# Up and Running but Electrum keeps flaking out

**URL:** <https://community.start9.com/t/up-and-running-but-electrum-keeps-flaking-out/5713>\
**Category:** Services Support\
**Created:** [September 6, 2026, 2:01am UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/up-and-running-but-electrum-keeps-flaking-out/5713 "2026-09-06T02:01:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![mikek](https://community.start9.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@mikek](https://community.start9.com/u/mikek)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2026, 2:01am UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/up-and-running-but-electrum-keeps-flaking-out/5713/1 "2026-09-06T02:01:56Z")

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Yes it eventually gets back up and running but why is this happening on a daily basis.

 ![1](https://community.start9.com/uploads/default/original/2X/9/94ef759e99b5225ccf95a453fd33b3fa83850e71.png)

 ![3](https://community.start9.com/uploads/default/original/2X/0/098f81d05f143cd31616555f977421b9353620cb.png)

 ![2](https://community.start9.com/uploads/default/original/2X/3/32e712fddefbbca0b61092776045d666d95b5e33.png)

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**Author:** ![h0mer](https://community.start9.com/user_avatar/community.start9.com/h0mer/32/20_2.png) [@h0mer](https://community.start9.com/u/h0mer)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2026, 12:41pm UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/up-and-running-but-electrum-keeps-flaking-out/5713/2 "2026-09-06T12:41:18Z")

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Hey mikek, thanks for posting the screenshots.

What you’re describing — Electrs going down and then coming back up on its own, roughly once a day — usually points to the hardware getting pushed pretty hard. Indexing the blockchain is heavy on both CPU and disk I/O, so on something like a Pi, an HDD instead of an SSD, or lower RAM, it can time out under load and then restart itself, which would line up with what you’re seeing.

A few things that’d help narrow it down:

What hardware are you on (Pi, Server One/Pure, DIY x86), and is the data drive an SSD or HDD?

Can you check Electrs’ logs (Services \> Electrs \> Logs) around the time it flakes out and see if there’s an out-of-memory message or a specific error right before it restarts?

Is Bitcoin Core fully synced, and is it pruned or a full node?

Once we can see what’s actually in the logs at the moment it drops, we can tell if it’s a hardware ceiling or something else going on.

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**Author:** ![mikek](https://community.start9.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@mikek](https://community.start9.com/u/mikek)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2026, 11:20pm UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/up-and-running-but-electrum-keeps-flaking-out/5713/3 "2026-09-06T23:20:09Z")

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I have a start9 server pure. Not running any other services. Attached is the log pic. Did not see any way to send you the entire download log on this. Chat.

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