> On Wed, 13 May 2009 13:29:47 -0400,
> Evan Daniel <eva...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Matthew Toseland
> <t...@amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote:
> > On Friday 08 May 2009 17:40:58 Juiceman wrote:
> >> >> Weird.  node.db4o was an insane 375 MB.  I deleted it and and
> >> >> added a bunch of downloads.  Now it is less than 10 MB.  That
> >> >> definitely helped some with the disk thrashing.
> >> >>
> >> >> I think I found the main problem, and I'm embarrassed to say
> >> >> apparantly I had xmlspider plugin running and writing GB+ files
> >> >> to the same disk the node resides on.  I turned this off and
> >> >> the disk usage became manageable.
> >> >>
> >> >> I also upgraded my HDD from an older 2 MB cache model to one
> >> >> with 16 MB and now Freenet is zipping along nicely.
> >> >>
> >> >> I did see some errors in the log so I am sending it to Toad for
> >> >> review.
> >> >>
> >> >> P.S. I would recommend not installing the xmlspider by default
> >> >> on
> > installs.
> >> >>
> >> >> Victor - might this be your issue as well?
> >> >
> >> > ROFL. So that just leaves victor...
> >>
> >> Is it normal that node.db4o never shrinks?  I have completed all
> >> the downloads I had running and removed them from the page, yet
> >> node.db4o doesn't get smaller.  I have rebooted the node also.
> >>  This IMHO is bad because it will eventually kill performance with
> >> disk access...
> >
> > Yes, the only way to ensure it shrinks is to defrag it. This is on
> > the todo list, but it does not seem urgent to me. Is it really a
> > huge, monstrous, evil, all-consuming problem more urgent than the
> > 500 other things we have to deal with?
> 
> I see two issues.  First, my node.db4o has broken 100MiB.  That's not
> a problem, but eventually it would be.  I can deal with this by
> emptying my download / upload queues, deleting it, and re-adding any
> keys, but that's annoying.  It's not urgent, but an option to defrag
> at startup would be nice if it doesn't take too much of your time.

Or have the node automatically delete it when the queues are empty?
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