On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 11:13:23PM -0700, Tracy R Reed wrote: > On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 11:25:01AM -0700, Ian Clarke spake thusly: > > > I have friends who are really into bittorrent. bittorrent does not have > > > the problem of data falling out of the network so easily (ie. much more > > > reliable) > > > > This simply isn't true - you can only get data in BitTorrent from people > > who have specifically downloaded the thing you are looking for and who > > leave their client running - Freenet spreads content beyond those that > > are specifically downloading it meaning that data's longevity is likely > > to be much better with Freenet. > > I think it is true that it is more reliable and data doesn't fall out. And > for the very reason you stated: You get the data from people who have > downloaded the content. I am currently having MUCH more trouble retrieving > things with freenet than with bittorrent. > > > No, but you do need to deal with Python, and I haven't heard too many > > reports of trouble from people that can't get Java installed in a while > > now. > > Python came pre-installed on my system and there are no python-vm quirks > or incompatibilities that I am aware of. > > > I have yet to see clear evidence of this and my personal experience is > > that the two are very similar in-terms of speed. I wish someone would > > do a direct comparison. > > They used to be fairly close if you had the memory and cpu power to run a > lot of download threads. Lately freenet has become a dog for splitfiles. > 60 download threads to get 90k/s with freenet makes most other tasks on my > dual 500Mhz PIII with 512M of RAM a bit difficult. Bittorrent can download > at that speed using far less memory and cpu. I would do a direct > comparison but an insert of a test file of any size would take forever. > > > That is strange, I have had no such problems. I think one issue is that > > some download clients (such as Fuqid) default to a 5% heal percentage, I > > believe this should be 100% by default. > > I have tried to get files varying from 30M to a couple hundred meg lately > with little luck. I did have success on one of three such files last > night.
I have downloaded two very large splitfiles on a two week old node, the first time, the other node which is slightly younger seems to be doing okay with a third splitfile. > > -- > Tracy Reed > http://ultraviolet.org -------------- 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/20030523/6ea19779/attachment.pgp>
