Title: Bitcoin memory usage
Post by: alkhdaniel on June 29, 2011, 07:44:48 PM
bitcoin/bitcoind uses almost 150mb RAM and the memory usage rises every day.
Any way to lower the usage or am i just doing something wrong? Guessing it has something to do with latest block being stored in memory or something, is there a way to prevent this?
Thanks, Daniel.
Title: Re: Bitcoin memory usage
Post by: gigabytecoin on July 02, 2011, 03:47:08 AM
bitcoin/bitcoind uses almost 150mb RAM and the memory usage rises every day.
Any way to lower the usage or am i just doing something wrong? Guessing it has something to do with latest block being stored in memory or something, is there a way to prevent this?
Thanks, Daniel.
What OS are you running? What version of bitcoin/bitcoind are you running? Try upgrading both to the latest versions first and report back. The Bitcoin client is still in beta/testing mode, remember. We still have a long way to go before a "1.0 final" release.
Title: Re: Bitcoin memory usage
Post by: alkhdaniel on July 02, 2011, 10:06:27 AM
Win 7 64bit & fedora 12 32bit
Memory usage seems to have went down @Win7 machine now though (to 80mb, might be because of i newly booted?), only running bitcoind on fedora and it uses as much memory as bitcoin(with GUI) on Win7. Not really sure if this is a huge problem though, maybe some other people could check their current usage and uptime on the client?
Would be nice to see lower mem usage on bitcoind but i guess it shouldn't be that high priority anyway, 140mb isn't too much and there is probaly better things to use energy on fixing for now.
Title: Re: Bitcoin memory usage
Post by: dikidera on July 02, 2011, 10:34:58 AM
Yup, for me the client(GUI) always uses 100+ megabytes of RAM....
Title: Re: Bitcoin memory usage
Post by: WakiMiko on July 02, 2011, 04:52:10 PM
bitcoind is running 24/7 on my debian server, and its memory usage seems to be ever increasing as time goes on: $ pmap -x `pidof bitcoind`
30338: bitcoind -daemon
Address Kbytes RSS Dirty Mode Mapping
0000000000400000 0 1300 0 r-x-- bitcoind
0000000000994000 0 4 4 r---- bitcoind
0000000000995000 0 32 20 rw--- bitcoind
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00007f8d4d5ba000 0 44 0 r-x-- ld-2.11.2.so
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00007f8d4d60d000 0 36 8 rw-s- __db.004
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00007f8d4d667000 0 28 20 rw-s- __db.002
00007f8d4d7c3000 0 4 0 rw-s- __db.001
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00007f8d4d7d8000 0 4 4 rw--- ld-2.11.2.so
00007f8d4d7d9000 0 4 4 rw--- [ anon ]
00007fff27624000 0 12 8 rw--- [ stack ]
00007fff2776d000 0 4 0 r-x-- [ anon ]
ffffffffff600000 0 0 0 r-x-- [ anon ]
---------------- ------ ------ ------
total kB 634516 458876 455364
Thats half a gigabyte...
Title: Re: Bitcoin memory usage
Post by: alkhdaniel on July 02, 2011, 05:28:59 PM
Guess it's not only me then.
What i noticed was that it is lower when you haven't downloaded the blockchain (it starts out at about 20-30mb i believe, rising with about 1-2mb/minute (was getting the blockchain at about 600kbps i believe).
After the blockchain is completely downloaded the memory usage doesn't rise very much, maybe a 2-5 mb/h, not really sure
Since i wrote my old post it's risen from 80 to 98mb though. (7 hours)
Title: Re: Bitcoin memory usage
Post by: CNMOH on July 02, 2011, 05:54:52 PM
Yeah, there is definitely some kind of memory leak, although it's very small. But a lot of people run the client 24/7, so it builds up.
Title: Re: Bitcoin memory usage
Post by: Transisto on March 23, 2013, 05:36:32 AM
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root@w:~#
900mb usage , 40 connections after 24h 0.8.1 on Ubuntu 12.04
Title: Re: Bitcoin memory usage
Post by: rupy on May 03, 2013, 07:14:22 AM
So is there anything (besides digging in the source) to limit this on linux?
