[freenet-dev] BDB uses far more memory than it's supposed to; ideas?

[Matthew Toseland]

On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 12:05:20AM +0100, Jano wrote:
> Matthew Toseland wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 08:46:14PM +0100, Jano wrote:
> >> Bob Ham wrote:
> >> 
> >> > I think there are deeper issues to deal with.  Even disregarding the
> >> > database, fred's memory footprint is massive.  For the functionality
> >> > that it provides, it seems to me to be excessive.  I can't understand
> >> > why fred would need anything in excess of a few 10s of megabytes. 
> >> > Where is this memory going?
> >> 
> >> I agree here. BDB seems a mature database; switching databases without
> >> really isolating the culprit seems premature.
> > 
> > Bob's "deeper issues" are illusory; local configuration problems.
> > 
> > BDB uses 54MB when I have told it to use 20MB. That is the issue here.
> > BDB is responsible for the majority of Fred's memory usage as of now as
> > far as I can see.
> 
> But why? Can we be sure that the fault is not in some kind of misuse of BDB
> instead of being intrinsic to BDB?

How to identify such misuse?
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