--- Ian Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tracy R Reed wrote: > > Yes, I agree. However I am concerned that I am not even seeing signs of > > recovery 48 hours later. The network cannot take that long to converge if > > it is converging at all. > > The network will only converge when this becomes the most effective way > for it to deliver data - while the network remains small it is better > for each node to have broader expertise. > > Think of Freenet as a soap-bubble. A soap bubble will always adopt > whatever shape minimizes its surface area. In most cases this is a > sphere. Similarly, a large Freenet will try to adopt whatever > configuration will minimize retrieval times, and we have seen in pre-NGR > that this generally results in pretty obvious specialization. > > Don't get the causal relationship mixed up though. Soap bubbles are > round because this minimizes their surface area, and pre-NGR Freenet > specializes because this minimizes search time (according to its > primitive measurement), but if Freenet is not specializing, or not > specializing in an obvious way, then this doesn't mean its broken, > merely that it has found another optimal way to minimize search times. > This is to be expected since NGR Freenet has to consider network > topology (latency etc) and node performance, where pre-NGR ignored both > of these factors. > > If Freenet isn't specializing it is probably because the network is > small enough that it doesn't need to specialize yet, or, at least that > it doesn't need to specialize in such an obvious manner. As the network > grows it is likely that more obvious specialization will occur. > > Ian. >
You are suggesting that specailization makes no sense in small networks and that freenet does what is optimal. Ian, please think about this. In a tiny network were every node was connected to every other one, specialization still makes sense. Optimally each node would be specialized in a portion of hashspace proportional to its resources. Requests/inserts could work in HTL=1. Sure if you only have 10 nodes everyone will have a broad area about 1/10th of has space, but Tracy would still be able to see something like that in that graph. __________________________________________________________________ Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail - http://mail.yahoo.de Logos und Klingeltöne fürs Handy bei http://sms.yahoo.de _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
