On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 01:39:47AM +0100, David 'Bombe' Roden wrote:
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> ...is something I just found a reason for to strongly advise against. I did 
> the new UI, wanted to test it and chose a big file to insert 
> (FreeBSD-5.0-RELEASE-CD1.iso, if anyone cares :).
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> I started the insert and went to sleep. 4 hours later my browser was still 
> busy sending the file to fred. A look at the environment infolet told me 
> that maybe half of the file's size was in the temp directory so far... I 
> then cancelled the request and chose something smaller. It started rather 
> quickly as my node now had more space available.
> 
> Some hours later I restarted the first insert, watched the temp dir use up 
> all available dataa store space and then almost grinding to halt when 
> hitting that 400 M mark that my node showed as free data store space. Now 
> it's terribly slow again.
> 
> My assumption is that kicking old content out of the data store to make room 
> for new content (or temp content in this case) is slow as hell.
> 
> If this is the case:
> - - can it be helped/fixed?
> - - what about putting the temp dir in the data store dir but have a separate 
> config file option for its size?

It's limited to half currently. It will NOT overwhelm your store. Yes
this should be configgable.
> 
> If this is not the case:
> - - what is happening? Can anyone enlighten me?
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