HBN qt wallet currently pushes close to 1GB on the memory.
It is becoming a bit of a concern, the HBN blockchain is gigantic. Have there been any suggestions on how to manage this going forward?
I've had to remove mine from my PI, its just not capable of running it with any confidence.
It is getting very demanding to run, but not sure if this can be helped.
My dedicated staking machine is a mini pc with a 1.8ghz Atom processor and 1 gb of ram. HBN just barely runs. It frequently goes to 'not responding' even though its the only application I have running. I am running the Windows version, I may try the a linux client to see if I can get more performance (I figure running something like Puppy Linux at least would free up more system resources).
But ya, 1.8Ghz with 1 gb of ram in Windows and I can barely even get to sync again (my blockchain got messed up and I've been trying to resync for a least week using the downloaded blockchain but not having much luck).
Not that I'm complaining, I realize a lot of processor power is required. But wanted to say for others who are looking at using a dedicated staking machine, you'll probably want 2GB o rammage.
Side note: damn, wish i bought more coins at 0.00003. I don't know if we'll ever see that price again, who knows.
Yes this can be quite taxing. As the winter months approach I'll begin to see if this is possible to address.
I can tell you that one way to help lower the usage a bit it is use a new wallet. Essentially what you do is start fresh on a new wallet and chain, with no coins in the wallet. Once it is up to speed, transfer all coins from the old wallet to the new wallet. You can do it in chunks or as one big send. You can't do this using the same working directory as the current running wallet, so you can use the startup switch -datadir=c:\newwallet (for example). Or you can do it from another computer. And swap out after the sends are complete.
Depending on how many wallet entries you have, this can save .1 to up to half a gig of memory. I have a wallet running from almost the 1st month of the chain. Staking, sending 24/7. That wallet's memory usage is almost double an empty fresh chain. So it can help if you are a long time user.
As always make backups and be careful!
