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Hello, so I have a new Dell laptop with Intel Pentium N3700, 4 GB RAM and 500 GB HDD with Ubuntu 16. I want to use it to store cryptocurrencies. So I downloaded Bitcoin Core 0.13 and it started synchronizing. When it got to the point that ~1 year 40 weeks were left to synchronize, computer just froze, keyboard didn't respond, mouse/ touchpad didn't respond too. I had to shut down computer with power button. I ran Bitcoin Core for several more times and every time it froze after 5 - 20 min. I tried Bitcoin Core 0.12 and result was the same. However I managed to set up Dash Core (I am not trying to promote Dash here) and wallet for another coin and it downloaded both blockchains without problem. Should I try older version of Bitcoin Core? But would that be safe? I guess I can use Electrum or other wallet but I wanted to use the "real" thing.
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November 24, 2016, 04:21:56 PM |
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The Bitcoin blockchain is much larger and requires more processing power to process than most altcoins.
How much free space do you have on that hard drive before you started Bitcoin Core?
Can you please post the debug.log file?
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November 24, 2016, 04:36:18 PM |
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Hello, so I have a new Dell laptop with Intel Pentium N3700, 4 GB RAM and 500 GB HDD with Ubuntu 16. I want to use it to store cryptocurrencies. So I downloaded Bitcoin Core 0.13 and it started synchronizing. When it got to the point that ~1 year 40 weeks were left to synchronize, computer just froze, keyboard didn't respond, mouse/ touchpad didn't respond too. I had to shut down computer with power button. I ran Bitcoin Core for several more times and every time it froze after 5 - 20 min. I tried Bitcoin Core 0.12 and result was the same. However I managed to set up Dash Core (I am not trying to promote Dash here) and wallet for another coin and it downloaded both blockchains without problem. Should I try older version of Bitcoin Core? But would that be safe? I guess I can use Electrum or other wallet but I wanted to use the "real" thing.
I am now donwloading the blockchain of bitcoin core. At this moment i a only twee weeks behind. If i look at my harddisk i now use already 97.5 GB. I use the lastest version i think Bitcoin core 0.13.1. Is it possible perhaps that you don't have enough free space anymore on your harddisk. That's why i did buy an external harddisk to put the blockchain on it. I have been downloading now for a good two weeks (about 5 hours a day).
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November 25, 2016, 10:24:03 AM |
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The Bitcoin blockchain is much larger and requires more processing power to process than most altcoins.
How much free space do you have on that hard drive before you started Bitcoin Core?
Can you please post the debug.log file?
Thanks for the answer. Laptop is new, so there is essentially 500 GB free space, basically I don't have anything else on that laptop . I figured out that maybe that freeze was due to overheating, because that freeze happened after laptop was already working on blockchain for several hours. I will try to find debug.log file and post it.
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November 25, 2016, 10:28:13 AM |
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Hello, so I have a new Dell laptop with Intel Pentium N3700, 4 GB RAM and 500 GB HDD with Ubuntu 16. I want to use it to store cryptocurrencies. So I downloaded Bitcoin Core 0.13 and it started synchronizing. When it got to the point that ~1 year 40 weeks were left to synchronize, computer just froze, keyboard didn't respond, mouse/ touchpad didn't respond too. I had to shut down computer with power button. I ran Bitcoin Core for several more times and every time it froze after 5 - 20 min. I tried Bitcoin Core 0.12 and result was the same. However I managed to set up Dash Core (I am not trying to promote Dash here) and wallet for another coin and it downloaded both blockchains without problem. Should I try older version of Bitcoin Core? But would that be safe? I guess I can use Electrum or other wallet but I wanted to use the "real" thing.
I am now donwloading the blockchain of bitcoin core. At this moment i a only twee weeks behind. If i look at my harddisk i now use already 97.5 GB. I use the lastest version i think Bitcoin core 0.13.1. Is it possible perhaps that you don't have enough free space anymore on your harddisk. That's why i did buy an external harddisk to put the blockchain on it. I have been downloading now for a good two weeks (about 5 hours a day). Thanks for the answer. I don't have anything else on that laptop so I have almost 500 GB free space on hard disk. Now I think that freeze could have been due to overheating. But two weeks for downloading blockchain - that sounds like a lot. What kind of CPU and how much RAM do you have on your computer?
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November 25, 2016, 03:45:13 PM |
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Thanks for the answer. Laptop is new, so there is essentially 500 GB free space, basically I don't have anything else on that laptop . I figured out that maybe that freeze was due to overheating, because that freeze happened after laptop was already working on blockchain for several hours. I will try to find debug.log file and post it.
Bitcoin Core is also extremely hardware intensive. You seem to have fairly low end hardware so Bitcoin Core will probably not run as well as you want it to.
