Re: [Mldonkey-users] Memory usage

[Goswin Brederlow]

Alexander Gretencord <address@hidden> writes:

> Got a small problem, the router I run mldonkey on has not too much ram and 
> mldonkey takes up quite a bunch of it. Currently it's downloading with 6 
> connections and has 34 files in the list in total so nothing too special but 
> it already uses about 100Mb of RAM. Sometimes it's less, then it goes up 
> again. The comp got only 128Mb of RAM in total and is used for other things 
> too which suffer from this. Of course I could just limit mldonkey's ram usage 
> with ulimit but I don't know how well this works, what does mldonkey do when 
> it can't get more ram, I haven't tested this.

probably stop or segfault.

> Is there an option or a combination of options that can limit mldonkey's ram 
> usage ? There are some options that look like mem settings (buffers) and I've 
> set some of them to lower values but this didn't help.

The maximum number of sources per file defaults to 1000. That can add
up to some ram.

MfG
        Goswin