Re: [Mldonkey-users] Memory consumption

[MLdonkey]

>  Hi there,
>  
>  First off, a big "thank you" goes out to all the mld developers! Great
>  work!
>  
>  I upgraded to mld 2.02-7 from cvs today, and so far it's running
>  smoothly. The only thing that worries me is the enormous amount of
>  memory that the mldonkey process uses - right now it's about 230 MB! I
>  remember some people on this list had a mem usage of about 80 megs...
>  Which is imho a lot but would still be acceptable...
>  
>  There was an older version (think it was 2.00+pangosomething) that used
>  only 17 megs of memory - while the download rates were still quite ok. 
>  
>  My mldonkey runs on a redhat 7.2 box, kernel 2.4.7, ocaml 3.06. I am
>  d/ling 11 files right now, some of them very rare.

The memory usage of mldonkey has always been a problem. We are
currently trying to debug this (the 'mem_stats' command will display
more information). In the meantime, we REALLY need more information on
what you have done to get such a memory usage. Can you reply to these
questions (and other on the list too if they have the same problem):

- Does mldonkey start with this memory usage, or does it increase
  slowly ?
- What do you do with mldonkey ?
 * which plugins do you use
 * which kind of interactions do you have with mldonkey before it goes
     to that amount of memory:
   - which interface do you use (gui, www, mldonkeywatch, telnet..)
       * do you use it a lot ?
       * do you reconnect often with the gui ?
   - how many files are you downloading
   - how many sources do you have ('sources' command)
   - what does 'mem_stats' say (only the last lines)
   - have you tried some searches ? do you have some friends (with
       listed files ?) do you use the results history ?
   - is it increasing even without interaction ?

These informations can lead us to understand where the memory leak is
coming from, before printing more debugging information ?

- MLDonkey