Title: Re: Bitcoin memory usage
Post by: Matt Corallo on May 05, 2013, 02:45:21 PM
There were a few changes about a month ago (that will be in 0.8.2) that hugely decrease memory consumption with a lot of connections. You might try building git master (obviously not supported and dont do it with a lot of coins/as a merchant/miner/etc) and running that, or just wait.
Title: Re: Bitcoin memory usage
Post by: romerun on May 11, 2013, 02:35:04 PM
running 0.8.1 bitcoind on x64 linux, the mem climbs to 1.5g within 20 minutes. I'm restarting it 2-3 times a day. Once it gets so big like 2.2G, it's really difficult to shutdown the deamon gracefully. Are there some parameters that I should try to mitigate the problem ?
(tried the 0.8.2 a couple days ago noticing that the mem usage was still significant like gig+, and it halted on getaddress command, guess it's a bug or something, so I switched back.)
Note that I used the bootstrap.dat from torrent to get started and having more than 20 connections.
Title: Re: Bitcoin memory usage
Post by: Matt Corallo on May 11, 2013, 05:24:32 PM
running 0.8.1 bitcoind on x64 linux, the mem climbs to 1.5g within 20 minutes. I'm restarting it 2-3 times a day. Once it gets so big like 2.2G, it's really difficult to shutdown the deamon gracefully. Are there some parameters that I should try to mitigate the problem ?
(tried the 0.8.2 a couple days ago noticing that the mem usage was still significant like gig+, and it halted on getaddress command, guess it's a bug or something, so I switched back.)
Do you have a massive wallet/huge number of transactions? My node has 47 connections (I sometimes get up to a few hundred) and memory usage on 0.8.2 doesnt go above 500m.
Title: Re: Bitcoin memory usage
Post by: romerun on May 13, 2013, 02:37:30 AM
It's been stable between 600m-1g for a while now after it caught up with the blockchain. I guess it has a tendency to use a lot of memory downloading block after being outdated.
Title: Re: Bitcoin memory usage
Post by: gateway on July 31, 2013, 06:10:27 PM
I just found this thread cause im seeing bitcoind "version" : 80300, take up 391 megs on the server, its just idle, we compiled it from git and ran it, after it caught up on the blocks its just taking up so much memory, anyone know why or have a solution? ..
Server Ubuntu 12.04.x
Title: Re: Bitcoin memory usage
Post by: Abdussamad on August 11, 2013, 06:33:42 AM
bitcoind 0.8.1 had a memory leak in it. But 0.8.3 can run comfortably on a 512MB RAM VPS
Title: Re: Bitcoin memory usage
Post by: Abdussamad on August 11, 2013, 06:35:33 AM
I just found this thread cause im seeing bitcoind "version" : 80300, take up 391 megs on the server, its just idle, we compiled it from git and ran it, after it caught up on the blocks its just taking up so much memory, anyone know why or have a solution? ..
Server Ubuntu 12.04.x
This is what I am seeing on my VPS: bit@hghg:~$ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 768 488 279 0 0 115 -/+ buffers/cache: 373 394 Swap: 256 34 221 So yeah 300-400MB of RAM.
Title: Re: Bitcoin memory usage
Post by: bitpop on August 11, 2013, 08:33:31 AM
Thats nothing, try using armory lol
Title: Re: Bitcoin memory usage
Post by: dnaleor on August 15, 2013, 09:58:35 AM
so this could be a potential reason why U get the bluescreen and physical memory dump from timeto time?
Maybe I should switch to electrum...
Title: Re: Bitcoin memory usage
Post by: Abdussamad on August 15, 2013, 10:40:12 AM
Well my bitcoind installation crashed after a week of uptime. Maybe it was killed because it ran out of memory. I thought this problem was fixed in the 0.8.3 version.
Title: Re: Bitcoin memory usage
Post by: rupy on August 15, 2013, 11:33:55 AM
bitcoind runs without memory leak, but memory usage is high (1.2 GB on my setup, uptime 100 days now).
Title: Re: Bitcoin memory usage
Post by: Abdussamad on August 15, 2013, 11:41:17 AM
bitcoind runs without memory leak, but memory usage is high (1.2 GB on my setup, uptime 100 days now).
