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Latest geth has severe memory leak! Over 7.8GB memory and still climbing! #3134

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molitar opened this issue Oct 14, 2016 · 2 comments
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Latest geth has severe memory leak! Over 7.8GB memory and still climbing! #3134

molitar opened this issue Oct 14, 2016 · 2 comments

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molitar commented Oct 14, 2016

System information

Geth version: 1.4.17
OS & Version: Windows 7 64 bit

Expected behaviour

way way less memory usage.

Actual behaviour

7.846GB of memory usage. climbing by the minute.

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

run ether wallet and monitor geth.exe while it's syncing!

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fjl commented Oct 14, 2016

This is the result of an ongoing DoS attack. We are working on implementation improvements and
a hard fork has been proposed to mitigate it at the protocol level. See https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/10/13/announcement-imminent-hard-fork-eip150-gas-cost-changes/ for more information.

I'm closing this because #3129 also tracks the memory issue.

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fjl commented Oct 15, 2016

Geth 1.4.18 has been released and fixes the memory usage issue.

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