Cardano-node start time

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Definitely faster startup times for newer node versions are reported when killing with signal SIGINT (killall sends SIGTERM by default):

Restart producer node - 18 minutes to sync

thanks @lauris that’s good to know. In version 1.18.0 this was not the case… SIGINT had the same effect as SIGHUP, SIGKILL etc… crash and burn no matter what, with ledger having to catch up from the last checkpoint. We reported this here & sounds like it’s been fixed: Or maybe we’ve seen the huge improvement ourselves in restart speed since our systemd script was set to use SIGINT from the beginning, even though version 1.18.0 didn’t catch that signal at the time (@stiiiif you could also tr…

So you can do this instead:
killall -s SIGINT cardano-node

It might help also to look at some of the other performance considerations linked from that thread. Maybe a coincidence, but 90 seconds is also the timeout for restarting a daemon if it’s running from systemd (if not true for you yet, then something you’ll be interested in).