monerod on my hybrid server is synchronizing painfully slowly, on the order of only about 20 blocks per minute. Port 18080 is open and I have 11+2 connections (varies). Do I just need to wait or is something else going on? At this rate I'm looking at ~90 hours to go from 86% to 100%. server is INTEL XEON E3-1240V3 - 8GB 200GB HDD with over 75GB disk space free.
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To add to the answer provided by fluffyponyza. Hard drive IO is a major bottleneck with synchronizing the blockchain. As an example synchronizing on my desktop took approximately 50 hours on a traditional 7200 rpm disk drive. My laptop was able to fully synchronize the blockchain from scratch in 2-3 hours on its SSD.
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Sounds like your HDD is thrashing, Monero works significantly faster on SSDs. I'd suggest waiting it out, or alternatively use the blockchain importer with the latest blockchain.raw download to catch up to the network.
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