It seems that the flood of new users over the past day has caused Freenet some growing pains - it wouldn't surprise me if the network grew 10X or even 20X over the past 15 hours.
Unfortunately this rapid growth has created a storm of announcement messages which appear to be flooding the network, I count 6070 NodeAnnouncements going through my node today, and only 3101 AnnouncementReplies. This means that half of the nodes which announced through me didn't get a response, and will therefore be trying their Announcement again later - given this the overloading is not really that surprising. By comparison there were only 1401 DataRequests, and 83 DataReplies! Presumably the NodeAnnouncements Toad and I had a discussion by phone, and agreed that we should release 0.5.0.1 ASAP which incorporates Oskar's new load balancing code, which may or may not alleviate the problem. Some may ask why we are releasing this code when it is relatively untested, but the problem is that the only way to test it is wide deployment. We must also think about how to modify the announcement behavior so that this doesn't happen the next time Freenet hits the papers (something we can sometimes provoke, but often have no control over). Ian. -- Ian Clarke ian@[freenetproject.org|locut.us|cematics.com] Latest Project http://cematics.com/kanzi Personal Homepage http://locut.us/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20021028/18a019cf/attachment.pgp>
