bitcoin-qt using a lot of outgoing bandwidth, is this normal?

Melonhead

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Quote from: induktor on April 12, 2013, 05:47:33 PM

Hello

Since the april 10 "crisis"

I have noted that bitcoin-qt wallet is using a lot of outgoing bandwidth, almost 90% of my capacity

I have between 20 and 60 connections to the bitcoin network, any idea if this is normal?

If I shutdown bitcoin-qt the traffic stops.

is there is any way to limit the outgoing bandwidth that it uses? I have no problem helping bitcoin network but when I am unable to work because of low remaining bandwidth is another matter

thanks
Indkt.

Sounds normal. I usually hover between 50 and 60 connections, but I limit my entire network outgoing bandwidth in my router (my ipcop linux box, actually) to 500kbps. I leave my machine on 24x7.

Kluge

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Someone's gotta distribute that fucking blockchain!

Maxconnections and disabling port forwarding is a pretty crude solution. If you're trying to use the Internet outside of hosting the blockchain, you could download a program like NetLimiter and set bandwidth caps either on the program or on the specific peers. Unfortunately, though, Bitcoin itself does not currently have this functionality.

induktor

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Will do it right now!
Thank you!
indkt.

crazy573

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https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Running_Bitcoin

Bitcoin.conf->maxconnections

induktor

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THank you for answer

Do you remember where it was discussed?, because I can't find it.

The connection count, where can I set it?, there are not configuration files for the wallet (at least I cannot find any), the other option is to disable the port forward, that should decrease the amount of people connecting to me, but this is harmful to the comunity and I prefer not to do that.

thanks
indkt.

grue

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this has already been discussed.

tl;dr summary:
it's normal, there's no built-in way of controlling it. partial solution involves setting the connection count to something low.

induktor

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Hello

Since the april 10 "crisis"

I have noted that bitcoin-qt wallet is using a lot of outgoing bandwidth, almost 90% of my capacity

I have between 20 and 60 connections to the bitcoin network, any idea if this is normal?

If I shutdown bitcoin-qt the traffic stops.

is there is any way to limit the outgoing bandwidth that it uses? I have no problem helping bitcoin network but when I am unable to work because of low remaining bandwidth is another matter

thanks
Indkt.

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