[freenet-dev] Request for wider testing of the db4o branch

Michael Rogers m.rogers at cs.ucl.ac.uk
Thu Jul 3 07:21:25 UTC 2008


Matthew Toseland wrote:
> - Memory usage decoupled from queue size: The db4o branch "pages in" requests 
> on demand, so in theory can run with a relatively low memory limit, even with 
> a very large queue. In practice this would involve a lot of disk I/O, so it 
> may not work so well in practice, but at least it will degrade gradually, 
> rather than getting OutOfMemoryException's!

With three large downloads running, the db4o branch consistently uses
about 50-70% CPU (I guess this is the paging you mentioned). The main
branch uses 90-100% during startup but only 5% after that.

Cheers,
Michael



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