Ability to pause bitcoin miming while running the gui #5986

issue ScottDeans opened this issue on April 8, 2015

ScottDeans commented at 9:15 PM on April 8, 2015: none

When i was testing bitcoin i kept running low on physical memory so i was not able to launch the app, so it would be good to have the ability to run bitcoin gui without the need to have its mining running,
sipa commented at 10:17 PM on April 8, 2015: member

You almost certainly do not have a miner running when using the Bitcoin GUI (unless you called the setgenerate RPC, or started with the -gen command-line option).

Bitcoin Core implements a full node, which validates all transactions on the network (including all of history, when it first runs). Likely the load on your system you are seeing is just due to work for this validation.

If you're not willing or not capable of running a full node due to the resources it requires, you can use different Bitcoin software with different security models.
colinkelly commented at 4:17 PM on April 9, 2015: none

It may simply be that your bitcoin client is downloading the blockchain... which is huge. I doubt that you are trying to solo mine with your cpu lol, if so, please quit that ;)
sipa commented at 10:08 AM on April 11, 2015: member

If the load from catching up is too high for your system, starting with -par=1 may help.
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