On Wednesday 25 August 2010 19:58:09 Bill Shutt wrote: > > Hi Matthew > > After several attempts i managed to install Freenet (Kaspersky eventually > came up with a solution - disable their programme during the d/l and > install!). It has had an immediate effect on the performance of my laptop, > slowing it down considerably and causing it to "hang" often. i am hoping this > will eventually resolve itself (i seem to recall similar problems when > running under XP and Vista a year or more back which did improve, although > the computer performance was decidedly slower while Freenet ran).
It shouldn't cause hangs, or noticeable performance cost really. CPU usage in particularly should not cause severe problems on Windows because it runs in the background at a low priority. Which suggests disk I/O or RAM usage may be the issue, although it would be useful if you could find out whether Freenet is using the CPU heavily and how much RAM it is using. Disk I/O has decreased considerably through this year, with the in-RAM cooldown queue and so on. In a fairly recent build we included a datastore fix which should also help. However we're always going to need a certain amount of disk access on a live node to check the datastore ... Do you / did you have files queued to download/upload? Does that make it significantly worse? > > My laptop is HP Pavilion9000 with Intel Core2 Duo CPU 2.2GHZ, 4GB RAM, 300GB > HDD (although i am running Freenet on my dedicated Kingston 4GB USB drive) > under Windows 7 That really should be enough. > > Any advice you can offer to improve performance while Freenet is running as i > would prefer to leave it running all the time. i recall when running it in > the past i had to shut it down when i was d/l or working on large drawing > files (i am an engineer) Okay so sometimes you really do need the RAM, at which times switching Freenet off temporarily is an easy workaround... > > Your kind help is much appreciated, and many thanks for getting me back on > Freenet > > Best regards > > bill > > From: t...@amphibian.dyndns.org > To: support@freenetproject.org > Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:31:29 +0100 > CC: biza...@hotmail.com > Subject: Re: [freenet-support] Windows 7 > > On Saturday 21 August 2010 18:43:17 Bill Shutt wrote: > > > > Have you any idea when Freenet will work with Win7 please? When i try to > > install i get an error and i see on the website you expect a fix shortly > > Please try: > https://checksums.freenetproject.org/latest/FreenetInstaller-alpha.exe > > Let us know if it works. Let us know if it doesn't work. It *is* an alpha, so > it may not be perfect, in particular it does not have a manual update script, > but that is only necessary in emergencies anyway, normally Freenet will > update itself. > > > > many thanks in advance > > Thanks for trying Freenet, and even more thanks if you try the above test > installer! > > > > bill > > _______________________________________________ > Support mailing list > Support@freenetproject.org > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support > Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support > Or mailto:support-requ...@freenetproject.org?subject=unsubscribe >
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