* Ian Clarke <ian at revver.com> [2006-07-09 02:05:43]:

> 
> On 9 Jul 2006, at 01:40, Florent Daigni?re (NextGen$) wrote:
> 
> > * Colin Davis <Colin at sq7.org> [2006-07-08 23:41:24]:
> >
> >> Fair- The profilers I found all seemed to be GUI based- I run my node
> >> on a server without X, that I can only access via SSH.  I know Java
> >> 1.5 has a way do generate a profile text file, though..
> >>  I'll look into it, I suppose.
> >
> > No need to : I can explain the current strategy:
> >
> > We *force* the GC every 18.25 sec in our MemoryChecker thread. So,  
> > yes,
> > it probaly creates CPU spikes ;)
> 
> Indeed, it could be the cause of all our CPU issues.  Can you explain  
> the rationale for this?
> 
> I have heard Java engineers say that the System.gc() command is one  
> of the most abused commands in the Java API - because 99.9% of the  
> time programmers think they should use it, they are wrong.
> 
> Ian.

from :

http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/freenet/src/freenet/node/MemoryChecker.java?rev=8876&view=markup

// FIXME
// Do not remove until all known memory issues fixed,
// Especially #66
// This probably reduces performance, but it makes
// memory usage *more predictable*. This will make
// tracking down the sort of nasty unpredictable OOMs
// we are getting much easier. 

Toad wrote that thread ... see 
https://bugs.freenetproject.org/view.php?id=66

Maybe it was just the NPTL-related bug :/ Maybe we can disable it on
user's nodes and let it enabled on developers' ones ... the problem
beeing that incidents like that hardly ever occur on developer's nodes :'(
and that user's nodes aren't running at loglevel=MINOR.

NextGen$
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