On Wednesday 14 May 2003 05:56 pm, Tracy R Reed wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 08:30:13PM +0100, Toad spake thusly:
> > 50M * 1.5 = 75M just for the blocks plus the check blocks. This is a
> > significant chunk out of the default 128MB limit...
>
> It actually keeps all of the chunks in RAM? Why?
If it does (I'm not sure), it's for improved speed - FEC obviously involves an
unholy amount of number crunching, and doing it to data on disk would eat up
a lot of I/O time. Then again, so does swapping. This is one of those things
there should be an option for.
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