On Sat, 17 May 2003, Ian Clarke wrote: > I don't think an ugly platform specific kludge is justified just because > a few crazy people try running freenet on really slow machines.
It sounds like you mean 'crazy' to be negative. It would be preferable, surely, to be able to put Freenet on as many machines as possible. So performance for that node suffers? So what? If someone with a slow machine is able to contribute that little bit to Freenet, don't we want to be able to use it? When you consider, as Greg does, CPU-usage based performance as an issue separate from CPU overloading, it starts to make more sense. (To me, anyway.) You're always going to have widely varying specs on fred's environment. My computer is different from your computer is different from anybody's computer. It may be (but is not proven yet) that there won't be a "solution" to CPU overloading. It may be that it makes more sense to give fred a limit based on CPU-load. That would provide for the ability to run in a wider variety of environments, including low-resource machines, and work on performance can continue as well. This makes sense. -todd _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
