[Bitcoin-development] bitcoind stops responding

[Jeff Garzik]

Can you please describe more than "RPC stops working"?  What is your
precise RPC usage?  getwork?  getblocktemplate?  other calls?  What is
your OS?


On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 10:44 PM, slush <slush at centrum.cz> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> during several weeks I'm observing more and more frequent issues with
> bitcoind. The problem is that bitcoind stops responding to RPC calls, but
> there's no other suspicious activity in bitcoind log, CPU usage is low, disk
> I/O is standard etc.
>
> I observed this problem with version 0.8.2, but it is still happening with
> 0.8.5. Originally this happen just one or twice per day. Today my monitoring
> scripts restarted bitcoind more than 30x, which sounds alarming. This happen
> on various backends, so it isn't a problem of one specific node. Is there
> anybody else who's observing similar problem?
>
> Thanks,
> slush
>
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Jeff Garzik
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