Understand current syncing time

[bowenwang1996]

There have been multiple reports that the time it takes to sync a node to mainnet is quite suboptimal. It is important to understand where we are at with syncing in its current form and it may impact how we want to roll out the new syncing.

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[frol]

It is indeed unclear if it got stuck or if it just needs more time (it is trying to get through state sync for more than 1.5 hours already).

It is a non-archival node running nearcore 1.29.0 release on mainnet.

UPD: It took 4 hours to get through state sync, and after that the node is up and running just fine.

[Longarithm]

Tracked around #8545.