I’m evaluating IPFS for more than a month now. It worked quite well initially, but nowadays things went crazy.
Whenever I dare to start the daemon it will “spin up” within a hour and consumes 100% CPU, 3-4 GB RAM, and have 2040 peers connected, and the deamon cannot stop spewing error messages about “too many open files”.
It’s started recently, what is happening?
This is due to unexpected growth from about ~1k to ~6k nodes (as of today).
Performance improvements are being actively developed, but these things take time.
We just need to be patient 
Note: We’ll likely have connection closing/limiting support in the next release so it should get significantly better.
growth from about ~1k to ~6k nodes
What a great problem to have! Any idea what caused this sudden incredible growth?
My guess:
And the publicity it created.