On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 4:48 AM, alex <alejandro at mosteo.com> wrote: > Evan Daniel wrote: > >> We should consider doing something about time of day effects, though >> I'm not precisely sure what. ?If we insert one day, and then retrieve >> several days later at the same time, I suspect we get a higher success >> rate than if we retrieve later at a different time of day, because a >> more similar set of nodes will be online. > > I pointed to this external website in the past, but I think it's a good time > for a reminder: > > http://crawler.trillinux.org/history.html > > These are the stats for the G2 (bastard child of gnutella) network. I know > that the usage patterns may be different, but I also believe that these > detailed usage pattern stats from another p2p network may be insightful. > > I think that backs pretty well the point raised by Evan that time locality > is of importance. There are also histograms for uptime, an animated map of > hubs around the world... > > Also, in G2, hub nodes are encouraged to stay online, just as users of > freenet are.
Alternately, we could look at stats from Freenet itself :) freenet:USK at gjw6StjZOZ4OAG-pqOxIp5Nk11udQZOrozD4jld42Ac,BYyqgAtc9p0JGbJ~18XU6mtO9ChnBZdf~ttCn48FV7s,AQACAAE/graphs/128 Evan Daniel
