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authorWladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>2014-11-06 08:52:32 +0100
committerWladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>2014-11-06 08:54:39 +0100
commitf654f0040be5872a7fe21226dc7ed424abf55fb9 (patch)
tree396274cefd82f4d6c0c2d8b83129e84f7e3963a0
parent9bdec7603713d269767dfd86dbd9b8342d0120fe (diff)
Change -genproclimit default to 1
This is less surprising. Avoids the overload-the-CPU default of using N threads for script verification as well as N threads for generation where N is number of cores.
-rw-r--r--src/init.cpp4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/init.cpp b/src/init.cpp
index 158713b321..22ec80e17b 100644
--- a/src/init.cpp
+++ b/src/init.cpp
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ std::string HelpMessage(HelpMessageMode mode)
strUsage += ".\n";
#ifdef ENABLE_WALLET
strUsage += " -gen " + strprintf(_("Generate coins (default: %u)"), 0) + "\n";
- strUsage += " -genproclimit=<n> " + strprintf(_("Set the processor limit for when generation is on (-1 = unlimited, default: %d)"), -1) + "\n";
+ strUsage += " -genproclimit=<n> " + strprintf(_("Set the number of threads for coin generation if enabled (-1 = all cores, default: %d)"), 1) + "\n";
#endif
strUsage += " -help-debug " + _("Show all debugging options (usage: --help -help-debug)") + "\n";
strUsage += " -logips " + strprintf(_("Include IP addresses in debug output (default: %u)"), 0) + "\n";
@@ -1263,7 +1263,7 @@ bool AppInit2(boost::thread_group& threadGroup)
#ifdef ENABLE_WALLET
// Generate coins in the background
if (pwalletMain)
- GenerateBitcoins(GetBoolArg("-gen", false), pwalletMain, GetArg("-genproclimit", -1));
+ GenerateBitcoins(GetBoolArg("-gen", false), pwalletMain, GetArg("-genproclimit", 1));
#endif
// ********************************************************* Step 11: finished