On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 8:03 PM, Ian Clarke <ian at sensearray.com> wrote: > Ok, just noticed that there is a check box for "Compress", but it > seems to have no effect when you upload directly from disk (perhaps it > works if you upload from the browser - but I'm not going to do that > for a file this size). > > Ian. > > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Ian Clarke <ian at sensearray.com> wrote: >> I'm trying to upload a?1.25 GiB?AVI recording of a lecture, and its >> been compressing for over an hour. ?Why is Freenet trying to compress >> files that are already compressed, and why does it take so long? >> >> We need more content in Freenet, its rather discouraging when you try >> to upload something and it uses 100% of your CPU for several hours >> trying to compress something that is probably incompressible.
Are you certain this is what's happening? How much of the time is spent on compression, and how much on FEC encode? Are you certain that the checkbox doesn't work? There is both compression and encoding happening; are you sure the problem isn't as simple as they're both getting the same status message? Weren't you complaining about this earlier? Has anything changed since then? IMHO this is significantly lower priority than data retention, opennet reconnection, and more problematic client-layer bugs. Evan Daniel
