-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello,
Since my node autoupdated to 1208, my system's performance degraded so much as to render it completely unusable while Freenet is running. I can't perform simplest tasks, such as surfing or typing a document, as switching between tabs in Opera can take 10+ seconds and delay between typing a letter and it showing up in Word can be several seconds as well. Anything more stressing (such as running a game or developing an application) is simply not possible. - From what I can see, the reason for this is that Freenet makes hundreds of small disk i/o ops per second, basically blocking the OS from accessing the hard drive for swapping and such. The above is definitely affected by the queue size. First, I tried adding ~ 100 random files from Thaw when the node first updated, but hadn't had the patience to wait for the request to complete (I think I waited at least 20 minutes, perhaps more - with the system being nearly paralyzed by the constant HDD thrashing). With just 3 or 4 files being put in the queue the system starts to stutter noticeably, provided that files start downloading and not hang at 0%. The only time when I can run Freenet as a real background app is when I don't have any files in the queue and FMS isn't running (which seems more or less pointless to me :-(). My system is set up as follows: AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ 4 Gb RAM 2x250 Gb 7200 rpm SATA2 HDD (mirror via mobo's built-in nVidia 570 RAID controller) Windows XP x64 Java 1.6.0_07 64-bit Of course, all the latest updates/patches/drivers, etc. Freenet uses 5 Gb datastore on an unencrypted partition. Interesting thing I noticed was that Freenet significantly underutilized the memory I provide it with. From 320 Mb heap memory available, I hadn't seen it allocate more than ~ 80 Mb. Any thoughts on why this could be happening? I hadn't seen anyone complain about the performance of 1208/09 yet, so it is probably something with my machine :-(, but it beats me what it could be :-(. Regards, Victor Denisov. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJ/05e1O5++4rTuI0RAmPbAJ9AMm6/Jz9j9r9RFNtmuI2V1CV4JgCghLy/ CNBUL964LvIr+khl9fPvqwI= =+5BE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
