Roger Oksanen wrote:
I run freenet niced at +10 on a 2x500MHz computer, load stays at 2-3 all the time.
Ah yes, I forgot to mention that. It's niced at 19. Beats me how something that's niced 19 can bring the load to 5.00, but that's a different issue.
I suspect the problem you have lies in the fact that freenet will eat ALL available bandwidth that you give it, which will lead to starvation, so adjust the following settings:
inputBandwidthLimit= <Your input limit>
outputBandwidthLimit= <Your output limit>
That's done already, it's not where the problem lies. Both these settings are at 10240, calculated for a monthly consumption of about 50 GB. The machine has a 100 Mbit connection to the net, so starvation is out of the question.
You could also limit the threads used by adjusting the maximumThreads setting.
Reducing maximumThreads from default 120 to 60 had very little positive impact on the load. However, while I was there I noticed the overLoadlow parametre, which I had missed earlier. I set it to 0.8 but it dosn't work as advertised. After 35 minutes with this setting in effect, I'm looking at 9:57, 1 user, load average: 1.13, 1.74, 1.04 9:58, 1 user, load average: 1.53, 1.71, 1.07 10:00, 1 user, load average: 1.84, 1.77, 1.17 10:01, 1 user, load average: 3.04, 2.05, 1.31 10:05, 1 user, load average: 2.37, 2.39, 1.61 10:17, 1 user, load average: 5.49, 4.00, 2.69 10:26, 1 user, load average: 4.27, 4.20, 3.39 ./stop-freenet.sh 10:30, 1 user, load average: 0.15, 1.99, 2.66
If all averages are constantly above the overLoadlow limit and the one-minute average keeps increasing, then this setting is simply not being obeyed.
Duh. I don't remember running a more aggressive piece of software, ever.
A note to the developers:
RAM is cheap. Working software is very expensive. Freedom is horrendously expensive.
Sadly, this is an over-simplification and reality is more complex than that. The people who have money can buy freedom and don't need more RAM. The people who mostly need more RAM in order to have freedom are mainly those who can't afford the RAM. This is true on a national level, comparing the degree of repression and the financial situation of the average citizen in, say, China or Egypt to those in the US or Europe, and it is also true on the personal level; he who can pay a good team of lawyers will seldom need to fiddle with freenet.
In my case, I rent a server somewhere for 39 euro per month. It's crappy hardware, but it's fully sufficient for all my needs and it's all I can afford anyway. To get better hardware where I have the bandwidth I'd have to double my expense. At home, where I have better hardware, I pay the traffic at the tune of 3 euro/GB. The sum of this equation is, unfortunately, one freenet node less. I do think that resource management would be a worthy priority for the project.
Z
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