On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 06:38:13PM +0200, van2 at vipmail.hu wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm worried about freenet wearing out my drive prematurely from the constant
> disk access. I have a couple questions related to this:

If constant access wears out your drive then your drive is defective,
take it back to the shop. :)
> 
> 1. Is there any support for disk caching that might be able to reduce
> disk accesses?

No.

> 2. Would increasing the memory available to the JVM make freenet read 
> the disk less?

Increasing the total memory in the computer, so that more is cached by
the OS, and reducing the datastore size, would make Freenet read the disk
less.

> 3. Also, I saw on IRC that someone was thinking of rewriting the code to 
> make the seedrefs file (?) reside
> in memory instead of being constantly accessed from the disk, has this 
> actually been done, or do you think it's feasible?

Doesn't mean anything to me. The routing table is in RAM, it's pretty
much always been in RAM.
> 
> Thanks guys, and congratulations on freenet, I think this is how the 
> internet Should be.
-- 
Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org
Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/
ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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