question that got raised in the reddit forum of Mintcoin by Sudeep1360:
Wallet takes forever to open!
Is it just me. been over 10 minutes and still stuck on loading block index. become much slower after the update to 1.9
http://www.reddit.com/r/MintCoin/comments/24fqx1/wallet_takes_forever_to_open/********************************************************************
I responded with the following :
Found the wallet starting slow from the start .. mostly it seems to be just loading RAM memory very slow till it reaches something like 150 MB RAM and then it will start the actual program. However this shouldnt take 10 minutes as you describe. More like 2 minutes top..
You could try adding -dbcache=200 in the shortcut, in theory this should force Mintcoin to dedicate 200 RAM memory for its operations.
example : rightclick shortcut and click properties, then shortcut, then target
change
C:\Mintcoin\mintcoin-qt.exe
to
C:\Mintcoin\mintcoin-qt.exe -dbcache=200
note : tbh i'm not sure the whole -dbcache=... command option is properly put into the mintcoin wallet, it was introduced much better into the latest bitcoin wallet and works far more effective in there it seems.
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see link for how its currently implemented in the bitcoin wallet :
http://imgur.com/RWXG51Mquestion to this forum : is this something you guys regnonice ? this slow starting of Mintcoin wallet ? Is it indeed RAM related ? Or could it be something else ?
EDIT : See also
http://www.reddit.com/r/MintCoin/comments/21kep3/caching_block_index_so_wallet_loads_faster_can_it/ It's been extremely slow to open for me as well
Everytime I try to unlock it to mint, it crashes
I haven't had time to wait 10 mins yet though, maybe tonight after work.