On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 08:36:04AM +0000, Roger Hayter wrote:
> In message <20021230021553.GA4231@servalan>, Matthew Toseland 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
> >On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 06:03:22PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>I've proven that data store overrun causes insertion tools like FIW to
> >>fail.  The symptom is that the program stops midway through its
> >>insertion sequence and sits idle.
> >>
> >>I figured this out from looking at my datastore usage.  It should be
> >>1Gig max, but when FIW failed it was at 1.3G.  I increased the store
> >>size to 2Gb, and now its running smoothly.
> >>
> >>I thought the datastore code was supposed to be intelligent and delete
> >>the oldes material, making room for the new?  Evidently, its not
> >>working.
> >It does work. There is a problem with tempfiles for fproxy or for the
> >distservlet growing without limit. You will find that most of the extra
> >space comes from the store/temp/ directory.
> 
> This is NOT what is happening to my node with recent 'unstable' 
> snapshots!  Using one of the last two or three days' snapshots, my 
> store, limited to 256MB, grew to about 350MB.  You tend to notice these 
> things using a 504MB disk!  Deleting .../store_****/temp gained about 
> 30MB and there was not even 10MB in the other places you mention. Many 
> of the individual data store folders were 1 to 3MB (obviously have to 
> average 1MB to keep under limit).  Going back to one of the earlier 
> versions of build 629 (restarting the existing one didn't help), the log 
> file during start up shows dozens of:
Exactly what version are you seeing this behaviour with? Does it go away
with more recent builds (637) ?
> 
> "<date>(freenet.node.rt.DataObjectRoutingStore,main): Removing orphaned 
> property"
> 
> and the data store went back down to about 256MB plus a few temp files.
> 
> There is clearly something wrong in recent snapshots with the mechanism 
> for keeping data store size to the limit.  It was (as others have noted) 
> only limited by partition size.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >>
> >>Rob.
> >
> 
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> Roger Hayter
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