I found this page
https://gist.github.com/laanwj/efe29c7661ce9b6620a7 and it says
-maxconnections= - the maximum number of connections, this defaults to 125. Each active connection takes up some memory. Only significant if incoming connections are enabled, otherwise the number of connections will never be more than 8.
The part that I am most interest in is,
Each active connection takes up some memory. Only significant if incoming connections are enabled. How much memory would each connection need/use?
It doesn't seem that limiting it to values lower than 10 reduce the memory usage much further according to my results. Take for example, a Bitcoin and an altcoin (TekCoin) daemon:
The configuration is limited to 3:
Bitcoin is currently connected to 3 peers:
The memory usage
1702 nobody 13 22 2 720M 304M uwait 653:12 0.00% /usr/local/bin/bitcoind -conf=/usr/local/etc/bitcoin.conf -d
For my altcoin, I have limited it to 10
It currently has 8 peers connected
The memory usage
29953 nobody 11 52 20 414M 345M wait 1 4:10 4.93% /usr/local/bin/tekcoind -conf=/usr/local/etc/tekcoin.conf
I currently have all my coin daemons limited to 3 connections thinking it will save RAM, but it looks like I may not be. Also, is it true that if I have it limited to a value less than 8, then the daemon will not accept incoming connections?
