling state sync, dropping peer peer=107d9b0f9f47fbca and never end, is it ok?
    – user24225
    Dec 4, 2017 at 1:04

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Try this, 

geth removedb

then 

geth --light

I have found that --light is much faster, only a few minutes for me compared to fast.

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  • with your recommendation to removedb he will lose the week he was downloading. and the --light option won't download the full blockchain btw, only current state
    – Nulik
    Dec 1, 2017 at 18:57
  • Yes he will delete his chain, but will have a fully synced chain in minutes giving him access to his funds and enabling him to start transacting. Why would you need a full node when the average person only needs to access their wallet. Since --light became available its all I use.
    – Lismore
    Dec 2, 2017 at 8:57
  • you are right. i do geth removedb, then geth --fast. i read the document that say fast mode only works when there is no data in database.
    – user24225
    Dec 4, 2017 at 1:02

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