Performance – Insufficient RAM on Bitcoin Core

While running Bitcoin Core on my system, I’ve been having persistent issues with RAM exhaustion. Here’s a brief overview of the problem:

Problem Description:

I have a Bitcoin Core node set up on my system and I query it every minute using a Python script consulting for new blocks and every tx using API REST. Despite setting the ‘dbcache’ parameter in the bitcoin.conf file to the default value of 450MB, we noticed a gradual increase in RAM consumption over time.

To fix this, you will need to close Bitcoin Core and reopen it occasionally.

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