New Transmission add-on thread

Again, i think i have to state that i'm not in total agreement with you.Larger cache on a per torrent, or even per peer basis is beneficial in high speed situations simply since the torrent generates loads of writes with smaller cache. With a lot of competing writes, the darn thing gets nothing done, and your wasting time on waiting for the harddrive subsystem.
I'm not saying i know it's not a global cache size, i don't. I just think it's highly unlikely.

Did you try setting your cache to something small, like 4/8MB and check what it did to your memory usage? While not proving anything, it should give a fair indication by how fast it eats up your RAM.
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