# SPO Restart from Snapshot Takes a Long Time to Process Ledger

**URL:** <https://forum.cardano.org/t/spo-restart-from-snapshot-takes-a-long-time-to-process-ledger/133446>\
**Category:** Setup a Stake Pool\
**Created:** [25 June 2024 16:31 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/spo-restart-from-snapshot-takes-a-long-time-to-process-ledger/133446 "2024-06-25T16:31:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![rbellazaar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.cardano.org/rbellazaar/32/78819_2.png) [@rbellazaar](https://forum.cardano.org/u/rbellazaar)\
**Post date:** [25 June 2024 16:31 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/spo-restart-from-snapshot-takes-a-long-time-to-process-ledger/133446/1 "2024-06-25T16:31:30Z")

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👋 everyone,

I’m running an SPO node bootstrapped from a fresh snapshot on [cnapshot](https://csnapshots.io/mainnet). I have noticed that when I want to restart my block producer node or one of my relayers, it takes a long time _(~40 minutes)_ to process the ledger state.

Here you can find the logs when I restart my node.

```auto
Started opening Volatile DB
Opened vol db
Started opening Ledger DB
Replaying ledger from snapshot at 5ddaaa4229d94f293a0035236af0ad20ffa1d6b0ae89ee16a37e74ef33475aa0 at slot
 127696529
Replayed block: slot 127696544 out of 127712203. Progress: 0.10%
Replayed block: slot 127699197 out of 127712203. Progress: 17.02%
Opened lgr db
Started initial chain selection
Pushing ledger state for block 2ecf057e416552be051e148e9e7464a5a9816612ba83a6e16e7784bd53f98f5a at slot 12
7712209. Progress: 0.00%
before next, messages elided = 127712244
Pushing ledger state for block 55da99e2b0435e6bc62116f71ab19259956775e3e2df83a2e5dc78afab092795 at slot 12
7722229. Progress: 20.64%
Pushing ledger state for block 605de6fc8c2edab21281fccfad595b5c39e203cb5005614a303a3867b642ca95 at slot 12
7722263. Progress: 20.71%

[...]
Pushing ledger state for block da498bdf58d64ef70357a36811f4912806d9eba3288eff514b6841888df37d14 at slot 127760751. Progress: 100.00%

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When I’m checking the content of the ledger folder I can find a snapshot at the slot 127696529 but its a very old slot (~19h)

I would like to know if anyone else is experiencing the same behavior ?

I have an instance with 4CPU and 32GB of RAM. I’m using the default configuration and I leave the default value of 72 minutes for the Snapshot Interval and I’ve an NVME disk and a size of 200 GB allocated to my instance

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![jeremyisme](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.cardano.org/jeremyisme/32/54872_2.png) [@jeremyisme](https://forum.cardano.org/u/jeremyisme)\
**Post date:** [25 June 2024 18:44 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/spo-restart-from-snapshot-takes-a-long-time-to-process-ledger/133446/2 "2024-06-25T18:44:34Z")

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There has been a big load of transactions recently (over the last 12 hours). So the replay will be working through all of those, which can take a very long time.

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**Author:** ![rbellazaar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.cardano.org/rbellazaar/32/78819_2.png) [@rbellazaar](https://forum.cardano.org/u/rbellazaar)\
**Post date:** [25 June 2024 19:04 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/spo-restart-from-snapshot-takes-a-long-time-to-process-ledger/133446/3 "2024-06-25T19:04:55Z")

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Thanks for your reply @jeremyisme

Can we do something on our side ? I’ve also seen that an issue has been opened on Github.

Also do you know why at each restart the node start from a old ledger state ? should we not have a new ledger snapshot every 72 minutes by default ?