# Gavin Andresen
# 2012-03-22 14:54:19
# https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=69337.msg814329#msg814329

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I pulled #964 for 0.6 this morning. @p{par}

I had played with database settings several months ago and saw no speedup because there was another bug causing a bottleneck.  That bug was fixed a while ago, but nobody thought to try tweaking the db settings again until a few days ago. @p{par}

Pieter and Greg did all the hard work of doing a lot of benchmarking to figure out which settings actually matter. @p{par}

PS: the database settings are run-time configurable for any version of bitcoin; berkeley db @p{(link}reads a file called 'DB_CONFIG'@p{link)} (if it exists) in the "database environment" directory (aka -datadir). @p{brk}