On Friday 09 May 2008 07:27, Victor Denisov wrote: > | Automatic bandwidth calibration. Other p2p apps have this, we should > have it. > > Good idea. Also, we should definitely look into better utilizing > available bandwidth. Freenet's the only p2p app which consistently > underutilizes my upload limit (~ 2 Mbit/s out of 8 Mbit/s of link > capacity). I understand that we don't want to create supernodes, but > come on, 2 Mbit/s is *nothing* these days.
IMHO automatic bandwidth calibration will help a lot with this. Beyond that we're looking at token passing, which may be too big for 0.7.1. > > | Client layer changes: I propose to move the entire client layer onto > disk. We > > I say this deserves to be moved to High or Very High priority. The main > problem is not memory usage as is (most people have 1 Gb+ of RAM now), > but rather inability of Java to properly grow and shrink its memory > usage on the "as needed" basis. Not a single native Windows application > behaves this way, and I doubt many users are prepared to understand and > adjust memory limits manually. Heck, even I, being a Java developer, > spent several days trying to understand what heap limit to set for > Freenet so that it won't run out of memory (and that it uses ~ 2x memory > on 64-bit JVM doesn't help any). Also, perhaps we can detect OOM errors > and offer the user to increase the memory limit next time he tries to > run Freenet? Agreed, memory usage is a usability issue: the user shouldn't have to care about it. > > | Auto-update for plugins: We should have had this ages ago. Several > people have > > Shouldn't we consider auto-updating bundled applications as well? Or > perhaps providing an auto-update API for use by third-party apps? Just a > thought. Maybe, that would be harder though. I would be happy to discuss it with their authors. > > Hope the above was helpful, > > Regards, > Victor Denisov.
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