title: will my geth fast synching for mainnet ever catch up?
body: <p>I'm using AMD Ryzen 7 2700x CPU, 64Gb memory 1Tb SSD, 100Mb Internet downspeed configuration to create a Ethereum node. I'm running the geth synchmode &quot;fast&quot; command to build a node but it seems to never catch up ! What numbers should I be looking at to see if it ever will. I've read  <a href="https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/issues/20962" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/issues/20962</a> so I know that block count isn't really what I should look for ? Is there something else whose rate of change I should monitor to see if I'm catching up ?  e.g. pulled states in the output from the eth.synching command ? or the pending number in the log entry detailing the Imported new state entries ?
  My geth command:</p>
  <pre><code>geth --syncmode &quot;fast&quot; --cache=4096 -llow-insecure-unlock --http --datadir /crypto/ethereum/mainnet --keystore /crypto/ethereum/keystore --signer=/crypto/ethereum/clef.ipc --maxpeers 25 2&gt;/crypto/ethereum/mainnet_sync_r5.log
  </code></pre>
  <p>Output from eth.synching:</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>eth.syncing
  {   currentBlock: 12168062,<br />
  highestBlock: 12168171,<br />
  knownStates: 183392940,<br />
  pulledStates: 183343841,<br />
  startingBlock: 12160600 }</p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>last few lines from my command log:</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>INFO [04-03|11:16:04.511] Imported new state entries count=1350 elapsed=7.456ms
  processed=183847128 pending=53248 trieretry=93   coderetry=0 duplicate=2969 unexpected=4186274</p>
  </blockquote>
  <blockquote>
  <p>INFO [04-03|11:16:04.674] Imported new state entries               count=0
  elapsed=4.487ms     processed=183847128 pending=52401  trieretry=93   coderetry=0 duplicate=2969 unexpected=4186367</p>
  </blockquote>
  <blockquote>
  <p>INFO[04-03|11:16:04.681] Imported new state entries<br />
  count=1059 elapsed=6.784ms     processed=183848187 pending=52401
  trieretry=93   coderetry=0 duplicate=2969 unexpected=4186367</p>
  </blockquote>
  <blockquote>
  <p>INFO [04-03|11:16:04.880] Imported new state entries<br />
  count=1152 elapsed=5.161ms     processed=183849339 pending=53150
  trieretry=0    coderetry=0 duplicate=2969 unexpected=4186367</p>
  </blockquote>
  <blockquote>
  <p>INFO [04-03|11:16:05.003] Imported new state entries<br />
  count=1152 elapsed=5.906ms     processed=183850491 pending=52394
  trieretry=0    coderetry=0 duplicate=2969 unexpected=4186367</p>
  </blockquote>