On Mon, 16 Jun 2014 23:23:40 -0400 Scott Howard <showard...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry to hear about bitcoin crashing. If you download the client from > bitcoin.org, does it also do that? To be safe, backup/move your > ~/.bitcoin directory before playing around just to be extra safe. > ~Scott Just tried the upstream tarball as you requested, and it behaves exactly the same. My most vulnerable laptop (the Thinkpad) overheats and shuts down within a couple of minutes. If anyone else is running into this, I have found a way to mitigate this behavior: start the client in a terminal with the -par=1 parameter, ie. bitcoin-qt -par=1 & Apparently par=1 limits the bitcoin client to just one thread, so it can only max out the CPU on one core. This renders my Toshiba quite reliable, and my Thinkpad often manages to not shutdown. Clayton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org