So just for a test I'm running it again now. I checked and there isn't
even the option of CPU mining any more.
My load average has jumped to 2.5, it's normally around 0.1
CPU and memory used by bitcoin seem quite reasonable (both under 10%)
At the moment other programs are behaving but I have bursts where
everything gets painfully slow. When I type, it takes five or ten
seconds for the words to appear. Firefox keeps going grey. This ONLY
happens while bitcoin is running, if I stop it everything goes back to
normal.
On 26 January 2013 11:32, Bruce Kingsbury <zcat(a)zcat.geek.nz> wrote:
I'm not MINING though.. just trying to find out if
someone sent a few
bitcoin since the last time I ran it.
On 26 January 2013 11:18, Wolfgang <wv99999(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> To quote (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin)
> quote-start
> The network as of 2012 required over one million times more work for
> confirming a block and receiving an award (25 BTC starting from 28 November
> 2012) than when the first blocks were confirmed. The network adjusts the
> difficulty every 2016 blocks based on the time taken to find the previous
> 2016 blocks such that one block is created roughly every 10 minutes.
> end-of-quote
>
>
> On 26/01/13 10:01, Bruce Kingsbury wrote:
>
> 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-o…
>
> 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-bitc…
>
> [9]
>
>
http://austrianeconomists.typepad.com/weblog/2009/05/the-best-of-modern-aus…
>
> [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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>
>
> Links:
> ------
> [1]
http://www.bitcoin.org/
> [2]
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Main_Page
> [3]
http://www.bitcoinwatch.com/
> [4]
https://forum.bitcoin.org/
> [5]
http://www.weusecoins.com/
> [6]
https://www.instawallet.org/
> [7]
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/API_reference_%28JSON-RPC%29
> [8]
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Original_Bitcoin_client/API_Calls_list
> [9]
>
>
http://www.libertariannews.org/2011/06/18/the-economics-of-bitcoin-how-bitc…
> [10]
>
>
http://austrianeconomists.typepad.com/weblog/2009/05/the-best-of-modern-aus…
> [11]
http://mises.org/journals/qjae/pdf/qjae9_4_5.pdf
> [12]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_School
> [13]
http://mises.org/
> [14]
http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2005/12/bit-gold.html
> [15]
http://dot-bit.org/Main_Page
> [16]
>
>
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v|+|amp|+|pid=explorer|+|amp|+|chrome=true…
> [17]
>
>
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v|+|amp|+|pid=explorer|+|amp|+|chrome=true…
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