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November 25, 2016, 08:47:18 PM |
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You need good amount of HDD spaces. It's hardware intensive.
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November 25, 2016, 11:32:42 PM |
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It looks like the problem is not due to overheating after all because now it occurs after relatively short period of time and laptop doesn't feel that hot.
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November 25, 2016, 11:36:51 PM |
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The Bitcoin blockchain is much larger and requires more processing power to process than most altcoins.
How much free space do you have on that hard drive before you started Bitcoin Core?
Can you please post the debug.log file?
When I try to view debug.log I get this: There was a problem opening the file “/home/l5/.bitcoin/debug.log”. The file you opened has some invalid characters. If you continue editing this file you could corrupt this document. You can also choose another character encoding and try again. Retry Edit anyway Cancel What should I do? And there is lot of text - should I just copy/paste it here?
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November 26, 2016, 01:25:35 AM |
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When I try to view debug.log I get this: There was a problem opening the file “/home/l5/.bitcoin/debug.log”. The file you opened has some invalid characters. If you continue editing this file you could corrupt this document. You can also choose another character encoding and try again.
Retry Edit anyway Cancel
What should I do?
Edit anyway. Don't actually edit anything and don't save anything when you close the file. And there is lot of text - should I just copy/paste it here?
Yes. If it is too much for here, copy and paste it into a new paste on http://pastebin.com/ and post the link. If it is still too much for that, just paste as much as you can from the bottom of the file.
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November 26, 2016, 11:27:52 AM |
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Thanks for the answer. Laptop is new, so there is essentially 500 GB free space, basically I don't have anything else on that laptop . I figured out that maybe that freeze was due to overheating, because that freeze happened after laptop was already working on blockchain for several hours. I will try to find debug.log file and post it.
How did you partition the disk? How much do you separate? To / home directory Switch to root account You have tried the following commands. Write the output on this subject. fdisk -l /dev/sda df -h find / -name ".bitcoin" -type d
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November 26, 2016, 04:50:46 PM |
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When I try to view debug.log I get this: There was a problem opening the file “/home/l5/.bitcoin/debug.log”. The file you opened has some invalid characters. If you continue editing this file you could corrupt this document. You can also choose another character encoding and try again.
Retry Edit anyway Cancel
What should I do?
Edit anyway. Don't actually edit anything and don't save anything when you close the file. And there is lot of text - should I just copy/paste it here?
Yes. If it is too much for here, copy and paste it into a new paste on http://pastebin.com/ and post the link. If it is still too much for that, just paste as much as you can from the bottom of the file. Here is debug.log: https://paste.ee/p/hu1JF
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November 26, 2016, 05:01:43 PM |
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Thanks for the answer. Laptop is new, so there is essentially 500 GB free space, basically I don't have anything else on that laptop . I figured out that maybe that freeze was due to overheating, because that freeze happened after laptop was already working on blockchain for several hours. I will try to find debug.log file and post it.
How did you partition the disk? How much do you separate? To / home directory Switch to root account You have tried the following commands. Write the output on this subject. fdisk -l /dev/sda df -h find / -name ".bitcoin" -type d Thanks for trying to help. This is the result of fdisk -l /dev/sda: Disk /dev/sda: 465,8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: A7869A7B-98F5-4207-BCCF-11ADFC917D47 Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/sda1 2048 1050623 1048576 512M EFI System /dev/sda2 1050624 2050047 999424 488M Linux filesystem /dev/sda3 2050048 976771071 974721024 464,8G Linux filesystem df -h: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 1,9G 0 1,9G 0% /dev tmpfs 386M 6,3M 379M 2% /run /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root 454G 69G 363G 16% / tmpfs 1,9G 224K 1,9G 1% /dev/shm tmpfs 5,0M 4,0K 5,0M 1% /run/lock tmpfs 1,9G 0 1,9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/sda2 473M 115M 334M 26% /boot /dev/sda1 511M 3,6M 508M 1% /boot/efi tmpfs 386M 56K 385M 1% /run/user/1000 find / -name ".bitcoin" -type d results in find: ‘/run/user/1000/gvfs’: Permission denied
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November 26, 2016, 10:14:37 PM |
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Now Bitcoin Core totally freezes Ubuntu after downloading 3-5 days' worth of data. It is actually downloading blocks quite rapidly until it freezes. CPU usage for bitcoin-qt while it is working is more than 300% most of the time according to "top" (Pentium N3700 has 4 cores).
