Re: [Mldonkey-users] Re: Fatal error: out of memory. (2.02-0)

[Goswin Brederlow]

MLdonkey <address@hidden> writes:

> >  Citing Sven Hartge (Friday, 2002/12/27  2:17)...
> >  
> >  > Well, but it stays at 50MB after this, even after 50 hours of operation.
> >  
> >  Hmm, with 64MB RAM this is unacceptable. 20MB was fine as with the
> >  former releases.
> >  
> >  > One Hour?!
> >  
> >  Maybe two or three.
> >  
> >  > Wow. You may have too many files with too many sources. Try setting the
> >  > *_history_* switches to false, reduce max_sources.
> >  
> >  *_history_* are set to false already, set max_sources_per_file to 500,
> >  we will see if this cures my problem. thanks.
> 
> We clearly need to investigate on this problem this year :)
> 
> Any volonteer to modify donkeyStats.ml to write stats on memory usage
> ? A simple (well, maybe a bit complex in fact) function that would
> tell us where the memory is used. For example, each ocaml file could
> register a memory_stats function, that would print the current memory
> usage of all structures in the module (Hash tables, maps, indexers,
> lists, etc...). The donkeyStats module would then call all these functions
> when asked.

For starters we could count the size of all big structures like server
list, client list, sources, files. That should show the problem.

Is there any code that prevents the new sources list from exploding?

MfG
        Goswin