Re: [Mldonkey-users] ulimit experiences

[Goswin Brederlow]

Christian Brandt <address@hidden> writes:

> I installed mldonkey on a 486dx4-133/32MB-RAM/8GB-IDE running a scaled-down 
> SuSE8.1. version says "MLDonkey 2.02-0: Objective-Caml Client/Server for 
> the eDonkey2000 Network"
> 
> You guess it, the memoryconsumption brought the system down to its knees 
> within hours. After four weeks I decided to take action and played around 
> with ulimit (see man ulimit or man bash and search for ulimit) and had an 
> impressive success or at least I think so. Swapping has gone done to a 
> minimum and the systems seems stable for weeks now. I am also running 
> mldonkey as a special user, maybe I should also try the static version 
> within chroot?
> 
> My Startscript:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> ulimit -d32768 -l16384
> cd ~/mldonkey
> nice -10 ./mldonkey >>mldonkey.log 2>&1 &
> 
>  Any caveats?

You changed nothing on the memory consumption. You just made it look
to mldonkey that your computer has less ram than it has. The only
effect is that mldonkey will crash (get killed by the kernel) much
earlier because it runs out of memory.

MfG
        Goswin