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You should turn off confirmation until you're synced. It will also speed up your replay by a lot if confirmation is off.

Ok disabled and restarted

It got to 20170829

You didn't restart the whole replay, did you?

I think I did. Used to the regular witnessing, I thought a replay would still be faster than a regular sync at where it left

Bummer. For pocket, the bottleneck by far is querying the blocks, not computing the state.

Maybe I can download the db file from you and start from it?