On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 10:37:16PM +0000, Jim Dixon wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Feb 2004, Niklas Bergh wrote:
> 
> > > It is noticeable that Freenet uses a ridiculous amount of RAM.  If I run
> > > top on a node that connects to only one other node, and sporadically at
> > > that, I see that it is using 79 MB of memory.  The number doesn't appear
> > > to grow -- there is no evidence of a memory leak -- but it starts out and
> > > remains huge.
> > >
> > > My single inactive node doesn't transmit any messages.  The only thing
> > > that could account for the 79 MB of memory used would seem to be
> > > routing information relating to the 98 nodes it knows about:
> >
> > Please help out. Fire up a memory profiler of your choice at your machine
> > and tell me what it is that occupies all that memory. When I do the same on
> > my machine the node wont use more than 10-15 megs of memory.
> 
> I don't understand.  Are you saying that if you run top it shows only
> 10-15 MB of RAM in use by Freenet?

No, he is saying that the memory profiler he uses slows the node down by
so much that the node doesn't use much RAM.
> 
> Looking at three different systems I see
> 
> Redhat 8.0    Freenet build 5065    90 MB
> Redhat 7.1.2  Freenet build 5068   127 MB
> Linux ??      Freenet build 5065    78 MB
> 
> On the third system dmesg doesn't return anything; it's probably Redhat
> 8.0.
> 
> These are the SIZE figures; RSS is a couple of MB smaller and SHARE runs
> around 8 MB.
> 
> Suggest how I might get better definition and I will run it tomorrow.
> 
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