Pavel Janík [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2015-10-14 📝 Original message:> I just noticed that ...

📅 Original date posted:2015-10-14
📝 Original message:> 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 at 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).
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Pavel Janík