On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 10:10:55PM -0600, Edgar Friendly wrote: > Ian Clarke <ian at locut.us> writes: > > > We need to get probabilistic caching in the code ASAP - the current > > level of load most nodes are getting is totally disrupting the > > clustering effect from what I have seen in my node's diagnostics. > > Freenet simply won't work properly without this clustering. > > > If there's a problem that's caused by nodes not being able to handle > the load put on them, it seems logical to me to work on making the > nodes more efficient, so they're able to handle the increased load. > (at least until bandwidth is the limiting factor, which I'm pretty > sure it's not.) > > > I propose that we have a fall-off parameter which adjusts how the cache > > probabilty "falls off" as the reply gets further from its source. This > > can be configurable. We can put this functionality in unstable, and > > encourage people to experiment with different parameters. We should see > > increased clustering on those nodes irrespective of whether the rest of > > the network contains that code. > > > Disk space is cheap, I don't see much reason for nodes not to cache > everything they can get their hands on. If they're being asked for > the data, it does no good for them to forward the request somewhere > else because at one time they thought that they weren't responsible > for that data.
You are assuming that all nodes have infinite storage. This is not the case. Most nodes have full datastores. This means that caching one item means throwing another one out. > > > I propose making this the highest priority at this time. > > > > Ian. > > > I see the biggest improvement that can be made is NIO, with bugfixes > and usability improvements coming second. Of course I could be wrong. > > Thelema > -- > E-mail: thelema at swbell.net Raabu and Piisu > GPG 1024D/36352AAB fpr:756D F615 B4F3 BFFC 02C7 84B7 D8D7 6ECE 3635 2AAB -- Matthew Toseland toad at amphibian.dyndns.org/amphibian at users.sourceforge.net Full time freenet hacker. http://freenetproject.org/ Freenet Distribution Node (temporary) at ICTHUS. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20030329/ed48e23a/attachment.pgp>
