(1.0.4): chia_wallet takes constantly >80% cpu (>80% of one core) when farming; is it normal?

[ardabro]

This is my typical cpu usage during farming. Is it normal that chia_wallet consumes so much all the time?

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
12503 arek 20 0 496648 117544 20676 R 84.9 3.1 41:38.57 chia_wallet
12502 arek 20 0 1013688 542452 20432 S 17.0 14.2 105:50.60 chia_full_node
1263 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.7 0.0 3:22.05 btrfs-transacti
12288 arek 20 0 215856 58784 16512 S 0.6 1.5 0:29.08 chia_daemon
12500 arek 20 0 302976 56096 17920 S 0.4 1.5 0:27.85 chia_harvester

[dorkmo]

you could do chia stop wallet really its not neccessary to have on

[ardabro]

But it starts when I invoke chia start farmer. If I don't need it for farming what exactly does it do?

[hoffmang9]

Wallet only lets you see and spend coins locally.

[ardabro]

Oh man! When I stopped wallet it stopped full node as well and stopped farming!

(venv) #screen#>chia stop wallet
chia_wallet: Stopped
chia_full_node: Stopped
(venv) #screen#>../farm_status 
================================================================================ Wed 14 Apr 21:01:28 CEST 2021
Connection error. Check if wallet is running at 9256
Connection error. Check if full node is running at 8555
Farming status: Not available
Total chia farmed: Unknown
User transaction fees: Unknown

[dorkmo]

my bad! should have been chia stop wallet-only i believe

[dorkmo]

you can type in chia stop --help and itll show you the options

[fullet-tortuga]

The thing is, is it actually doing anything that justifies that cpu usage?