I've decided to dedicate an old PC as a freenet node, and I'd like to get it optimized the best I can, given its resources.
It is a Celeron 400 with 640MB RAM running XP. The problem I see is a lot of disk access. About every second, the drive thrashes. I've read the posts on upping the VM to 192..256..512 or so using -Xmx or by changing the JavaMem line in flaunch.ini, and it doesn't really make any difference. The only reason I am concerned is I'd like to keep wear and tear on that drive to a minimum so it doesn't fail prematurely (the loss of the cache and all that entails.) My connection has a potential of 1800KB/sec in, 230KB/sec out (fiber 15000kbps/2000kbps), however, I've limited the bandwidth to 50KB/sec in and out to try and keep the CPU at about 90% rather than pegged at 100% at all times. Am I simply asking this old machine to do too much? I'd run this on a dual processor OSX box, but I don't have the time to figure out how to compile native encryption libraries. If anyone has a link to precompiled binaries, I would appreciate it! Squirrel
