If your node is not running all (or at least most) of the time, setting
"24/7" will not help your performance. What the author of that paper
means is that to have a node that performs well it has to be a permanent
node - not just set to pretend like it is.
Leaving a computer on is only about $40-50 in electricity per year in
most places.
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 07:10:27AM -0700, Reuben Balik wrote:
> No, I mean that I had the 24/7 option in the
> configurator checked.
> --Reuben
> --- Oskar Sandberg <oskar at freenetproject.org> wrote:
> >
> > You are contradicting yourself. If a node only runs
> > for a few hours a
> > day then it is not 24/7 ("Twenty four hours a day,
> > seven days a week".)
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 06:48:19AM -0700, Reuben
> > Balik wrote:
> > > When I first started using freenet 0.4, i ran a
> > 24/7
> > > node until i heard that it was bad for the network
> > > because it only ran for a couple hours a day.
> > When I
> > > switched to transient there was definitly a speed
> > > decrease, so I think it is valid advise. Is this
> > good
> > > for the network, though? If there are a lot of
> > 24/7
> > > nodes only running a few hours a day, will this
> > really
> > > mess stuff up? Otherwise, I'll just start a 24/7
> > node
> > > again.
> > >
> > > --Reuben
> >
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