Re: keypool: checkblocks memory wasting...

Jose M. Arnesto <[email protected]> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:13:47 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.network.freenet.frost.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 01:04:42 +0100, dp
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Hi! I tryed frost and it seems to work. So I entusiastically shared 
>something as 8.5-9GiB of various files (music); without knowing the risk 
>of what I was doing!!! Fortunately, I frequently check the diskspace... 
>having started frost, the free-memory begun to fall, and fall...
>So I stopped frost to check what was going on. I discovered the keypool 
>directory: here I seen hundreds of files, named .checkblocks, that were 
>continuously generated by frost. One every my shared file... and 
>approximately 50& of original dimension.
>This is absurd. To share 10 Gib I should have 5GiB of freespace...!!!
>Couldn't these files be created only when the original file is requested???!

	Take my comment with a grain of salt as I didn't write the
code that we are talking about, but it seems to me that as soon as a
file is successfully inserted, its .redirect and .checkBlocks files
are deleted.

	Kind regards.
-- 
Jose M. Arnesto
jarnesto-xUkTmfEnfrnb9gMhpR3k+RU5MjZjfwQ/[email protected]



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