IPFS Daemon slows regular browsing to a crawl

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#21

I have not explicitly found the issue in terms of a sure fire way to reproduce it and then solve it.

However, I have apparently been running the IPFS daemon on my local machine for over a week and I haven’t noticed.

One thing that I can think of that has changed is that I’m now using systemctl to manage the daemon instead of running it in a background tmux session.

I did write up notes on how to install the deamon as a service:

    # https://gist.github.com/pstehlik/9efffa800bd1ddec26f48d37ce67a59f
    # https://www.maxlaumeister.com/u/run-ipfs-on-boot-ubuntu-debian/
    # https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-create-systemd-service-unit-in-linux#:~:text=There%20are%20basically%20two%20places,%2Fetc%2Fsystemd%2Fsystem%20.
    SERVICE_DPATH=/etc/systemd/system
    SERVICE_FPATH=$SERVICE_DPATH/ipfs.service
    IPFS_EXE=$(which ipfs)

    # TODO: This will depend on how you initialized IPFS
    #IPFS_PATH=/data/ipfs
    #IPFS_PATH=$HOME/.ipfs

    echo "IPFS_EXE = $IPFS_EXE"
    echo "SERVICE_FPATH = $SERVICE_FPATH"
    echo "IPFS_PATH = $IPFS_PATH"

    sudo_writeto $SERVICE_FPATH "
        [Unit]
        Description=IPFS daemon
        After=network.target
        [Service]
        Environment=\"IPFS_PATH=$IPFS_PATH\"
        User=$USER
        ExecStart=${IPFS_EXE} daemon
        [Install]
        WantedBy=multiuser.target
        "
    #sudo systemctl daemon-reload
    sudo systemctl start ipfs
    sudo systemctl status ipfs

as part of my setup ipfs script: local/setup_ipfs.sh at main · Erotemic/local · GitHub

#22

At first glance, that make absolutely no sense as a fix. (however I’ve been wrong many time saying that)
And we have cases where the deamon do the same thing using systemd so … (it’s not that)

AFAIK it’s a bitswap issue and we will be working on that for go-ipfs0.15~0.18 (hopefully, soonTM).

#23

Well this is so cool! Running as a service is much stable I think. Will try it later. Thanks for sharing.