After more experiments with the node it seems like it needs way more memory than I can give it. I stopped all other services running on the machine and give fred the whole 192 MB that were not needed by windows. With this it managed to run 15 hours before running out of memory. So it seems to me that it is not possible to run fred on my machine. The node is now down and will stay down in the next time.
It is not only the memory usage, the node simply needs to much attention. Because everytime it stalls it starts to eat up all CPU cycles and actually blocks/slows down the other services running on the machine. Reducing the priority of the node makes it stall even faster, so this is equal to stopping it. In addition the Traffic due the constant rising ammount of querys and connects did to not only DOS my node, it also started to DOS my whole internet connection and it took several hours till it normalized after shutting down the node. So it is not possible to simple switch of the node if I need the full bandwith of my connection for other things.
I also can't understand why a program thats moving data from one peer to another needs this *big* ammount of memory and cpu cycles. I'm running a well used IRC bouncer, a private Webserver, a MySQL DB and more on the same machine. All of them together only take about 60 MB of memory and 10% to 15% cpu cycles when they are at their configured maximum usage at the same time (neighter memory nor cpu usage got higher than this in the last year). I do expect fred to need more because of routing and crypting but not that much that it needs now.
I know that freenet is still under development and that it is a really hard task to get something like this to a point where it is running really well (especially when using a slow ressource hog like java as base). So I'm keeping an eye on the mailing list, maybe there will be a break through in the near future making it possible to run fred on a machine like mine without it freaking out and beeing a major pain in the ass for my machine (I really hope so).
_______________________________________________ Support mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support
