What you propose is a workaround for the fact that the current load balancing sucks, which would only be of value to nodes which have exceptionally fast internet connections. It is therefore not of any importance IMHO.
On Sunday 20 May 2007 13:19, jarvil at gmail.com wrote: > Hello, > > I proposed an advanced option on the peers (friends) page for high speed > links. > > In the present code, if you increase the outgoing bandwith the peers > inevitably end up in backed off mode as the ones who cannot deal with > the higher throughput backoff the incoming connection. I dont know the > method used for Backed Off values but some basic math tells me that > mode nodes can only receive 10K/s for each connection. Let me explain. > > If you have one node on default setting of 15K/s outgoing bandwith and > 60K/s incoming (4xoutgoing). If a user has 6 connections you have a > max of 10K incoming for each connection. 10K/s is double the speed of > a modem connection and hardly broadband speed. IMHO This severely > limits the speed of freenet. > > What I would like to see is the ability to set individual bandwith on > peers OR designate a peer as high speed which excludes it from the > bandwith management on the normal peers. This would send a message to > the other peer requesting a high speed link which would appear on > their peer listing as request for high speed and the speed requested. > If they agree then the link operates at the new speed sending data at > the maximum speed specified until there is no more data to send. > > Regards > > Jarvil > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl -------------- 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/20070521/9687a400/attachment.pgp>
