I have 2 Gb ram in windows 8.1. This work very fine.
Windows 8? What wallet are you using for it to be working on Windows 8?
Topic: Is 2gb ram enough for Bitcoin-qt (Read 2420 times)
Windows 8? What wallet are you using for it to be working on Windows 8?
I have 2 Gb ram in windows 8.1. This work very fine.
Use electrum its a lightweight wallet which doesn't use much ram at all far less than the official wallet.
My 1gb laptop running Linux does fine but there is no other applications running only process that need to be running.
RAM itself is not the issue. You need a high speed connection if you dont want to wait for days, and a big HDD.
Especially if you are mining you want the blocks to be broadcasted as quickly as found, so high speed connection is essential.
Especially if you are mining you want the blocks to be broadcasted as quickly as found, so high speed connection is essential.
512 Mb ram is fine for bitcoin-qt until you will run other applications
My old laptop running windows xp has 1G ram and has no problems with running bitcoin core. It's slow but it works.
Just increase the ram, and it will be more enough.
If you want to get the wallet run smoothly, just increase the ram size and it will be enough.
If you want to get the wallet run smoothly, just increase the ram size and it will be enough.
I installed Bitcoin-qt on my iMac with 8 GB of RAM a few weeks ago and even over my 80 Mb internet connection, the sync still took almost 5 days.
yes you need big ram if you want to run the wallet smoothly
database size is big and this wallet need to sync database and if you will run wallet with small ram then it will decrease performance of your system
database size is big and this wallet need to sync database and if you will run wallet with small ram then it will decrease performance of your system
Whoaa.. Planning to do btc mining but its very expensive. 2gb I think wont do it.
Yes 2GB of RAM is enough if your other processes are using less than about 1GB of memory (the client appears to use close to 1GB).
I have had trouble syncing namecoin on my machine with 1GB of RAM. I was going to try syncing with the block chain on a disk separate from the swap-file. Sort of overlooked how anemic my memory situation is
I have had trouble syncing namecoin on my machine with 1GB of RAM. I was going to try syncing with the block chain on a disk separate from the swap-file. Sort of overlooked how anemic my memory situation is
I think using 2gb ram is bit on the limit. But it should be enough with some additional tricks.
If you want to reduce the amount of ram put:
dbcache=4
in your bitcoin.conf.
dbcache=4
in your bitcoin.conf.
Syncing has nothing to do with your RAM check your bandwidth slow connection slow syncing and Check if there's enough space.
Currently blockchain takes 27.6 Gig of space.
Currently blockchain takes 27.6 Gig of space.
Also check with your doctor that you have enough years left of life to download and sync
haha sure will do
but it's already downloaded and synced. 
and @cr1776 op specified later on that it's linux.Was speaking from my personal experiences and as you said *known* and now i know too lesson learned.
Thanks for clarifying it.
Hopefully no doctors are need! ;-)
With headers first and other improvements that are upcoming, initial sync should improve - plus thin clients will help.
:-)
Syncing has nothing to do with your RAM check your bandwidth slow connection slow syncing and Check if there's enough space.
Currently blockchain takes 27.6 Gig of space.
Currently blockchain takes 27.6 Gig of space.
Also check with your doctor that you have enough years left of life to download and sync
haha sure will do
but it's already downloaded and synced. and @cr1776 op specified later on that it's linux.Was speaking from my personal experiences and as you said *known* and now i know too lesson learned.
Thanks for clarifying it.
Syncing has nothing to do with your RAM check your bandwidth slow connection slow syncing and Check if there's enough space.
Currently blockchain takes 27.6 Gig of space.
Currently blockchain takes 27.6 Gig of space.
Also check with your doctor that you have enough years left of life to download and sync
For your issue, try turning on swap in Ubuntu, something like this:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-add-swap-on-ubuntu-12-04
I would use at least an 8GB swap file if you have plenty of free space on your drive, that will give you room later if needed.
As for BiTJack, you can ignore her/his advice, he is still are wrong and just doesn't know it. First, BiTJack:
1. He isn't talking about Windows.
2. Windows has had *known* memory issues even with the 4GB of RAM and 32 bit windows - for example, see this https://bitcoin.org/bin/0.9.0/README.txt
http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-fixes-bugs-updates-block-size-limits/
There have been frequent reports of Windows users running out of RAM on 32 bit systems during the initial sync even with 4GB of RAM, let alone 2 GB.
