Ouch. I'm kind of confused at your anger. Do you feel you are not getting your money's worth?
j. Quoting Tim McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 01:52, Tracy R Reed wrote: > > The developers need to decide whether freenet is ready for general use or > > not. They have led a lot of people to have some expectation of usefulness > > despite the fact that it is clearly alpha software yet they have a release > > called "stable". I suspect part of the problem is major bugs in > > implementation compounded by lack of testing and scientific method in > > diagnosing bugs (ie. running NGR and older stuff). But others disagree. :) > <RANT> > > I personally agree with your description of the problem, although there > isn't a darned thing I can do about it. Fred has become essentially > unusable here - the only things I'm able to fetch are things that were > stored local to my node MONTHS AGO. This is pathetic. I have a broadband > connection with a 36GB store allocated to freenet, only ~2GB is actually > being used however. What I find completely astonishing about this though > is that with my outbound limited to 10KB/S I'm almost getting as many > hits locally as servers 'globally' - That just sounds *wrong* to me, or > freenet really is so badly off now that my node is doing better than it > should be. > > I am using build 6220. Fproxy bookmarks page has NO LINKS other than > ones local in the store working. Zero dbr links! > > Just for the record, this is the jvm from my environment page. I was > told by people to use this version as the newest jvm has serious bugs. > If this has changed, and explains my PERVERSE problems, please tell me. > > JVM Vendor > Sun Microsystems Inc. > JVM Name > Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM > JVM Version > 1.4.1_04-b01 > > Frost, which was working a couple of days ago on an earlier version of > freenet isn't even able to function AT ALL now. It's finding NO posts, > at all. It's unable to INSERT my posts, either. I did not upgrade frost, > only freenet. So, it's freenet not working. > > >From network load: > Global mean traffic (queries per hour):12522.75 > Local mean traffic (queries per hour): 10290.3510404307667 > > See what I mean?! What's UP with this?! My node is limited to 10KB/S > outbound bandwidth - is the network seriously this starved for > information that mine is actually providing the majority of bandwidth in > my area?! > > Things have been getting progressively worse as time has gone on. I > mean, seriously - things are WORSE for me now than when I initially > JOINED with 0.5.0. Anyone else remember the amusing (if you weren't > trying to deal with it) screwups? > > Seriously, if I was a developer I'd neuter the current development tree > and go back to a known working version, even if it was slower, even if > it had problems - because right now things are GENEROUSLY fucked, and > NOTHING is working right. And before you go off telling me to use > stable, I tried using stable. The reason why I WENT to unstable is that > stable is just about as usable as unstable right now, and has been for > months. WHY is it things are allowed to PERSIST like this? If you know > something in the development tree is having problems, why on EARTH do > you stuff it into the stable tree as you obviously have? Stable trees > should be old things that don't get touched often - because you want > them to NOT be used for experimentation. Development trees are for that. > Please, for the LOVE OF GOD, stop putting partially tested things into > the stable tree. > > I'm going to give freenet one more month to improve. If I don't see > improvement AT LEAST to the level that *some* dbr pages start showing up > in my fproxy bookmarks again, preferably to the level that 0.5.0 > 'functioned' - I'm giving up, deleting my store and I'll find some other > anonymizing system. THAT ACTUALLY WORKS. > > Yeah, I'm angry. If you want to ban me from the email list, do so. I > don't care. I'm tired of this - people just point fingers everywhere > when I ask what the reasons are for the problems persisting. (not > EXISTING, PERSISTING. They aren't being fixed.) > </RANT> > > Thank you, > Good NIGHT. > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
