[Mldonkey-users] Re: mldonkey eating up all memory again

[Sven Hartge]

René Gallati <address@hidden> wrote:

>> Then there must be something very special about Debian unstable, as I
>> am able to run my mldonkey on a K6-2/450 with 128MB RAM w/o _any_
>> problems.  It uses about 22MB RAM and some 5% CPU. But: I only have
>> 185 files to download with 41 active, the rest paused, sharing now
>> 46GB of files (this are about 2000 files).  I use exactly the same
>> DEBs of what I have made availible on the web.
 
> As I already wrote on this list and also made a comprehensive bug
> report (Bug 1555 see here
> http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=1555&group_id=1409 )

Ok. My files don't exceed 700 sources and I only connect using ISDN, so
this seem both be the limiting parameters on my side.

> the memory (and CPU and bandwith) eating behaviour on mldonkey ONLY
> appears if you have a high-source file in your download list. A
> high-source file is a file, where several houndreds of peers for that
> file are known.

Do you have a link which gets several hundreds/thousands of sources, so
I can experience the bug myself?

> However it IS a bug in mldonkey, no matter what people are saying who
> can't reproduce it, and unless it is fixed, consider cancelling all
> files in your mldonkey which are high-source and then restart
> mldonkey. At least it wont drive your box into the constantly swapping
> mode.

Since mldonkey v2 does not search for files which are paused, shouldn't
pausing them be enough to stop the problem? Do you really need to purge
them completely from the files.ini, as you suggest in your bug-report?

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