blockchain converted successfully, no issue relaunching daemon.
New blockchain.bin file reduced ~13%
I see a reduction in both the virtual and resident memory, but I'm not sure if I'm looking at the correct metrics:
v0.9.1.1 virt: 6548M res: 5157M
bcmreduce virt: 5680M res: 4650M
New test release
Looks like reasonable numbers. It is still an ongoing work item for me to figure out what it is doing with all that memory, since there isn't enough data to fill it. My hope is that the numbers are a bit misleading and a good chunk of the allocated memory is just unused. That wold give a better chance to work in less memory than the numbers indicate once pruning is enabled. In any case this is a temporary solution until we move to a database.
Please continue to report testing results and any issues. But it looks so far like no issues. Hopefully....