[Mldonkey-users] Re: Why does mldonkey eat all of my RAM?

[busterbunny]

> I'm absolutely positive that mldonkey is the culprit because it never
> happened before I started using it and only happens right after launching
> it, every time.

I assume you run other applications than mldonkey. Are some of these 
Java-based ? Do you notice sluggishness when you have no files 
downloading in mldonkey ?
On my Mac, (400MHz, 576MB RAM), mldonkey uses a maximum of 20MB of 
RAM after 16hours of use. Apart from that, even if I don't launch 
mldonkey, MacOS X "uses" (most of it is reported as "inactive" in 
top) almost all of my RAM as soon as I launch the Classic environment 
or a Java application. Only a few megabytes are still free.
In that situation, if I launch mldonkey and download something at 
64KB/s (my top speed), there are a lot of pageins and pageouts 
whenever I switch to another application. But only then.

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