[SOLVED] electrum server stuck and running at 100% CPU

[torusJKL]

I have installed electrum server according to the guide at https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum-server/blob/master/HOWTO.md
I downloaded electrum-fulltree-10000-2015-12-29.tar.gz and checked the md5sum.
bitcoind is running.

When I start electrum server I get the following

Code:

[30/12/2015-15:06:38] Starting Electrum server on localhost
[30/12/2015-15:06:41] Database version 3.
[30/12/2015-15:06:41] Pruning limit for spent outputs is 10000.
[30/12/2015-15:06:41] Blockchain height 390710
[30/12/2015-15:06:41] UTXO tree root hash: b4c35e623ac12d85a92062fe39dd4a10dc9c0c0d160164828c2891450a3a73da
[30/12/2015-15:06:41] Coins in database: 1501495740711105
[30/12/2015-15:06:41] TCP server started on [::1]:50001
[30/12/2015-15:06:41] block 390711 (1 0.24s) ae52a703a35f1c5b32060998d4b8b2c5eabec0bf3543b9ecc327e8e074b035dd (4.14tx/s, 0.24s/block) (eta 1min, 254 blocks)

But it will not continue.

If I execute any ohter electrum-server command (e.g. stop, status, getinfo) then electrum will use 100% CPU but will be stuck.
The only way to stop it is to kill the process.

If I start it again I see the following in the log

Code:

[30/12/2015-15:40:11] Starting Electrum server on localhost
[30/12/2015-15:40:11] Database version 3.
[30/12/2015-15:40:11] Pruning limit for spent outputs is 10000.
[30/12/2015-15:40:11] Blockchain height 390711
[30/12/2015-15:40:11] UTXO tree root hash: ae52a703a35f1c5b32060998d4b8b2c5eabec0bf3543b9ecc327e8e074b035dd
[30/12/2015-15:40:11] Coins in database: 1501498240711105
[30/12/2015-15:40:11] catching up missing headers: 390710 390711
[30/12/2015-15:40:12] TCP server started on [::1]:50001

Any ideas?
Thanks.

[dan91]

I noticed your transactions / second looks quite slow. How long did you leave it at 100% to make sure it was not calculating the next block.

Mine looked like this (same blocks as you)

Code:

30/12/2015-04:33:39] Starting Electrum server on localhost
[30/12/2015-04:33:39] Database version 3.
[30/12/2015-04:33:39] Pruning limit for spent outputs is 10000.
[30/12/2015-04:33:39] Blockchain height 390710
[30/12/2015-04:33:39] UTXO tree root hash: b4c35e623ac12d85a92062fe39dd4a10dc9c0c0d160164828c2891450a3a73da
[30/12/2015-04:33:39] Coins in database: 1501495740711105
[30/12/2015-04:33:39] TCP server started on [::1]:50001
[30/12/2015-04:33:39] SSL server started on [::1]:50002
[30/12/2015-04:33:39] block 390711 (1 0.02s) ae52a703a35f1c5b32060998d4b8b2c5eabec0bf3543b9ecc327e8e074b035dd (51.39tx/s, 0.02s/block) (eta 0min, 198 blocks)
[30/12/2015-04:34:27] block 390712 (918 47.29s) 2ac22a5951ea00357174f14aed0f6f0ca02276a054b4bb902a01f6df6acd7ae1 (19.43tx/s, 23.89s/block) (eta 81min, 197 blocks)
[30/12/2015-04:34:52] block 390713 (602 25.19s) 6237340e7e1aa842283ec871c9c02dbd969e1e6869e64330e1e916623fee8193 (21.00tx/s, 24.33s/block) (eta 82min, 196 blocks)
[30/12/2015-04:35:43] block 390714 (470 50.44s) f407705342ac0cd4493cfef7775ef26d557af4d2b4ec8c9b7cf91c091b2804c4 (16.11tx/s, 31.06s/block) (eta 107min, 196 blocks)
[30/12/2015-04:37:16] block 390715 (2240 92.62s) 3dc1fe0bf414708dbf8481648c8cba9ba598fc213dc26c7a83283f05654a0697 (19.66tx/s, 43.86s/block) (eta 154min, 196 blocks)

[torusJKL]

If I only start electrum-server and don't do any other command then it actually runs with around 0.3%-0.7% CPU

Code:

  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
  988 bitcoin   20   0 1470944 184652  11984 S   1.0  9.0   0:33.96 bitcoind
 1722 electrum  20   0 2316988 144540  46044 S   0.3  7.1   0:02.66 run_electrum_se

Only if I execute the electrum-server command a second time than it goes up to 100%.

I think I waited around 30minutes before I killed the process.

[dan91]

If you open the log with it running (without running a new process) does it just say the same thing?

By killing the process you might have corrupted it?

Id head over to the electrum IRC someone more knowledgeable might help you

is freenode server #electrum

[torusJKL]

I run the electrum-server under a different user than bitcoind.
Thus when I set the ulimit for bitcoin (as described in the howto) it had no impact and I had to set it for the user that runs electrum.