You may want to add a cron job to restart bitcoind every day or two as a damage control mechanism until we figure this out. On Oct 22, 2015, at 9:06 AM, Multipool Admin wrote: > This is a real issue. The bitcoind process is getting killed every few days when it reaches around 55gb of usage on my server. > > On Oct 21, 2015 12:29 AM, "Tom Zander via bitcoin-dev" wrote: > On Tuesday 20 Oct 2015 20:01:16 Jonathan Toomim wrote: > > claimed that he had this memory usage issue on Linux, but not on Mac OS X, > > under a GBT workload in both situations. If this is true, that would > > suggest this might be a fragmentation issue due to poor memory allocation. > > Please make sure you measure your memory usage correctly on Linux, it is > notoriously easy to get misleading info from tools like top. > > I use this one on Linux. > > $cat ~/bin/showmemusage > #!/bin/sh > if test -z "$1"; then > echo "need a pid" > exit > fi > > mem=`echo 0 $(cat /proc/$1/smaps | grep Pss | awk '{print $2}' | \ > sed 's#^#+#' ) | bc` > echo "$mem KB" > > _______________________________________________ > bitcoin-dev mailing list > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bitcoin-xt" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bitcoin-xt+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.