The most frequently seen log line prints tip-update data after each successful block connection. During IBD this produces ~900k lines (~250 characters per line), totaling ~220 MB so far.
Most key=value
pairs are written directly, but block time is emitted as date='ISO8601DateTime'
, adding unnecessary single quotes because the value contains no spaces.
Removing those quotes shortens every line and reduces a full-IBD debug log by ~1% (about ~2MB).
Before:
2025-07-16T04:50:47Z UpdateTip: new best=00000000000000000001f49fb5fb37753c06d78f1a811d707aebf6194bb147e5 height=890000 version=0x25e9a000 log2_work=95.523053 tx=1172414692 date=‘2025-03-29T17:29:01Z’ progress=0.964378 cache=1578.9MiB(11964898txo)
After:
2025-07-16T04:50:47Z UpdateTip: new best=00000000000000000001f49fb5fb37753c06d78f1a811d707aebf6194bb147e5 height=890000 version=0x25e9a000 log2_work=95.523053 tx=1172414692 date=2025-03-29T17:29:01Z progress=0.964378 cache=1578.9MiB(11964898txo)