Received: from sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.193] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-4.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1VQoac-0003c3-D8 for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 01 Oct 2013 01:17:26 +0000 Received-SPF: pass (sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com: domain of bitpay.com designates 74.125.82.49 as permitted sender) client-ip=74.125.82.49; envelope-from=jgarzik@bitpay.com; helo=mail-wg0-f49.google.com; Received: from mail-wg0-f49.google.com ([74.125.82.49]) by sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) id 1VQoaa-0004J5-Er for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 01 Oct 2013 01:17:26 +0000 Received: by mail-wg0-f49.google.com with SMTP id l18so6723708wgh.16 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 18:17:18 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=DXWU9to0ZLxelWIen1P2IUezHFPR+7MKA2cYt8tel5Y=; b=j/+OHwHgRhGwITH1OfJtufTGXguvLv24dF66HvUFKEJfdkXgMn1N9gVh8Lkf1dugEF q+7zmAgOq2jWeMgyuqk2xtBwvGxjd+WRbNjrRXKMyh0ML26nj89cfWXrc1k9ay2hW0qQ b3wAZSoxRWzToUKbd0VKyENp2RktHyW9QU1BZuFqHZX8khzs/rVXU5Tovj95ORiP8itN Hhr/FVGQSA21tPi0WfmoFHzo68qQNTDwRB/GrVzAnt7IFEcV/CnBZXd/L+T3Ex/TGMw9 VJBUzBObI26VM/pBBnZmVsBHU7rHfv/5ccTNgtsFRd4LFmksCNggphqZ8KFTitsPPPk2 zEEg== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQk3LsZlL5OtNfLNUzkHQWnkSYNv9zM/U5utLOX8lCxKRPsupWCrm+U9pr7vOfRxD3EOKfeM MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.194.80.39 with SMTP id o7mr4967689wjx.39.1380590237997; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 18:17:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.194.236.69 with HTTP; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 18:17:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 03:17:17 +0200 Message-ID: From: Jeff Garzik To: slush Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Spam-Score: -1.6 (-) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. 0.0 URIBL_BLOCKED ADMINISTRATOR NOTICE: The query to URIBL was blocked. See http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/DnsBlocklists#dnsbl-block for more information. [URIs: doubleclick.net] -1.5 SPF_CHECK_PASS SPF reports sender host as permitted sender for sender-domain -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record -0.1 DKIM_VALID_AU Message has a valid DKIM or DK signature from author's domain 0.1 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily valid -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature X-Headers-End: 1VQoaa-0004J5-Er Cc: "bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net" Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] bitcoind stops responding X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 01:17:26 -0000 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 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > October Webinars: Code for Performance > Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. > Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most > from > the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60134791&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development > -- Jeff Garzik Senior Software Engineer and open source evangelist BitPay, Inc. https://bitpay.com/