I was running ipfs daemon on a university server for research until the process was shut down by its administrator due to excess consumption of CPU and RAM. To run again, I’ll need to give an estimate of CPU and RAM usage. How much CPU and RAM does ipfs daemon typically consume in a set amount of…

IPFS System Requirements?

lidel November 21, 2017, 10:37am 2

Hm, are you running version older than v0.4.12? Try upgrading to v0.4.13.

Older versions were missing connection closing logic, which is known to cause problems you described:

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