>> 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...