Re: Starting bitcoin client not possible

Hello Kevin,

Kevin Van Workum, Montag, 1. August 2011: 

> I'm seeing a lot of "EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)" messages.
> This usually means you're running out of memory or disk space. Try running
> "top" to see how much memory bitcoin is using. Also, take a look at df to
> see how much disk space you have.

Both should not be a problem:

# top
top - 08:30:26 up  1:16,  6 users,  load average: 0.34, 0.17, 0.10
Tasks: 174 total,   1 running, 173 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  2.8%us,  1.2%sy,  0.0%ni, 71.4%id, 24.4%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.2%si,
0.0%st
Mem:   8158608k total,  4964560k used,  3194048k free,    40468k buffers
Swap:  3903784k total,        0k used,  3903784k free,  4132672k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND                                           
   5799 afeile    20   0  151m  37m  13m D    6  0.5   0:00.89 bitcoin  


# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use%% Mounted on
rootfs                 19G  5,0G   13G  29% /
devtmpfs              3,9G  332K  3,9G   1% /dev
tmpfs                 3,9G  4,0K  3,9G   1% /dev/shm
/dev/md2               19G  5,0G   13G  29% /
/dev/mapper/alpha     500G  227G  274G  46% /home


> Is this running over NFS or on a local disk?

It is running on a local disk in /home, which is an XFS file system.


I don't think that the EAGAIN entries are a problem. If I run "strace
bitcoin" within IceWM, then also tons of EAGAIN entries occur, even
though bitcoin is starting normally.

-- 
Andre Tann


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