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November 27, 2016, 03:00:27 PM |
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4GB RAM? Sounds extremely low, please start bitcoin again and before it crashes run free -m , also install iotop and run it and make a screenshot. I don't think that its HDD, mostly RAM, and maybe CPU. If you want to understand better about CPU and processes download HTOP which is easier to use for non-experienced users. I would say most probably its CPU+RAM and maybe you will need to give bitcoin process lower priority and disable memory cache so that it doesn't crash the whole system
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November 27, 2016, 03:28:35 PM Last edit: November 27, 2016, 03:46:48 PM by Fenix_One |
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4GB RAM? Sounds extremely low, please start bitcoin again and before it crashes run free -m , also install iotop and run it and make a screenshot. I don't think that its HDD, mostly RAM, and maybe CPU. If you want to understand better about CPU and processes download HTOP which is easier to use for non-experienced users. I would say most probably its CPU+RAM and maybe you will need to give bitcoin process lower priority and disable memory cache so that it doesn't crash the whole system
Thanks for the answer. With free -m I get this: total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 3850 1799 275 93 1775 1679 Swap: 3995 188 3807 Does that mean almost all memory is used? Only 275 MB free. "maybe you will need to give bitcoin process lower priority and disable memory cache so that it doesn't crash the whole system" How do I do that? This is screenshot from iotop: http://imgur.com/a/rn2TO
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November 27, 2016, 03:53:42 PM |
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Okay, no it doesn't mean that you only have 256 free. Memory and iotop seems fine, but is bitcoin running for few minutes before it crashes? Also share you bitcoin.conf(we want the "dbcache=" variable) file please. Also, print screen your HTOP or TOP -c command output
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November 27, 2016, 04:17:52 PM Last edit: November 27, 2016, 04:29:28 PM by Fenix_One |
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Okay, no it doesn't mean that you only have 256 free. Memory and iotop seems fine, but is bitcoin running for few minutes before it crashes? Also share you bitcoin.conf(we want the "dbcache=" variable) file please. Also, print screen your HTOP or TOP -c command output
Bitcoin Core just froze Ubuntu again, it had been running for about an hour, more often it happens after 15-20 minutes. I was able to download blockchain until 1 year 40 weeks were left, then this problem started. I can't find bitcoin.conf, it should be in /home/username/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf , but it is not there. UPDATE: This is Bitcoin-Qt.conf file from /home/username/.config/Bitcoin : [General] addrProxy=127.0.0.1:9050 addrSeparateProxyTor=127.0.0.1:9050 bSpendZeroConfChange=true fCoinControlFeatures=false fFeeSectionMinimized=true fHideTrayIcon=false fListen=true fMinimizeOnClose=false fMinimizeToTray=false fPayOnlyMinFee=false fReset=false fRestartRequired=false fSendFreeTransactions=false fUseProxy=false fUseSeparateProxyTor=false fUseUPnP=false language= nCustomFeeRadio=0 nDatabaseCache=300 nDisplayUnit=0 nFeeRadio=0 nRPCConsoleWindowPos=@Point(284 -4) nRPCConsoleWindowSize=@Size(740 460) nSettingsVersion=130100 nSmartFeeSliderPosition=0 nThreadsScriptVerif=0 nTransactionFee=0 nWindowPos=@Point(288 -4) nWindowSize=@Size(850 550) strDataDir=/home/l5/.bitcoin strThirdPartyTxUrls= This is HTOP: http://imgur.com/a/WYHGX
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Bitcoin Core just froze Ubuntu again, it had been running for about an hour, more often it happens after 15-20 minutes. I was able to download blockchain until 1 year 40 weeks were left, then this problem started. I can't find bitcoin.conf, it should be in /home/username/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf , but it is not there. UPDATE: This is Bitcoin-Qt.conf file from /home/username/.config/Bitcoin : [/quote] Bitcoin-Qt.conf is not related to this. That is an internal Qt thing. The bitcoin.conf file in ~/.bitcoin does not exist unless you create it. Make a new text file and save it as ~/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf. Then add the following line: This should lower ram usage. The sync will go slowly, but it hopefully won't freeze your computer.
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November 27, 2016, 05:53:13 PM |
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Bitcoin Core just froze Ubuntu again, it had been running for about an hour, more often it happens after 15-20 minutes. I was able to download blockchain until 1 year 40 weeks were left, then this problem started.
I can't find bitcoin.conf, it should be in /home/username/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf , but it is not there.
UPDATE: This is Bitcoin-Qt.conf file from /home/username/.config/Bitcoin :
Bitcoin-Qt.conf is not related to this. That is an internal Qt thing. The bitcoin.conf file in ~/.bitcoin does not exist unless you create it. Make a new text file and save it as ~/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf. Then add the following line: This should lower ram usage. The sync will go slowly, but it hopefully won't freeze your computer. I did this but it froze again after about 20 mins. Maybe there are bad blocks on HDD? Computer is new so I thought that was unlikely.
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