eth wallet (mist) and cpu load

[vlom]

i know, an other eth topic....

but the problem is. every time i synch my eth-wallet (mist) the fans of my macbook start because of this:



geth is doing this.

does anybody know why this wallet behaves like that during the sync?

edit: i nearly can't touch my mba while im am typing this.

[stoat]

i know, an other eth topic....

but the problem is. every time i synch my eth-wallet (mist) the fans of my macbook start because of this:



does anybody know why this wallet behaves like that during the sync?

Are you running geth in the background?

I think mist comes with an ethereum node that mines to your local wallet.

Need to do the miner.stop command

Im on linux so fuck knows

[vlom]

yes geth is running according to Activity Monitor. but i only started the wallet.

after quitting geth the wallet stops synchronising.

[Sark]

Its validating the blockchain, it takes a lot of processing power if you have a lot of blocks to validate. Once it gets caught up to the current block, its not a big deal.

Eventually there will be a light client so that people will not have to run a full node.

[vlom]

well, i used a lot of wallets, e.g. btc, doge, ltc. but none of them did this.

if you have a lot of blocks to validate.

yes i have to. i did not use this wallet for more than a month. just wanted to check how many coins i own.

[BitcoinNewsMagazine]

Using latest Mist 1.3.5 for Homestead with geth running, cpu use is minimal on Windows, no problems so far. The notes at https://github.com/ethereum/mist/releases/ say that eth isn't bundled on OSX with the Ethereum-Wallet, but that you can start an eth node before starting Mist, and the wallet will connect to it. geth is written in Go and eth is C++ right? Can you use geth and eth interchangeably on a MacBook?