On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 03:01:03PM +0200, Costas Dokolas wrote: <> > There is indeed a need to improve speed (try saying that 10 times, fast), > but let's not break freenet, OK?
Let's not get overly dramatic here. Anything like this is a tradeoff: duplicated data creates more work for the network, but so does making ten requests when one would suffice. Clearly having all the data anyone ever wants under a single key isn't a great idea, but then nor is inserting each 256 byte values under a key each (imagine all the data in freenet stored in a single 256 byte datastore!). Our current observations, which are all we have to go by, show that traffic is a larger problem in freenet at the moment then a lack of capacity to store all the data inserted - therefore it makes sense to bundle small pieces of data just like we split very large ones. Unlike Matthew's flooding, I would not characterise this as a pissing-in-your-pants-to-stay-warm feature. -- Oskar Sandberg oskar at freenetproject.org _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
