To ensure a stable behavior on a Raspberry Pi it is recommended to set a swapfile with 2048 MB to buffer memory usage peaks. Running out of RAM without having a swapfile in place will crash the wallet Wallet and could corrupt your copy of the Blockchain.
To create a swapfile on your Raspberry Pi you can use the following commands:1)
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Make sure to back-up your wallet first: How-to |
Close the Wallet completely
sudo su -c 'echo "CONF_SWAPSIZE=2048" > /etc/dphys-swapfile'
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sudo dphys-swapfile setup
After creating the swapfile, you have to activate it once by using this command:
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