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From: "Pavel Janík" <Pavel@Janik.cz>
To: "Jonathan Toomim (Toomim Bros)" <j@toom.im>
Cc: Bitcoin development mailing list <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Memory leaks?
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 09:22:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8F8ADC9B-BF4E-45E2-B96F-A9D040D0460C@Janik.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <99C42DE7-814A-48F8-AB28-A5ADD77A9FD9@toom.im>

> I just noticed that several of my running bitcoind processes were using around 3+ GB of RAM, even though the mempool itself seemed to be under control.
> 
> XXXX@prime:~/bin$ ./bitcoin-cli getmempoolinfo
> {
>     "size" : 1896,
>     "bytes" : 37341328
> }
> 
> [total memory usage not shown -- I restarted bitcoind as soon as I noticed, and didn't copy it down from top]

The newer versions contain much more accurate reporting of memorypool usage that reflect the real memory usage:

{
  "size": 58536,
  "bytes": 770044257,
  "usage": 1652554832
}

See PR #6410 (Implement accurate memory accounting for mempool).
--  
Pavel Janík






  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-10-14  7:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-13 21:56 [bitcoin-dev] Memory leaks? Jonathan Toomim (Toomim Bros)
2015-10-13 22:49 ` odinn
2015-10-13 23:14   ` Jonathan Toomim (Toomim Bros)
2015-10-13 23:52     ` Dave Scotese
2015-10-14  0:08       ` Jonathan Toomim (Toomim Bros)
2015-10-14  0:25         ` Dave Scotese
2015-10-13 23:59     ` odinn
2015-10-14  7:22 ` Pavel Janík [this message]
2015-10-14  7:58 ` Tom Zander
2015-10-14  9:09   ` Mike Hearn
2015-10-14 15:19     ` odinn
2015-10-14  9:39 ` Wladimir J. van der Laan
2015-10-18 15:59   ` Jonathan Toomim
2015-10-19 19:17     ` Multipool Admin
2015-10-19 22:24       ` Multipool Admin
2015-10-20 10:12       ` Mike Hearn
2015-10-20 12:39         ` Jonathan Toomim
2015-10-21  3:01           ` Jonathan Toomim
2015-10-21  7:29             ` Tom Zander
2015-10-21 17:58               ` Jonathan Toomim
2015-10-22 16:06               ` Multipool Admin
2015-10-22 16:27                 ` Jonathan Toomim
2015-10-22 17:01                   ` Btc Drak
2015-10-23  6:41                     ` Rusty Russell
2015-10-21  7:59             ` Ross Bennetts
2015-10-17  4:37 ` admin

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