On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 09:49:17AM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I think when we have applications that explicitly rely on requesting > keys that probably haven't been inserted yet, the proportion of > successful requests is not a good measure of the network's > effectiveness. > > A good measure of the network's effectiveness is to manually insert > keys at one node, and request those keys from another node, > preferably one that is as far as possible from the first in the > network topology, while monitoring the success rate.
That is probably true. But there needs to be a time lag to establish whether there is a problem with the data not keeping up with the location swaps. > > Ian. > > On 26 Apr 2006, at 06:12, Matthew Toseland wrote: > > >With Jogy's new code to show the counts of messages for individual > >nodes, we have some rather depressing statistics once again. > > > >The apparent success rate on CHK requests is pretty bad... 1 in 3 at > >best, 1 in 10 or worse is common... The success rate on SSK > >requests is > >even worse, but that's to be expected as that's mostly Frost. > > > >Possible explanations: > >- Bug in the stats collection. > >- People requesting files that haven't been inserted yet. > >- Perverse network topology. > >- Data not keeping up with location swaps. > >- Load balancing/limiting not working. > > > >Any ideas on how to determine which of the above is correct? Or other > >possible explanations? > > > >Generally feedback has been pretty good... I wonder if this might be > >something like Frost requesting files that haven't been uploaded yet? > >-- > >Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org > >Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ > >ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. > >_______________________________________________ > >Devl mailing list > >Devl at freenetproject.org > >http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (Darwin) > > iD8DBQFET6SQQtgxRWSmsqwRAriSAJ45Z8VxU4PULeXCf2TgdlZ0rygMhACfcxqu > 7bG7Cwf+xAJcuBtlatyHtrs= > =t5U3 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20060426/76968476/attachment.pgp>
