Bitcoin core sucking up all the juices

[DYING_S0UL]

And look, I don't have a bad hardware: 16GB DDR4 RAM, 2TB SSD, Intel i7 11th Gen...
Right now, I'm running Bitcoin Core, and neither it nor other processes are crashing. Occasionally, it doesn't crash at all, I have a ton of processes open here.

I have never seen Bitcoin Core crashing on my system. The only issue was the slowness either because of my crap router or the speed.
Mine is 32GB Corsair DDR5, 1TB SSD (with Dram), AMD Ryzen 9 7900X, ASUF TUF Gaming B850M Plus, Gigabyte Aorus Elite 850W 80 Plus Platinum, unfortunately no GPU (flexing a little  )

Sometimes the problem is the router.

The other day, I went to my mom's house and asked her to replace the router. She has a good and fast internet plan, but accessing websites and videos was very slow. So, the ISP replaced the router for free with a new one with 5G, and the entire slowdown issue was resolved.

Time to change it then!

This may seem funny, but sometimes when I'm facing issues with the speed, like damn slow as you described, I would just power on off my router a couple of times. And many times it worked..

[Satofan44]

And look, I don't have a bad hardware: 16GB DDR4 RAM, 2TB SSD, Intel i7 11th Gen...
Right now, I'm running Bitcoin Core, and neither it nor other processes are crashing. Occasionally, it doesn't crash at all, I have a ton of processes open here.

I have never seen Bitcoin Core crashing on my system. The only issue was the slowness either because of my crap router or the speed.
Mine is 32GB Corsair DDR5, 1TB SSD (with Dram), AMD Ryzen 9 7900X, ASUF TUF Gaming B850M Plus, Gigabyte Aorus Elite 850W 80 Plus Platinum (flexing a little  )

It should never crash your system. If it does even occasionally it shows an intermittent software or hardware fault, so in your case that is a good sign. In the case of the other person it is not a good sign, but exploring that would be off topic. You have a pretty good system, you can definitely afford a decent router.  

It should suppprt QoS. I'll confirm it after I get back home.

No updates on any of this yet?

My apologies, I forgot about updating you. I didn't find any option named QoS in my router setting or maybe I was looking at the wrong place or it was named something else! So I asked ChatGPT whether my router (TP-Link wireless N router WR840N) supported QoS. It said it does but only the basics, rule based something, not anything advance.

That is a pretty old and budget solution, it may be the source of the problem. In any case you will reap some benefits from upgrading your router. I think that this model has not been updated in a long time unless the quick research that I did produced incorrect results. That itself is not a good sign. If you are not familiar with routers, I guess members here could help you pick depending on what is available. Just don't spend too much money, they can be quite expensive and have features which are important for you.

How are you connecting to your local ISP guy? Wired or wirelessly?

I should probably change my router now, it's quite old, and it doesn't even supports 5 GHz band. Nowadays all the routers comes with duel band support as well as advance control features.  

Actually many routers even support three bands now, and some even have band merging so you won't see 3 separate networks! 2.4, 5, and 6 GHz.

[LoyceV]

This may seem funny, but sometimes when I'm facing issues with the speed, like damn slow as you described, I would just power on off my router a couple of times. And many times it worked..

Back in the days when I had the crappy router, that was indeed be the first thing my ISP would tell me. At some point they even told me to regularly power cycle the damn thing, so "it wouldn't get full".
Your current hardware specs explain why Bitcoin Core is more demanding than your potato system. I notice my 16 GB is the bottleneck now, you won't have that problem.

For what it's worth: it's literally what Bitcoin Core warns you about when you first start it up:

The initial synchronisation is very demanding, and may expose hardware problems with your computer that had previously gone unnoticed.

I've seen many topics that relate to just hardware problems over the years.

[DYING_S0UL]

That is a pretty old and budget solution, it may be the source of the problem. In any case you will reap some benefits from upgrading your router. I think that this model has not been updated in a long time unless the quick research that I did produced incorrect results. That itself is not a good sign. If you are not familiar with routers, I guess members here could help you pick depending on what is available. Just don't spend too much money, they can be quite expensive and have features which are important for you.

