# IPFS daemon is eating up all the resources on my computer, what is happening?

**URL:** <https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/ipfs-daemon-is-eating-up-all-the-resources-on-my-computer-what-is-happening/1241>\
**Category:** Help\
**Tags:** go-ipfs\
**Created:** [October 9, 2017, 9:13pm UTC](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/ipfs-daemon-is-eating-up-all-the-resources-on-my-computer-what-is-happening/1241 "2017-10-09T21:13:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Calmarius](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.ipfs.tech/calmarius/32/322_2.png) [@Calmarius](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/u/Calmarius)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2017, 9:13pm UTC](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/ipfs-daemon-is-eating-up-all-the-resources-on-my-computer-what-is-happening/1241/1 "2017-10-09T21:13:31Z")

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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?

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**Author:** ![lidel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.ipfs.tech/lidel/32/9853_2.png) [@lidel](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/u/lidel)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2017, 10:03pm UTC](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/ipfs-daemon-is-eating-up-all-the-resources-on-my-computer-what-is-happening/1241/2 "2017-10-09T22:03:10Z")

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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 🙂

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**Author:** ![stebalien](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.ipfs.tech/stebalien/32/156_2.png) [@stebalien](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/u/stebalien)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2017, 11:39pm UTC](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/ipfs-daemon-is-eating-up-all-the-resources-on-my-computer-what-is-happening/1241/3 "2017-10-09T23:39:36Z")

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Note: We’ll likely have connection closing/limiting support in the next release so it should get significantly better.

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**Author:** ![chadoh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.ipfs.tech/chadoh/32/2558_2.png) [@chadoh](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/u/chadoh)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 1:23pm UTC](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/ipfs-daemon-is-eating-up-all-the-resources-on-my-computer-what-is-happening/1241/4 "2017-10-11T13:23:24Z")

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> growth from about ~1k to ~6k nodes

What a great problem to have! Any idea what caused this sudden incredible growth?

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**Author:** ![Calmarius](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.ipfs.tech/calmarius/32/322_2.png) [@Calmarius](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/u/Calmarius)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 1:24pm UTC](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/ipfs-daemon-is-eating-up-all-the-resources-on-my-computer-what-is-happening/1241/5 "2017-10-11T13:24:37Z")

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My guess:

> **[How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block](http://la3.org/~kilburn/blog/catalan-government-bypass-ipfs/)**
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> Catalonia, with Barcelona as its capital, is currently one of Spain’s seventeen autonomous comunities. It has a long story of pro-independence movements, and has even declared itself independent in the past. Nowadays, the political climate is very...

And the publicity it created.