On Monday 04 May 2009 21:21:50 Victor Denisov wrote: > Hello, > > Since my node autoupdated to 1208, my system's performance degraded so > much as to render it completely unusable while Freenet is running. I > can't perform simplest tasks, such as surfing or typing a document, as > switching between tabs in Opera can take 10+ seconds and delay between > typing a letter and it showing up in Word can be several seconds as > well. Anything more stressing (such as running a game or developing an > application) is simply not possible. > > From what I can see, the reason for this is that Freenet makes hundreds > of small disk i/o ops per second, basically blocking the OS from > accessing the hard drive for swapping and such. > > The above is definitely affected by the queue size. First, I tried > adding ~ 100 random files from Thaw when the node first updated, but > hadn't had the patience to wait for the request to complete (I think I > waited at least 20 minutes, perhaps more - with the system being nearly > paralyzed by the constant HDD thrashing). With just 3 or 4 files being > put in the queue the system starts to stutter noticeably, provided that > files start downloading and not hang at 0%. The only time when I can run > Freenet as a real background app is when I don't have any files in the > queue and FMS isn't running (which seems more or less pointless to me :-(). > > My system is set up as follows: > > AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ > 4 Gb RAM > 2x250 Gb 7200 rpm SATA2 HDD (mirror via mobo's built-in nVidia 570 RAID > controller) > Windows XP x64 > Java 1.6.0_07 64-bit > Of course, all the latest updates/patches/drivers, etc. > Freenet uses 5 Gb datastore on an unencrypted partition. > > Interesting thing I noticed was that Freenet significantly underutilized > the memory I provide it with. From 320 Mb heap memory available, I > hadn't seen it allocate more than ~ 80 Mb. > > Any thoughts on why this could be happening? I hadn't seen anyone > complain about the performance of 1208/09 yet, so it is probably > something with my machine :-(, but it beats me what it could be :-(.
Do you (anyone, everyone, especially on windows with low end hardware) get good performance with queued downloads on 1214 now? Can I close the bug concerning this thread? (#3075) > > Regards, > Victor Denisov.
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