Sometimes, I want to play a game or watch an online video on my machine, and I find that often times the upload bandwidth being used by bitcoin can cause latency or other issues with these activities. I request a way to pause and resume all bitcoin related network traffic, preferably through the gui. Perhaps it can have an optional time component so that it restart automatically after an hour or so, so that the client is not wasting time if forgotten about. I think that this option would be preferable to having to quit the program and then restart it, which can take up quite some time and a great deal of disk activity by reloading the block chain.Thank you.
Feature Request: Pause/Resume network activity #1958
issue Azulan opened this issue on October 25, 2012-
Azulan commented at 7:21 AM on October 25, 2012: none
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laanwj commented at 7:25 AM on October 26, 2012: member
It's related, but much easier to implement.
I don't see bandwidth throttling coming any time soon, but a toggle to stop/restart networking could be implemented with minimal impact on the core (and would also be useful for testing, I suppose).
- jonls cross-referenced this on Mar 26, 2013 from issue Network activity toggle by jonls
- brandondahler cross-referenced this on Apr 7, 2013 from issue Allow capping of bandwidth on overall or command-specific basis, reset via cron-like expression by brandondahler
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jonasschnelli commented at 9:18 AM on March 14, 2015: contributor
related to #5314
- laanwj cross-referenced this on Feb 1, 2016 from issue Turning off the blockchain downloading by ghost
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jonasschnelli commented at 1:54 PM on July 6, 2016: contributor
Is implemented in #5314 but needs update. In the "paused" mode, we should still broadcast transaction and maybe warn the user if he has paused over a couple of possible blocks.
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jonasschnelli commented at 10:18 AM on November 11, 2016: contributor
Closing, solved by #8996.
- jonasschnelli closed this on Nov 11, 2016
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