100 days so you are using an older version?
Title: Re: Bitcoin memory usage
Post by: rupy on August 16, 2013, 09:30:22 AM
0.8.1 apparently... I'll keep it until a major flaw is discovered... or pruning is implemented!!!
Title: Re: Bitcoin memory usage
Post by: desired_username on August 16, 2013, 11:12:14 AM
I see 300-400MB usage.
Just to put it into perspective, chrome uses 3000MB at the moment (lots of open tabs).
Title: Re: Bitcoin memory usage
Post by: grue on August 16, 2013, 05:53:47 PM
0.8.1 apparently... I'll keep it until a major flaw is discovered... or pruning is implemented!!!
0.8.1 and 0.8.2 is vulnerable to a memory exhaustion attack. It's highly advised to update.
Title: Re: Bitcoin memory usage
Post by: rupy on August 17, 2013, 09:30:51 AM
0.8.1 apparently... I'll keep it until a major flaw is discovered... or pruning is implemented!!!
0.8.1 and 0.8.2 is vulnerable to a memory exhaustion attack. It's highly advised to update. It's behind firewall, is the attack still possible then?
Title: Re: Bitcoin memory usage
Post by: DeathAndTaxes on August 17, 2013, 09:38:45 AM
0.8.1 apparently... I'll keep it until a major flaw is discovered... or pruning is implemented!!!
0.8.1 and 0.8.2 is vulnerable to a memory exhaustion attack. It's highly advised to update. It's behind firewall, is the attack still possible then? Yes.
Title: Re: Bitcoin memory usage
Post by: Abdussamad on August 17, 2013, 12:16:13 PM
Just want to add that previously I wrote that my bitcoind version 0.8.3 crashed and I suspected it was because of OOM error. But now I think that isn't the case. I think it ran out of disk space. I've freed up space and restarted bitcoind. Only time will tell how long it stays up.
Title: Re: Bitcoin memory usage
Post by: Bitcoinreminder.com on December 06, 2013, 04:07:54 PM
How is it running at the moment for you?
My bitcoind is also consuming more and more memory over the time... 590 mb usually.. and then growing growing up to more than 1 gb after some days..
Anybody knows how to prevent this?
I set maxconnections to 20, but it didnt change anything..
Title: Re: Bitcoin memory usage
Post by: grue on December 06, 2013, 04:18:16 PM
How is it running at the moment for you?
My bitcoind is also consuming more and more memory over the time... 590 mb usually.. and then growing growing up to more than 1 gb after some days..
Anybody knows how to prevent this?
I set maxconnections to 20, but it didnt change anything..
connections do not increase memory usage that much. the biggest factor in usage increase is the growing memory pool for transactions. there is no way to clear the memory pool, or set a limit for it. the only remedy is increasing ram capacity, increasing swap, or restarting the daemon regularly.
Title: Re: Bitcoin memory usage
Post by: enquirer on December 09, 2013, 07:43:13 PM
My bitcoind is also consuming more and more memory over the time... 590 mb usually.. and then growing growing up to more than 1 gb after some days..
Lucky you! 4072 bitcoin 20 0 6342m 4.9g 25m S 12 63.3 402:46.47 bitcoind
Title: Re: Bitcoin memory usage
Post by: Bitcoinreminder.com on December 09, 2013, 07:45:10 PM
My bitcoind is also consuming more and more memory over the time... 590 mb usually.. and then growing growing up to more than 1 gb after some days..
Lucky you! 4072 bitcoin 20 0 6342m 4.9g 25m S 12 63.3 402:46.47 bitcoind Even after restarting? Do you know if the new version 0.8.6 has the same problems? Within the last days, the memory consumption is increasing on my system.. I have to restart the bitcoin daemon every day now :S
Title: Re: Bitcoin memory usage
Post by: enquirer on December 10, 2013, 09:17:01 PM
ok, 780MB after restarting, still too much imo
what are they storing, tx cache? DB cache? doesn't make sense
Title: Re: Bitcoin memory usage
Post by: Bitcoinreminder.com on December 10, 2013, 09:20:00 PM
The new version seems to consume much less memory... 320mb... (previously at my pc 520mb)
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