same, after 30minutes > VIRT = ~40g  and keeps rising (16 core xeon)

so actually the difficulty is even higher with this leak? maybe a good moment to start mmc 3.0 after all what happened

Now that we have bitcoind installed, let’s talk about why it’s going to be a big maintenance headache. When bitcoind runs, and especially when it is initially downloading blocks, its memory usage will increase steadily until it is extremely high. Once it gets high enough, your machine will likely run out of memory and kill the process to recover. This seems to happen especially frequently if you are in a paravirtualized environment (e.g. OpenVZ) where the hypervisor is particularly careful about memory usage.