How are you connecting to your local ISP guy? Wired or wirelessly?

Actually many routers even support three bands now, and some even have band merging so you won't see 3 separate networks! 2.4, 5, and 6 GHz.

I googled a bit, asked chatGPT, and according to them this particular model was released in 2015. Lol, I think I have been using a 10 year old crap!

Wired connection mate! We don't have StarLink or satellite here, LOL.

Wait what when did that happened? I have only seen duel band (2.4, 5 GHz) here at my place, even that it new to many people.

This may seem funny, but sometimes when I'm facing issues with the speed, like damn slow as you described, I would just power on off my router a couple of times. And many times it worked..

Back in the days when I had the crappy router, that was indeed be the first thing my ISP would tell me. At some point they even told me to regularly power cycle the damn thing, so "it wouldn't get full".
Your current hardware specs explain why Bitcoin Core is more demanding than your potato system. I notice my 16 GB is the bottleneck now, you won't have that problem.

For what it's worth: it's literally what Bitcoin Core warns you about when you first start it up:

The initial synchronisation is very demanding, and may expose hardware problems with your computer that had previously gone unnoticed.

I've seen many topics that relate to just hardware problems over the years.

Yup, I had a mess up recently, so I'm re-syncing everything from the start. So it might be one of those cases.

Note that, back in the days (1 year ago), when I ran the Bitcoin core using my potato laptop with the same shitty router, I never encountered this issue.


I'll let you guys know after 100% sync, whether this problems remains or not! Btw, it's still "jamming" everything when I run it.

[ABCbits]

So I asked ChatGPT whether my router (TP-Link wireless N router WR840N) supported QoS. It said it does but only the basics, rule based something, not anything advance.

ChatGPT probably give wrong information. I tried searching "qos" and "quality of service" on user guide for your router[1-2] with zero text result. So it's possible your modem doesn't even let you configure QoS at all.

And look, I don't have a bad hardware: 16GB DDR4 RAM, 2TB SSD, Intel i7 11th Gen...
Right now, I'm running Bitcoin Core, and neither it nor other processes are crashing. Occasionally, it doesn't crash at all, I have a ton of processes open here.

I have never seen Bitcoin Core crashing on my system. The only issue was the slowness either because of my crap router or the speed.
Mine is 32GB Corsair DDR5, 1TB SSD (with Dram), AMD Ryzen 9 7900X, ASUF TUF Gaming B850M Plus, Gigabyte Aorus Elite 850W 80 Plus Platinum, unfortunately no GPU (flexing a little  )

Your system specification is great, which confirm my previous statement. Weird it doesn't have GPU, but integrated graphic on CPU these days is more than enough for watching high resolution video and even some old/online game.

[1] https://static.tp-link.com/res/down/doc/TL-WR840N_V1_UG.pdf
[2] https://static.tp-link.com/res/down/doc/TL-WR840N_V2_UG.pdf

[DYING_S0UL]

ChatGPT probably give wrong information. I tried searching "qos" and "quality of service" on user guide for your router[1-2] with zero text result. So it's possible your modem doesn't even let you configure QoS at all.

Your system specification is great, which confirm my previous statement. Weird it doesn't have GPU, but integrated graphic on CPU these days is more than enough for watching high resolution video and even some old/online game.

Yeah, thats pretty likely if we consider its release year, my guess it probably never came out with QoS support in the first place, if it were my router would have some settings to enable it but I didn't find any, unfortunately.

As for the GPU, well….. that's the obvious part, isn't it? I simply ran out of money! Anyway, I'm hoping to grab one next Friday.

At this moment, my budget only allows me this one (well balances with my current build): https://www.startech.com.bd/msi-geforce-rtx-5060-ti-16g-shadow-2x-oc-plus-graphics-card

Sorry for going off topic a bit.