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bitcoind is extremely slow to start (~5-20 minutes). I'm not talking about keeping up with the blockchain, that would be perfectly fine, I'm talking about an initial phase where it doesn't even respond to requests: any call to it returns "error: couldn't connect to server" (either from command line or from web).
Is it a known issue, is there a workaround?
OSX 10.6.8, bitcoind 0.7.0 (but happened with earlier versions too).
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You very probably have a massive wallet.dat file.
This happens with Instawallet's bitcoind, it takes an hour to start up, it spends this time loading the wallet.
If you want to make sure :
$ tail -f ~/Library/Application\ Support/Bitcoin/debug.logYou should see some output when the client starts, if the problem is actually with loading the wallet the output should stop for a while on 'Loading wallet'.
mmh, seems to be stuck here Bound to [::]:8333
Bound to 0.0.0.0:8333
Loading block index...
dbenv.open LogDir=/Users/looris/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/database ErrorFile=/Users/looris/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/db.log – o0'. – 2013-01-31T08:15:50.177
1Looks like it's loading the block DB – David – 2013-01-31T09:34:54.000
And what should I do about that in that case? – o0'. – 2013-02-01T16:17:40.970
1I'd say try to remove your DB entirely and redownload the chain see if that solves the issue, the folks on #bitcoin-dev might have some better insight here. – David – 2013-02-01T17:22:52.827
Calling for a close vote: no longer useful. – o0'. – 2013-03-07T11:03:17.853
How slow are we talking? 30 seconds? 30 minutes? – Nick ODell – 2013-01-31T01:14:44.273
@NickODell any time between 5 and 20 minutes, more or less. – o0'. – 2013-01-31T08:10:31.357
I have the same issue. Do you have FileVault trend on by chance? – Andrew Burns – 2013-02-01T02:43:35.230
@AndrewBurns nope :/ – o0'. – 2013-02-01T16:17:11.220