Debatable point...

On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 01:13:08AM +0200, Martin Scheffler wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 11. August 2004 00:55 schrieb Michael Kuijn:
> > On Tuesday 10 August 2004 21:41, Steve wrote:
> > > Can it hurt the network if I make my datastore too big?
> >
> > Not really, but enlarging your datastore all the time will prevent
> > specialisation. This isn't real bad, but specialisation improves
> > routing. If I were you I would let it specialise at one point.
> 
> Sorry, but forget that. In Freenet there is no thing like a "one peak" 
> specialisation for more than one minute.
> And when the network can hold more data, it increases the "lifetime" of 
> seldom requested keys.
> Specialization changes over time, anyway.
> 
> The only drawback may be that your "ubernode" becomes popular over time 
> because of more successful replies :-) (much connections increase request 
> ability aswell)
> 
> Routing does not get better when your node has to purge "old" keys on new 
> requests - maybe they are requested just one minute later -> more net 
> load :-(
> 
> good byte



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