"Ram is only prior to running the program when you have a running qt no matter what windows will reserve the memory for it." makes no sense. RAM can and is allocated dynamically. There are many threads discussing the issue with initial sync and low memory on Windows and other systems.
In short, 2GB is not enough memory in many, many cases for an initial sync. 4GB can have problems on 32 bit Windows also.
Yes it does. Please do some homework prior to dismissing something like that. You do not know what you are talking about.
If you are running Linux, turn swap on. If you are running Windows, you can check to see what else is running. Ditto Mac OS X.
Edit: As Welsh said, bandwidth (and having a fast peer) is important too. Future versions will sync from multiple nodes which should speed this up.
Running a non gui program in windows requires ram too it's a matter of common sense that it is required. The question relates to Syncing.
Ram is only prior to running the program when you have a running qt no matter what windows will reserve the memory for it.
Yes, you can check and stop what else is running and what's taking more memory. In Op's case it's more than enough.
If the program is running fine and and you can't sync up it's either the hard drive space or the internet connectivity.
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-add-swap-on-ubuntu-12-04
I would use at least an 8GB swap file if you have plenty of free space on your drive, that will give you room later if needed.
As for BiTJack, you can ignore her/his advice, he is still are wrong and just doesn't know it. First, BiTJack:
1. He isn't talking about Windows.
2. Windows has had *known* memory issues even with the 4GB of RAM and 32 bit windows - for example, see this https://bitcoin.org/bin/0.9.0/README.txt
http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-fixes-bugs-updates-block-size-limits/
There have been frequent reports of Windows users running out of RAM on 32 bit systems during the initial sync even with 4GB of RAM, let alone 2 GB.
"Ram is only prior to running the program when you have a running qt no matter what windows will reserve the memory for it." makes no sense. RAM can and is allocated dynamically. There are many threads discussing the issue with initial sync and low memory on Windows and other systems.
In short, 2GB is not enough memory in many, many cases for an initial sync. 4GB can have problems on 32 bit Windows also.
Running Bitcoin-QT requires both computer performance & bandwidth. (Like many other programs)
Ain't it common sense that it is required to run programs in any platform.Syncing has nothing to do with your RAM check your bandwidth slow connection slow syncing and Check if there's enough space.
Currently blockchain takes 27.6 Gig of space.
Currently blockchain takes 27.6 Gig of space.
Yes it does. Please do some homework prior to dismissing something like that. You do not know what you are talking about.
If you are running Linux, turn swap on. If you are running Windows, you can check to see what else is running. Ditto Mac OS X.
Edit: As Welsh said, bandwidth (and having a fast peer) is important too. Future versions will sync from multiple nodes which should speed this up.
Running a non gui program in windows requires ram too it's a matter of common sense that it is required. The question relates to Syncing.
Ram is only prior to running the program when you have a running qt no matter what windows will reserve the memory for it.
Yes, you can check and stop what else is running and what's taking more memory. In Op's case it's more than enough.
If the program is running fine and and you can't sync up it's either the hard drive space or the internet connectivity.
Running Bitcoin-QT requires both computer performance & bandwidth. (Like many other programs)
Ain't it common sense that it is required to run programs in any platform.Syncing has nothing to do with your RAM check your bandwidth slow connection slow syncing and Check if there's enough space.
Currently blockchain takes 27.6 Gig of space.
Currently blockchain takes 27.6 Gig of space.
Yes it does. Please do some homework prior to dismissing something like that. You do not know what you are talking about.
If you are running Linux, turn swap on. If you are running Windows, you can check to see what else is running. Ditto Mac OS X.
Edit: As Welsh said, bandwidth (and having a fast peer) is important too. Future versions will sync from multiple nodes which should speed this up.
Running a non gui program in windows requires ram too it's a matter of common sense that it is required. The question relates to Syncing.
Ram is only prior to running the program when you have a running qt no matter what windows will reserve the memory for it.
Yes, you can check and stop what else is running and what's taking more memory. In Op's case it's more than enough.
If the program is running fine and and you can't sync up it's either the hard drive space or the internet connectivity.
I know it's pushing it abit. It used to work with the odd syncing problems but now it seems I can't get it to sync.
I think the ram might be the core problem here is it?
I think the ram might be the core problem here is it?
Actually, what you need is good connection speed and hard disk space.
Got plenty available.
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