On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Roderik Muit wrote:

> Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 11:38:46 +0200 From: Roderik Muit
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:
> [freenet-support] Computer coming to a halt - which config options
> to use?

> So freenet is running happily for a few days, but the load is
> frequently above 20 and my server gets unusable. I want to keep
> doing other stuff on it too. I'm trying to find a solution to get it
> in a workable state again (or I'll shut down my node).

Run freenet as 'nice 19 java -cp /path/to/freenet.jar...'

> But I didn't find enough info about tuning my freenet that I
> _really_ know what I'm doing. I need to ask someone.


> Having looked at some documentation, I saw 2 options in the config
> file I could use: maximumThreads and maxNodeConnections. Right or
> wrong?

> Setting maxNodeConnetions is preferred, putting a hard limit on the
> number of threads is ugly (or uglier). Right or wrong?

> Well, I decreased maxNodeConnections from 30 to 8, to see what it
> would do, expecting the number of threads to go down too... But what
> happens?  The NodeInformationServlet gives me:- the number of 'Open
> Connections' is between 16 and 32, usually somewhere at 24. Why? I
> was expecting this to be 8. Does maxNodeConnections not have
> anything to do with the number of open connections?- in the 'Load
> Stats': usually 8 entries. (At the moment it's 9.) Are those the 8
> connections, then?- The Thread factory tells me that at this moment
> there are 45 active threads and 18 available ones. Uhm... this is
> kind of much, I think... And I was kind of hoping to get that down
> with the maxNodeConnections setting, but that does not seem to be
> the case...

> Should I just set maximumThreads to 30 or something?  Or is there
> another better option, to keep my node from going wild?



> Misc info: my node, with datastore of about 2GB, runs on a Sun Netra
> X1 (128MB RAM) under Linux (Debian Woody). It runs with Blackdown
> JVM 1.3.1 (which seems the only usable choice for linux/sparc. I
> tried the Kaffe .deb -1.0.6-7+.cvs20020411- but Kaffe often just
> quits without notice). I'm running build 494 (which is what is
> packaged for Debian unstable; I'm lazy when I can get away with it).


> --Roderik.



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