Is the disk the store is on full, or anywhere near full? This is a good point made below. Apart from that, are you sure it's the store that is the problem? The node uses disk for lots of other things.
On Thursday 03 January 2008 00:21, Jack O'Lantern wrote: > Hi bback, > > > --- bbackde at googlemail.com wrote: > > My cache (100gb) is full. Since it reaches 100% the node very often > > works extensively on my hard disk (searches old data to overwrite?). > > Maybe it's your OS accessing fragmented files? > > > This leads to a never stopping 100% access rate to my disk, and I > > fear that the disk will die soon under this load. > > > > Is there anything that can be done to avoid this? Shrinking my store > > would be nice (shrink to 70% and let it grow again), the disk load is > > much smaller when the cache is not full. But shrinking won't work > > (takes days, bug is open). > > > > If nothing helps I have to delete my cache manually (I hope I can > > save my store, how?) > > This may not be optimal but what about deleting a random 30% of your > store? I don't know if this works, though. > > I did some tests with a freenet 0.5 datastore on an ext2 partition. > Despite ext2's fragmentation resistance, files become heavily > fragmented when the filesystem is nearly full (~95%). It's not > thrashing the disk but access times become notably longer. This may in > part be due to the broader range of key sizes in freenet 0.5. > Furthermore, ext2 does not have an adjustable fragment size. At some > time, I might repeat this test with ext4, but right now it simply > appears to be a bad idea to use the full 100% of a partition for your > datastore. > > Jack > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Looking for last minute shopping deals? > Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping > > _______________________________________________ > Support mailing list > Support at freenetproject.org > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support > Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support > Or mailto:support-request at freenetproject.org?subject=unsubscribe > > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/support/attachments/20080103/2d959aa4/attachment.pgp>
