I tried to run bitcoin again recently, for about the first time in a year. It slowed down my machine (3ghz dual core, 2gb ram) to a crawl for the entire time it was running. I left it three days except for shutting down occasionally so I could do other things, and finally gave up waiting. I have 4.5GB of blockchain and it's still not up to date. The last time I ran it was no problem at all and caught up from nothing in less than an hour, but the current version is HORRIBLE. On 25 January 2013 13:07, GJB <kiwigb(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Is this guy in the thread below (30/06/2011) (who was that btw?) still having trouble running the bitcoin client? I've never heard of any runaway, machine-killing process associated with bitcoin before ... except for intentionally setting off a mining job :)
cheers.
On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 10:36 +1300, mailinglist wrote:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/internet/ripple-credit-system-could-help-or...
On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:25:55 +1200, Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote:
Hi All.
I didn't make it to the presentation, but I downloaded the bitcoin software and tried it out. It pretty much rendered my pc un-usable after a couple of mins until I managed to close it via the file menu. Some how it caused my machine to swap like hell, and xorg ended up using several gigs of ram, see the top image attached.
My pc is reasonably powerful, 6 gig ram, quad core cpu etc. running ubuntu 11.04, a 1gb gfx card so I wouldn't expect this to cause it to act like a lemon.
Any one got any ideas, I ran the 64 bit gui version from the source forge site...
cheers
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Chris O'Halloran wrote:
Hello All,
Here is some more information from Greg's note at last Friday's presentation.
I'd also like to thank Greg for volunteering to talk and for such a well presented and technical topic. Seeing the data miner in action was also a bonus.
Attached is the email that Greg sent to Bruce and myself earlier this week. It seems as though there is plenty more reading on the topic.
I've also loaded Greg's presentation to google docs so that those that weren't at the meeting can appreciate the presentation.
Hi Chris, Bruce,
as discussed here's the slideshow and talk-notes from last night I promised I'd send to you to forward on to relevant people, (group-wide bounced me on the email size limit).
Also here's a list of relevant links as requested;
Project home page http://www.bitcoin.org/ [1]
Wiki Main_Page https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Main_Page [2]
Network status live feed http://www.bitcoinwatch.com/ [3]
Forum https://forum.bitcoin.org/ [4]
Layman promo video site http://www.weusecoins.com/ [5]
Instawallet (web wallet) https://www.instawallet.org [6]
API -reference pages https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/API_reference_(JSON-RPC) [7] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Original_Bitcoin_client/API_Calls_list [8]
Monetary theory - Austrian economics
http://www.libertariannews.org/2011/06/18/the-economics-of-bitcoin-how-bitco...
[9]
http://austrianeconomists.typepad.com/weblog/2009/05/the-best-of-modern-aust...
[10] http://mises.org/journals/qjae/pdf/qjae9_4_5.pdf [11] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_School [12] http://mises.org/ [13]
Szabo bitgold post http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2005/12/bit-gold.html [14]
Namecoin, distributed DNS Dot-bit project homepage http://dot-bit.org/Main_Page [15]
Feel free to email me for further links or information.
Cheers,
Greg B.
Link to Greg's Bit Coin presentation [16]
Link to Gregs' presentation notes [17]
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