# Speed ut counterpartyd
**URL:** https://forums.counterparty.io/t/speed-ut-counterpartyd/418
**Category:** Counterparty
**Created:** [August 30, 2014, 12:18pm UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/speed-ut-counterpartyd/418 "2014-08-30T12:18:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@tesaag](https://forums.counterparty.io/u/tesaag)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2014, 12:18pm UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/speed-ut-counterpartyd/418/1 "2014-08-30T12:18:42Z")
I just set up counterpartyd but it's talking for ever to sync. It uses something like 10+ sec on each block. Is there any way to speed this up?
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### Author:  [@romerun](https://forums.counterparty.io/u/romerun)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2014, 1:55pm UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/speed-ut-counterpartyd/418/2 "2014-08-30T13:55:57Z")
I have bitcoin datadir on macbook ssd drive, everything in ssd drive that helps
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### Author:  [@niceplum](https://forums.counterparty.io/u/niceplum)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2014, 3:32pm UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/speed-ut-counterpartyd/418/3 "2014-08-30T15:32:29Z")
Its being optimized, but an ssd is your best bet
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### Author:  [@tesaag](https://forums.counterparty.io/u/tesaag)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2014, 5:05pm UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/speed-ut-counterpartyd/418/4 "2014-08-30T17:05:08Z")
Does this really have that much of an impact? I was guessing cpu was the probme?
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### Author:  [@something](https://forums.counterparty.io/u/something)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2014, 5:35pm UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/speed-ut-counterpartyd/418/5 "2014-08-30T17:35:54Z")
[quote author=tesaag link=topic=532.msg3235#msg3235 date=1409432708]
Does this really have that much of an impact? I was guessing cpu was the probme?
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It's JSON RPC calls I think, it's a known issue and the devs are working on making it better.
It takes a day or so currently.
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### Author:  [@tesaag](https://forums.counterparty.io/u/tesaag)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2014, 6:37pm UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/speed-ut-counterpartyd/418/6 "2014-08-30T18:37:21Z")
My estimate is 3,9days left ☹ But ok thanks for the info 🙂
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### Author:  [@weex](https://forums.counterparty.io/u/weex)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2014, 9:07pm UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/speed-ut-counterpartyd/418/7 "2014-08-30T21:07:45Z")
If you want to help bitcoind be faster when its syncing you can add -dbcache=128 or 256 so the client will allocate more ram and reduce io with the hdd. If it's really the rpc calls it won't help but bitcoin does a lot of disk io as well.
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### Author:  [@tesaag](https://forums.counterparty.io/u/tesaag)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2014, 5:03am UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/speed-ut-counterpartyd/418/8 "2014-08-31T05:03:59Z")
Does not seem to have helped. Last measurement was 10s now its 13
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### Author:  [@something](https://forums.counterparty.io/u/something)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2014, 6:10am UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/speed-ut-counterpartyd/418/9 "2014-08-31T06:10:27Z")
[quote author=weex link=topic=532.msg3242#msg3242 date=1409447265]
If you want to help bitcoind be faster when its syncing you can add -dbcache=128 or 256 so the client will allocate more ram and reduce io with the hdd. If it's really the rpc calls it won't help but bitcoin does a lot of disk io as well.
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[https://github.com/CounterpartyXCP/counterpartyd/issues/235](https://github.com/CounterpartyXCP/counterpartyd/issues/235)
[https://github.com/CounterpartyXCP/counterpartyd/issues/144](https://github.com/CounterpartyXCP/counterpartyd/issues/144)
If you have hard data to improve on the current understanding and proposed enhancements, welcome to contribute on Github!
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### Author:  [@tesaag](https://forums.counterparty.io/u/tesaag)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2014, 7:18am UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/speed-ut-counterpartyd/418/10 "2014-08-31T07:18:43Z")
I had a look at it 🙂
See there was a bootstrap file, any chance of getting that back up?