Possibly, but the effect has to be pretty weak. Otherwise one risks having requests get stuck in a local zone (6 nodes on a LAN that ping 12 millis to one another, but 100 to the rest of the net for example).
On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Ian Clarke wrote: > If we somehow took pingtime into account in the datastore, creating a > slight pressure towards sending requests to closer nodes. At the moment > requests will only be sent towards closer nodes in terms of information > space, but perhaps a preference for sending requests for the closest > node in terms of IP would be useful for increasing efficiency (at > present Freenet treats all nodes equally regardless of proximity so > spatial proximity will only play a part indirectly - ie. because people > close together might request similar things). > > Just throwing an idea into the maelstrom... It would be easy to > implement and would increase efficiency. > > Ian. > > _______________________________________________ > Freenet-dev mailing list > Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net > http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev -- Oskar Sandberg md98-osa at nada.kth.se #!/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/) _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
