We have to balance efficiency with security. What we must avoid at all costs is the entire network becoming dependant on one huge ubernode - or a cluster of nodes all connected together and to few other nodes. Locations must be reasonably well distributed across the network. I do think that slow nodes should get a smaller slice of the keyspace, but very large nodes should not necessarily get very large slices.
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 03:25:20PM -0400, Colin Davis wrote: > Good Afternoon, > > As I understand it, the Freenet project has begun a Summer of Code > project to improve load balancing. I'm interested in seeing how > that's going, what the plans are, and how other people feel is the > best method of ensuring fairness across nodes. > > I recall that about a month ago, Ian started a discussion on tit for > tat rewards to nodes, which rewarded nodes which were more useful to > the network. I'm curious how people feel best to implement such a > system, now that they've had to think on it, and while Michael Rogers > is working on his new code. > > I'm also interested in ideas about how much to utilize highly > developed nodes- I understand that in general, it's better that > things are spread out to as many nodes as possible, but it seems > unoptimal not to max out the bandwidth and CPU of a supernode. If > say, MIT wants to donate a terrabit connection, with 500GB of HD > space, isn't it better that the machine is used? > > As I understand things currently, .7 routing doesn't the speed of > returning a block into consideration when looking at where to request > the next one. This probably isn't as efficient as it should be.. I > understand the need to establish the baselines first, but if we're > discussing how to make load balancing work, I imagine we want to keep > multiple ideas in mind. > > I look forward to hearing how Michael is doing, and to helping to > discuss plans for the future. > > -Colin > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/20060606/ec93d908/attachment.pgp>
