Topic: [XMR] Monero - A secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency - page 1031. (Read 4670673 times)

Linux mint. I was just using the standard package manager aptget. It didn't install dependencies automatically.

Out of curiosity, what OS do you use? Because typically you'd always use a packet manager (like aptitude), and if you don't it's consciously and on purpose (slackware for instance).

That means, no 10,000 Moneroj for a  pizza.

I can confirm this. Idk what a computer expert is, but I'm more capable than 98% of people atleast. Back when i had to compile it myself that was a huge pain. I'm so glad i could just grab some binaries this time. It was easier with binaries but still a pain. It needed so many dependencies. I wasnt about to sit there and install them all manually one at a time so i went looking for a solution and learned about aptitude. It was a great find, im glad to know about aptitude now. But yea i mean that was a process and involved some research and some time, i had to search around to find something like aptitude then i had to spend a little bit of time with it learning how it worked. Its a very real barrier that not everyone can overcome.

I was a computer expert a few years back and honestly had problems installing the wallet(s) on my Mac. I did finally get it installed but didn't have faith in the installation due to so many problems I experienced. (I got the blockchain downloaded no problem.) I was only able to run the wallet by (excuse my lack of terms here) double clicking an exe file, not from an actual installation. (Something about my Mac environment stopped me from being able to do a true install and it was in the instructions but I couldn't get past it.) So, I didn't want to chance using it. I moved half my XMR's from Poloniex to Mintpal and the latter are history (and it was a nice chunk for me). Rather, those were history as I got them
returned a few weeks back, as did others. Anyway, Had there been an online wallet or even a wallet less problematic on my Mac, I wouldn't have moved any to Mintpal - but my bad as I didn't research the place. It was literally like within a week or two of the move!

I've mined BTC, run a full node, worked in IT, etc. so I really should have figured out the wallet problem within a few hours, didn't, so gave up. I went beyond a typical user install imo.

Suffice to say, there is a whole world of users out there who want a GUI (nothing command line except for higher functionality) due to ease of use. Knowing I was a computer expert and should have figured it out I can understand how lack of a GUI is really holding people back (at least if they experienced problems on install like me, Windows I hadn't heard of being problematic.)

IAS

CAN USE FEARLESS

In reality It is a good thing for us. Think about it.

I have never seen more short sighted people than in this scene. They literally are worse than corporate raiders and give corrupt politicians a run for their money.

Its comical with the GUI wallet.  That's all anyone ever picks on.

thanks for this.

Dude, i linked you the branch that uses a Database and it eats only a very small amount of RAM and has been mentioned a hundred times at least in this thread

Thanks.  I was familiar with the concept of an OOM killer.  I'm a newb at Monero, not Unix / Linux.  So I was really asking if bitmonerod was expected to be a memory hog.


Holy shit, it keeps the **whole blockchain** in memory!  This software is even more primitive than I thought.

I didn't have any swap as I didn't want to wear out my laptop's SSD.  I've now added a 2TB USB3 disk as encrypted swap while I'm playing with Monero.

My first cross post but I'd really like some input from any of your regarding my question about buying a cheaper smart phone for spending BTC (and Monero).
I didn't mention Monero in the thread as that just crossed my mind. Having the ability at least makes it possible, when you go the shops and such
that do except BTC. I guess I need to consider the O.S. should Monero put out a wallet app for smart phones.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1006244.new#new

Appreciated,
Its about sharing

Just use the blockchain branch:

https://github.com/tewinget/bitmonero/tree/blockchain

Yes. If you don't have enough memory backing, the kernel will kill (almost) whatever process it thinks will help get the system best. Since bitmonerod is a hog, it's often the sacrifice choice. Firefox is also a good one. You may want to temporarily stop memory hungry processes while bitmonerod is running.

To avoid that, you can increase swap (or add some if you don't have any), or overcommit memory.

Some details and instructions:

https://forum.getmonero.org/5/support/74/increase-swap-space-for-blockchain

I just got up and went to check sync progress for my first ever Monero sync.

The xterm in which I had launched monerod in the foreground had the following output at the end:

2015-Mar-29 06:43:34.867898 [P2P3][46.166.188.212:14630 INC]Sync data returned unknown top block: 354494 -> 496973 [142479 blocks (98 days) behind] 
SYNCHRONIZATION started
Killed

So I look in syslog and find a load of stuff about being out of memory:

Mar 29 06:44:04 rosti kernel: [12411960.385984]  [] out_of_memory+0x4cd/0x510
Mar 29 06:44:04 rosti kernel: [12411960.386247] Out of memory: Kill process 7956 (bitmonerod) score 641 or sacrifice child
Mar 29 06:44:04 rosti kernel: [12411960.386249] Killed process 7956 (bitmonerod) total-vm:6039844kB, anon-rss:5153036kB, file-rss:0kB

This is on my workstation with 8 GiB RAM.  Is this a known issue?

Also occasionally, instead of someone asking that, they will just think to themselves "so it depends on other transactions being present in each block", and go away feeling uneasy about the design of the whole thing.

In other words, not a "simplification" to be encouraged.

Monero one rights coin and secure too

just curious if Mr. 4000 xmr above here got it all squared away?

Locked coins are what you know from Bitcoin as "change".

If you have an output of 10 xmr and pay 5 xmr to someone you get 5 xmr back - the change money. Same as for Dollarbills etc.
Those are available to spend after they have been confirmed 6 times.
Basically you send 5 coins to the receiver and you send 5 coins back to you, both transactions need to get confirmations before they are unlocked.


It's the same, your change-transaction is send to your wallet and waits for confirmation, while i write that here your coins should already be unlocked (confirmed) again.

Curious - I sent 10 XMR out of my wallet, and it seems to have locked a bunch of my coins?


Anyone know whats up here?  Using simplewallet v0.8.8.7-cd31ea9  (built the binary from GIT yesterday - the wallet I created in May 2014)

I've only ever seen unlocked balances while waiting for incoming confirmations on transfers to my wallet.