Umm, you can raise the descriptor limit as a regular user on OS/X?! Please check what value it was before and after...
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 04:38:48PM +0000, Squished Squirrel wrote: > Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Can we get this Mac OS X native jbigi library incorporated in to > > future Freenet releases? > > > > I've been running Freenet on Mac OS X for about two years now. It > > usually runs for 2 to 7 days before it grinds to a halt with either > > an out of memory error or some kind of error in the "abstractor loop". > > > > Having better performance while Freenet is up would be great. Fixing > > the above errors would also be nice. > > > > Thanks, > > Paul > > > > I'm about to test it over the weekend and see what happens. > I know Java 1.4.2 (at least the latest version installed > with 10.3.9) will crater with Kernel Panics. It sounds a lot > like the problems that Azureus suffered from on Dual Processor > Macs. When too many connections were opened simultaniously, > Azureus would kernel panic. Apparently they found a work- > around though. > > For my test this weekend, I'm gonna go for broke and use the > latest JVM available for Tiger (1.5.0_04-39) and see how it > goes. (If anyone else installs it, keep in mind your computer > will continue to use the 1.4.X version unless you change a > specific directory link, or use a hard coded path to the java > 1.5 binary.) > > I did see some things in the start-freenet.sh script that > might need to be changed to improve performance/clarity. > > First, it doesn't set the java argument -xx:MaxDirectMemorySize > if you are running on OSX with JVM 1.4.2 or later. That is a > legit flag for the OSX Sun JVM, so I don't know why it skips that > argument only on OSX (Darwin). I'm just commenting out the > "if" and "fi" statements above and below the line that sets > that argument. > > Second, when launched on a machine running a JVM later than > 1.4.2, it still says you are using 1.4.2. It should say: > "Sun Java 1.4.2 or later detected." > > Finally, as the readme suggests, I'm adding these lines to the > start script just before the "Starting freenet now" line: > > if test `uname` == "Darwin"; then > ulimit -S -n 1024 > fi > > That ups the file descriptor limit to the same as the default > on other platforms. After that, you need to up the > "maxNodeConnections" parameter to 512 in the config file. > > I'm also upping the memory limit to -Xmx256m just because the > machine has a decent amount of ram. > > With these changes, OSX should be running with the same > parameters as linux or windows. > > _______________________________________________ > Support mailing list > Support@freenetproject.org > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support > Unsubscribe at http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support > Or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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