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From: =?utf-8?Q?Pavel_Jan=C3=ADk?= <Pavel@Janik.cz>
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Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 09:22:41 +0200
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To: "Jonathan Toomim (Toomim Bros)" <j@toom.im>
Cc: Bitcoin development mailing list <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Memory leaks?
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> I just noticed that several of my running bitcoind processes were =
using around 3+ GB of RAM, even though the mempool itself seemed to be =
under control.
>=20
> XXXX@prime:~/bin$ ./bitcoin-cli getmempoolinfo
> {
>     "size" : 1896,
>     "bytes" : 37341328
> }
>=20
> [total memory usage not shown -- I restarted bitcoind as soon as I =
noticed, and didn't copy it down from top]

The newer versions contain much more accurate reporting of memorypool =
usage that reflect the real memory usage:

{
  "size": 58536,
  "bytes": 770044257,
  "usage": 1652554832
}

See PR #6410 (Implement accurate memory accounting for mempool).
-- =20
Pavel Jan=C3=ADk