Quote from: WhitePhantom on April 12, 2013, 06:05:36 PM

Quote from: farfie on April 12, 2013, 05:12:26 PM

Quote from: DrHaribo on April 11, 2013, 07:34:05 AM

Sorry for downtime. We are back up.

bitcoind 0.8.1 seems to have a memory leak, it sometimes expands to several gigabytes of memory usage.

I'll see what I can do to prevent this in the future.

And yeah, backup pool support is at the top of the list, right after ASIC support for the miner.

This isn't really related to the pool, but since you mentioned bugs, my friend and I have noticed another bug about 0.8.1 (or perhaps an extension of the one you already mentioned) that it also causes massive lag when running. It introduces jitter and cuts my speeds down by about 50% give or take it seems, and we verified it many times by letting it run, and turning it off to instantly watch our internet become 100% better instantly.

We were wondering if anyone else has noticed this, or could try it and see? It actually took awhile for us to notice what was causing it, but we were pretty sure something was up (before we knew it was the bitcoin client). The problem was that it's not really a stable lag, and looking back I have no idea how often it would be. Definitely enough to make us angry very often.

We both run Windows 7. Thanks for any input.

Farfie

I don't know if this is related to what you're talking about, but figured I'd chime in. For a few weeks now, my Internet connection has had horrible latency (up to 500ms) on and off when mining with two mini-rigs. This does not occur if I stop mining. I restart my network equipment and it's fixed for a while, but the issue comes back in short order.

Right, this seems pretty dead on. Try turning off your bitcoind (if you're on 0.8.1 anyway, which by your post I'm assuming that's your problem) when the lag seems pretty bad to see if it goes away like we did. We also realized that this started happening about the same time we upgraded to 0.8.1. Only thing is that your lag stops when you stop mining? I also have two mini-rigs, but my lag goes away if I simply turn off bitcoind. My buddy also only has a few singles, and had lag just as bad as mine, which was fixed by also turning his bitcoind off. Try it out.

farfie

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