Thanks to everyone for the replies.
I do mostly just turn it on when I need to perform a transaction now. The slowness is a problem even for the time that it needs to do that. An online wallet would solve the problem all right but that defeats a lot of the things that made bitcoin attractive to me.
For the moment electrum looks good. I might dig out an old HD to dedicate to bitcoin. Maybe an SD card will do. A transplant for long-term health after the emergency CPR!
I imagine the problem will only get worse as bitcoin becomes more popular. It's a bit worrying for the future of bitcoin. Will the cumulative burden eventually overwhelm even hi-spec dedicated bitcoin servers?
More people that I talk to now already know about bitcoin, and it's getting to the point where I can basically assume that anybody I meet that knows about Linux also knows about bitcoin. I hope the system doesn't get overwhelmed.
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Dedicated server perhaps? And RDP to it when you need to perform a transaction?
You can always have your client off and only start it when you need to send a transaction or when you're expecting one.
Works for most of my friends.
I also recommend the CPR. Don't let it die.
Works for most of my friends.
I also recommend the CPR. Don't let it die.
You need to perform CPR or your computer will suffocate and die.
If you have desktop machine, alternate solution is to have dedicated HDD for bitcoin, so that it isn't trashing rest of system. Even old IDE relic will do (it may only have sluggish response sometimes).
u can use an online wallet, too. but take into account that it's online
https://www.strongcoin.com/
https://www.strongcoin.com/
Yes. I've heard Electrum is good, though I haven't used it myself. Read up on it before installing.
http://ecdsa.org/electrum/
http://ecdsa.org/electrum/
Thanks, Sergeant,
Is there a lite client for linux?
Is there a lite client for linux?
Use a lite client. Bitcoin is getting more and more cumbersome to run the full client. The only solution (for now) is to let dedicated servers run the software, and utilize it with a lite client.
Hello all,
When I run bitcoin lately I've found that my computer becomes very slow. Iotop tells me that bitcoin is reading/writing about 1 MB per second all the time and taking up between 30 and 90% of my cpu.
Is anybody else having this problem? Is there a way to fix it?
When I run bitcoin lately I've found that my computer becomes very slow. Iotop tells me that bitcoin is reading/writing about 1 MB per second all the time and taking up between 30 and 90% of my cpu.
Is anybody else having this problem? Is there a way to fix it?
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