I was kidding. Somebody said all their references was to one address, and I grepped my maildir for that address and only you came up. Obviously I didn't think you were.
Just having a large DataStore should not lead to this effect. 'DeCSS would be fine. Where is it?' 'Here,' Montag touched his head. 'Ah,' Granger smiled and nodded. Oskar Sandberg md98-osa at nada.kth.se On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Timm Murray wrote: > A few weeks ago, I was in the freenet chat room and Oscar accused > me of seting up a cancer node, because my node was sucking up > a lot of referances. I didn't know why, at the time. Now I think > I know why: I used to have the node store set at 2 GB. I lowered > this to 500 MB when I installed 0.3.7, but I might still be sucking > up referances. Also note that I have two transient nodes on Win > boxes (at 200 MB apiece) sitting behind this one. > > Peter Todd wrote on 2/17/01 10:25 pm: > > >Someone's noticed this > >before I hope. :) > > > >I've noticed that my node > >consistantly ends up having > >references to only one other > >node. The paticular node > >changes but it's always one > >that is relatively stable. Of > >course if this node goes > >down... No fun. :) Assuming > >other nodes have the same > >behaviour it stands to > >reason that the Freenet > >network is strung out like a > >long string. This could easilly > >be one of the sources of all > >our network problems. > >Freenet probably has tonnes > >of storage space, but a > >crappy network archetecure. > > > > > >My theory for why this is > >happening is quite simple. > >References beget > >references. Nodes tend to > >have huge datastores with > >hundreds of elements in > >them. Therefore we can > >reason that we can > >potentially end up with vast > >numbers of references from > >these nodes. Since nodes > >tend to ask for data from > >nodes with lots of references > >already we get a condition > >where the references to a > >big node crowd out all other > >references. > > > >Now as for a fix. I think we > >should just set a limit on the > >number of references any > >individual node can get to a > >percentage of the total > >number of references. On > >reference add if the number > >of references to the node > > >total references / x fail. x > >should be the number of > >other nodes we want to have > >references too. > > > >I'm currently looking at the > >code trying to figure out > >how to implement this. It's > >really, really simple except I > >don't have the slightest clue > >what most of it does. :) > > > >Now... What should we set x > >to? > > > >-- > >retep at penguinpowered.com > >http://retep.tripod.com > > > >_____________________________ > >__________________ Devl > >mailing list > >Devl at freenetproject.org > >http://www.uprizer.com/mai > >lman/listinfo/devl > > > Timm Murray ----------- Great spirits have allways encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds --Albert Einstein > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://www.uprizer.com/mailman/listinfo/devl > _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://www.uprizer.com/mailman/listinfo/devl
