On Wednesday 13 May 2009 18:29:47 Evan Daniel wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Matthew Toseland
> <toad at 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.
>
How much have you had in your queue so far?
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