On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: > 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? >
About 3GiB, maybe a little less. Evan Daniel
