On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 02:42:27PM -0400, Tom Ritchford wrote: > At 12:19 PM -0500 4/18/00, awlydick wrote: > >#5 A quick note. Search results should be cached like any other > >Freenet data. > > Consider the pathological case where there is only one copy of a document > (perhaps it's very large? or a live updated document?) but everyone is > searching for it. > > Without caching, this would generate traffic proportional to the square > of the number of nodes involved - the system grinds to a halt. > > With caching, if the search result were cached on each node it passed through, > then the network traffic is just proportional to the number of nodes. Bliss.
Heh. That is what i intended to say. It was my (perhaps mistaken) assumption that data was cached along the return route. That was more of a note to myself whilst I was writing typing this up. Treat that as being "cached in each node". --Adam Lydick -- Freenet -- Re-Wiring the Internet http://freenet.sourceforge.net My Node: tcp/rivendell.yi.org:19114 _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
