On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Ian Clarke (ian at locut.us) wrote: > > > The idea would be that nodes in the network would constantly evaluate > > the overall performance of their neighbors (average response times etc). > > Embedded in their IDs, nodes will have a compact description of their > > settings (randomly chosen at startup, and periodically modified at > > random too). After a while, the top 30% (yet another arbitrary value!) > > can then be averaged, and the user's node can reset its own values to > > those. > > Settings that work well for a node on a Pentium 4 with 2 GB of RAM > and Sun Java on Windows XP Pro, might not work so well on a node on > a Pentium-120 with 128 MB running Kaffe on OpenBSD.
Whatever the other merits/demerits of the idea, the existence of different machine specs, in itself, is not a problem. Factors like JVM used, amount of memory, etc., could be treated as just another setting. The setting-tweaker couldn't change those things, of course, but they could be taken into account. -todd _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
