[Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Bug#701915: Bug#701915: bitcoin-qt uses too much outgoing bandwidth

[Noel David Torres Taño]

On Jueves, 28 de febrero de 2013 18:41:50 Scott Howard wrote:
> forwarded 701915 https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/273
> severity 701915 wishlist
> tags 701915 upstream
> thanks
> 
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Noel David Torres Taño
> 
> <envite at rolamasao.org> wrote:
> > Package: bitcoin-qt
> > Version: 0.7.2-2
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > Dear Maintainer,
> > 
> > I left bitcoin-qt running one complete day, and I started to notice my
> > Internet connection was slow. nethogs showed me that there were a
> > process using port 8333 continuously wasting near 200KB/s, and netstat
> > told me that the culprit was bitcoin-qt I expect bitcoin-qt to be nice
> > to other network processes, or to be configurable with a maximum
> > bandwith usage like aMule is. It actually eats almost all my outgoing
> > bandwidth each time I left it running some time.
> 
> This is known issue, see [1,2]. It is suggested that you use one of
> the following:
> 
> Command line options for bitcoin-qt
> -maxconnections=<n>    Maintain at most <n> connections to peers (default:
> 125) -listen                Accept connections from outside (default: 1 if
> no -proxy or -connect)
> 
> so set maxconnections to something smaller or "-listen 0".
> 
> Upstream developers suggest turning off "listen" by using the command
> line options or config file. I'll leave this open as a pointer for
> others who are interested in it as well.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/273
> [2] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=100779.0

Thanks

I want my client to be a full memeber of the bitcoin community, so I'll not 
set -listen 0
Is there a fixed amount of outgoing bandwidth per connection? If not, even -
maxconnections=1 will experience same issue, I fear.

Thanks anyway

er Envite
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