Re: [freenet-support] too much mem

[Nikita Proskourine]

I use many different OSes (including Linux) in different circumstances. 
I simply run Windows at home because it runs Windows apps that I use 
(Wine is still unreliable and slow). I am a strong believer in Linux and 
its security and reliability, but it simply does not support some of my 
hardware (my usb camera, my usb printer), and that makes it unacceptable 
to me. I've tried very hard to get a Unix system working on my machine 
(used Slackware, Debian, RedHat, Mandrake, Suse, FreeBSD), but none of 
them had decent hardware support for me. By the way, these distros used 
more disk space than my WinXP (my drive is only 13GB)! I also had lots 
of problems with graphics (had to even replace my graphics card, because 
I really *wanted* Linux to work). That's because to get stuff working 
right I sometimes needed to download source packages and build them, 
which can take enormous amount of space. Right now I cannot afford a new 
machine.

From my experience in Java I know it sometimes performs much better on 
Linux than it does on Windows. I used to dual boot Windows and Linux, 
and there was a certain java application server package, from HP, I 
believe, which took several minutes just to start up on Windows and in 
general was awefully slow. It took it only several seconds to start on 
Linux on the same machine, and it worked great there. I cannot run 
Freenet at work because of the firewall and company policy regarding 
bandwidth, or I would be definitely running it on a Linux box (we don't 
have MacOS X boxes). Oh, btw, I tried running FreeNet on FreeBSD (hehe) 
and it worked very badly. There is no native binary package for Java 1.4 
environment for FreeBSD, and one can only use a Linux 1.4 runtime (and 
hope it works, and it doesn't work right, kept running out of memory and 
bringing the whole freenet down) or build it over multiple stages using 
source packaged and some Linux tools if you agree to various licenses 
from Sun (the build takes several *days* on my machine). The latter 
worked ok until I enabled the firewall in the kernel, at which point it 
completely fell apart (could not locate my network interface, etc.)

Nikita.

Michael wrote:

Thanks Nikita, I guess if Winderz suits you thats fine.  Hope you graduate to Linux 
some day... the weather is fine here.
P.S.  I had my Java topped at 200mb.  I'll test 64 and see how she
flies.
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