[freenet-devl] Crisis - Freenet Reliability and Performance

2001-04-20 Thread David McNab
From: > This causes requests to fail, so people try to fix it > by inserting onto more nodes, thereby making the problem worse. Hmmm, so if 'multiple insertion points' would cause worse problems for the network... Maybe an idea might be to place occasional FNP requests to different random nodes,

[freenet-devl] Crisis - Freenet Reliability and Performance

2001-04-20 Thread Benjamin Coates
>From "David McNab" >Thinking left field, the user can be asked to choose a name, then that name >is sent to inform.php with a "?name=myhostname" arg appended to the >inform.php req. This way, inform.php could also serve as a kind of 'dynamic >IP' sevice. >If one has a static IP or DNS hostname,

[freenet-devl] Crisis - Freenet Reliability and Performance

2001-04-20 Thread David McNab
> Do we even have 100 nodes on the network? Now I'm _really_ getting worried. As I was tossing and turning in bed earlier tonight, contemplating this problem, I thought that the issue might be the opposite - thousands of nodes. I realise I'm still painfully ignorant of Freenet's topology But I w

RE: [freenet-devl] Crisis - Freenet Reliability and Performance

2001-04-20 Thread Benjamin Coates
>From "David McNab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Thinking left field, the user can be asked to choose a name, then that name >is sent to inform.php with a "?name=myhostname" arg appended to the >inform.php req. This way, inform.php could also serve as a kind of 'dynamic >IP' sevice. >If one has a static

[freenet-devl] Crisis - Freenet Reliability and Performance

2001-04-19 Thread David McNab
"Houston, we have a problem..." Freenet's reliability and performance have been suffering terribly at present. I was unaware of the issues till I created a new Windows installation on a fresh partition, and installed a new Freenet on it. While I'm running Freenet from this Windows partition, my

Re: [freenet-devl] Crisis - Freenet Reliability and Performance

2001-04-19 Thread David McNab
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > This causes requests to fail, so people try to fix it > by inserting onto more nodes, thereby making the problem worse. Hmmm, so if 'multiple insertion points' would cause worse problems for the network... Maybe an idea might be to place occasional FNP requests to diff

[freenet-devl] Crisis - Freenet Reliability and Performance

2001-04-19 Thread Stefan Reich

[freenet-devl] Crisis - Freenet Reliability and Performance

2001-04-19 Thread Oskar Sandberg
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 03:44:50AM +1200, David McNab wrote: > > Do we even have 100 nodes on the network? > > Now I'm _really_ getting worried. Well, I think that Fred is working, so clearly we do (it's possible to have 100 htl go by on a smaller network because of backtracking, but still). The

[freenet-devl] Crisis - Freenet Reliability and Performance

2001-04-19 Thread Oskar Sandberg
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:37:08PM +1200, David McNab wrote: > "Houston, we have a problem..." > > Freenet's reliability and performance have been suffering terribly at present. > > I was unaware of the issues till I created a new Windows installation on a > fresh partition, and installed a new

[freenet-devl] Crisis - Freenet Reliability and Performance

2001-04-19 Thread Gianni Johansson
On Thursday 19 April 2001 06:37, David wrote: > > "Houston, we have a problem..." > > Freenet's reliability and performance have been suffering terribly at > present. This isn't the way things look in my world. It seems that reliability is actually getting better. I can find most *new* files mo

[freenet-devl] Crisis - Freenet Reliability and Performance

2001-04-19 Thread Ian Clarke
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:37:08PM +1200, David McNab wrote: > "Houston, we have a problem..." > > Freenet's reliability and performance have been suffering terribly at present. I have observed the opposite. I suspect that the problem may be that your Freenet node will only become efficient at f

Re: [freenet-devl] Crisis - Freenet Reliability and Performance

2001-04-19 Thread Ian Clarke
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:37:08PM +1200, David McNab wrote: > "Houston, we have a problem..." > > Freenet's reliability and performance have been suffering terribly at present. I have observed the opposite. I suspect that the problem may be that your Freenet node will only become efficient at

[freenet-devl] Crisis - Freenet Reliability and Performance

2001-04-19 Thread h...@finney.org
ssage-ID: <3ADF0FC1.CAB29EAD at drjava.de> From: Stefan Reich X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: devl at freenetproject.org Subject: Re: [freenet-devl] Crisis - Freenet Reliability and Performance References: <002a01c0c8bc$af7f0d40$eb

Re: [freenet-devl] Crisis - Freenet Reliability and Performance

2001-04-19 Thread Gianni Johansson
On Thursday 19 April 2001 06:37, David wrote: > > "Houston, we have a problem..." > > Freenet's reliability and performance have been suffering terribly at > present. This isn't the way things look in my world. It seems that reliability is actually getting better. I can find most *new* files m

Re: [freenet-devl] Crisis - Freenet Reliability and Performance

2001-04-19 Thread Oskar Sandberg
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 03:44:50AM +1200, David McNab wrote: > > Do we even have 100 nodes on the network? > > Now I'm _really_ getting worried. Well, I think that Fred is working, so clearly we do (it's possible to have 100 htl go by on a smaller network because of backtracking, but still). The

Re: [freenet-devl] Crisis - Freenet Reliability and Performance

2001-04-19 Thread Stefan Reich
What I'm wondering in this context is... how can we be sure that Freenet isn't fragmented? A few months ago, Gnutella suffered from fragmentation so badly that it was virtually unusable. The main problem was de-facto fragmentation caused by nodes with way too little bandwidth. For Gnutella, it on

Re: [freenet-devl] Crisis - Freenet Reliability and Performance

2001-04-19 Thread hal
As long as everyone keeps inserting everything onto all nodes, the Freenet search algorithm won't work. There will be no way to follow a path to a particular node where the data is stored, if all nodes have approximately the same data. This causes requests to fail, so people try to fix it by ins

Re: [freenet-devl] Crisis - Freenet Reliability and Performance

2001-04-19 Thread David McNab
y. Cheers David - Original Message - From: "Oskar Sandberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 2:53 AM Subject: Re: [freenet-devl] Crisis - Freenet Reliability and Performance > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:37:08PM +1200, David

Re: [freenet-devl] Crisis - Freenet Reliability and Performance

2001-04-19 Thread Oskar Sandberg
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:37:08PM +1200, David McNab wrote: > "Houston, we have a problem..." > > Freenet's reliability and performance have been suffering terribly at present. > > I was unaware of the issues till I created a new Windows installation on a fresh >partition, and installed a new

[freenet-devl] Crisis - Freenet Reliability and Performance

2001-04-19 Thread David McNab
"Houston, we have a problem..."   Freenet's reliability and performance have been suffering terribly at present.   I was unaware of the issues till I created a new Windows installation on a fresh partition, and installed a new Freenet on it. While I'm running Freenet from this Windows partit